Bad faith questions don't require answers, Steven.

1. You start with the false premise, putting words in my mouth by saying Europe is a paradise of the satisfied proletariat. I write strongly to the opposite effect.

2. 2. You then try for an apple-to-oranges argument by saying "Europe's population is shrinking," knowing full well that all the corporatist and fascist-leaning nations like Spain and Russia and Germany and Greece and Moldova are declining, but the more progressive countries are actually growing.

Consider: The US population grew by 0.38% this year.

Meanwhile, Iceland grew by 0.97%, Norway by 0.80%, Sweden by 0.74%, and Denmark by 0.44%.

In other words, some progressive countries are growing nearly a twice as fast as America.

(Now imagine how fast they'd be growing if those countries weren't northern frozen wastelands!)

The point of the article remains: America is on a crash course with oligarchy and corporate tyranny unless America jubilees, bans interest/rent-seeking, invests democratically, and/or taxes the hyper-elites. Pretty soon, no one will be moving to America. They'll be fleeing like they are from every other corporatist nation.