Around the world, Americans are often maligned as self-serving, ignorant, and conservative. Yet Americans are generally a progressive people.
Public opinion research tells the story:
- Most Americans favor creating a federal universal single payer health care system.
- Most support trade policies based not on property rights, but human rights, environmental protection, and popular sovereignty.
- Majorities believe that the U.S. should not act as the “world’s police force,” and large majorities support the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
- Americans, by and large, believe that access to quality education is a basic right, and are willing to raise taxes to pay for it.
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~ Ben Manski is a Wisconsin attorney and the executive director of Liberty Tree