Would all of your rather have everything under government control?
Considering Christie is pushing NSA powers, almost all frontrunners are pushing for increasingly draconian anti terror laws and have a fetish with what 2 men or woman do in their private time...trying to paint one party as big government happy is silly.
Would you rather be working for next to nothing, while the government takes most of the hard earned money?
Most Americans already are. Income inequality is as high as ever as people are working harder and harder but getting paid less and less. As for larger taxation, if I could trust that the government would use such funds to better the failing infrastructure and troubled education system, I might be slightly less reserved
What about healthcare? It would be bad if I needed to have surgery after suffering from a terminal disease and the doctors told me that I would have to wait a month before I could come back in. That's why so many Canadians come to the U.S. hospitals
We already have Healthcare rationing in the US. If you can afford a treatment, you get one. If not, you don't or you get thrown on a wait list. Even if this didn't exist, if you needed a treatment, and there were only so many doctors around in a private system for that treatment in your area, you're still likely to be put on a wait list. Long waiting times aren't exclusive to single payer systems. The reason you hear about waiting times in other systems is because the government mandates such reports to create efficiency. When waiting times first popped up in Canada in the 90's Parliment spend ungodly amounts of time in session debating on how to improve it, and working out allocations to do so. France for example spends a lot more money than Canada, but less than the United states on healthcare, but its waiting times are incredibly small on average as a result.
As for so many Canadians, if you consider say....around 300-sh by now or so out of 30+ Million "Many" then we have an entirely different definition of what counts as many. The Frasier institute's earlier 42,000 number has long since been discredited by subsequent research given the numerous fallacious methodologies it employed in acquiring that number
This also ignores that the United States also has functioning single payer health systems already. The majority of those hip replacements Todd Akin was talking about last election? You know who gets those? Old people mostly. Do you know what Old people use to get them? Medicare. Do you know what Medicare is? A single payer health system. It's not the only either, the VHA for veterans and SCHIP for uninsured children? Single payer systems.
Democrats support crime
Considering crime rates have been dropping since the 70's. I'd say political parties in general have been doing a decent job of reducing them
Drugs
While Democrats have not done wonders for drug policy, the war on drugs starting with Nixon has done far more damage and created more crime than other policies. Democrats should have ended the war on drugs already if they wanted to do anything about it.
and sometimes even terrorism
This one is actually true, but again, of both parties.
What is the difference between communism and the Democratic party?
The Democratic party isn't interested in Nationalizing ALL private assets and controlling the means of production through societal needs based on the ability of the proletariat to work with the eventual goal of a classless society. Wanting to ensure the American people are cared for and are being paid the proper wages they need to survive without having to worry about having to choose between, school, health or children is vastly different.
They certainly aren't perfect, and I have my own fair share of issues with them. The use of Diplomacy as opposed to wanting to brute our way out of everything however isn't one of them.
