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 I'm often asked if I think America is trending toward becoming a European-style social democracy. My answer is: "No, because we already are a European-style social democracy." From the progressivity of our tax code, to the percentage of GDP devoted to government, to the extent of the regulatory burden on business, most of Europe's got nothing on us. 
 
 In 1938—the year my organization, the American Enterprise Institute, was founded—total government spending at all levels was about 15% of GDP. By 2010 it was 36%. The political right can crow all it wants about how America is a "conservative country," unlike, ... 

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– People often ask Arthur Brooks if America is in danger of becoming a European-style social democracy. "My answer is: 'No, because we already are a European-style social democracy,'" the president of the American Enterprise Institute writes in the Wall Street Journal. "The political right can crow all it wants about how America is a 'conservative country' … but at 36%, US government spending relative to GDP is very close to Spain's. And our debt-to-GDP ratio is 103%; Spain's is 68%." Brooks blames three factors: America's left, which "is every bit as focused on growing government" as Europe's; political cronyism, which has showered handouts on favored individuals and industries; and the public's disinterest in politics—"If I don't know who my senator is, I am unlikely to know much about his bridge to nowhere." We need Americans to re-engage. We need Tea Party outrage to "become a permanent part of our political landscape," and drive out "today's noxious brew of leftism, cronyism, and general inaction." Click for Brooks' full column.