Why is Denmark the happiest country in the world?

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161. Very small percentage, but yes :)

And yes I am from MA, the former factory-mills mecca and Portuguese fisheries epicenter on the Southcoast. It's actually dad's side that's Irish and Norwegian. And a tiny drop Italian.

Portugal decriminalized all drugs a few years ago, and has apparently been having a successful experiment so far. What is sad is that it seems that the only sensible countries to have learned that fascism is bad are the ones who lived through it. Portugal went socialist after Salazar, while the countries that were occupied by the Nazis learned their lesson big time and largely quit trying to control people's private lives. (Italy is still pretty conservative though nowhere near Mussolini standards. There's just something about having the Vatican literally in your backyard.)

We were never officially "fascist" per se. We've just always held up a big façade that we're a "democracy" (or "free republic&quot , when really we're not. We're an oligarchy without proportional representation. And now we're on our way to becoming "theocracy 'lite'." The U.S. could learn a lot from Portugal about the failed drug war... but that would require us to admit that another country did something right, while we (and thus "American Exceptionalism&quot were -- and still are --

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