User blog comment:Centrist16/SOMETHING EVERYONE MUST KNOW/@comment-3398633-20150809140026/@comment-3993996-20150809152653

"Most of Europe follows the socialist ideology"

Speaking as someone who lives in Europe and has travelled around most of Europe, I can tell you that's not true. Most Eastern European countries are very right wing, socially and economically. Western Europe varies from more left wing social democracies to more right wing neoliberal economies, although the trend is towards "third way" movements on the left (think Bill Clinton or Tony Blair). Only Scandinavia and Southern Europe remain more "socialist" and actually serve as interesting contrasts in the economic sphere.

Also, don't use the "if it says socialist in the name, it must be socialist!". Whilst that is true in the case of the USSR, the argument makes you look like a poor debater (in a debate an easy rebuttal would be "I guess the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic right?")