Mystery:Why is England More Liberal than the United States?

Reasons for why England is substantially more liberal than the United States include:

• lack of federalism and decentralized government in England, thereby enabling a handful of liberals to exercise more influence and centralized power
• England lacks socially conservative intellectuals, perhaps due to its atheistic-controlled university system
• workers unions are far more powerful in England than in the United States
• gun control dominates England -- negating a healthy attitude of self-defense -- in contrast with the United States
• people in England actually believe in the theory of evolution, unlike most of the United States
• churches have been in sharp decline in England, causing people to worship government instead
• a state-run church that became a social bureaucracy over time
• lack of freedom of speech that fully protects criticism of public officials and everyone else
• the United States began as a rebellion against liberalism in England, both when the colonies were settled and by the American Revolution
• The welfare state in England is so thoroughly entrenched and used by people dependent on the government that any attempt by a conservative to reform it is met with hostility.
• England has never been as isolationist as the US and participates more in liberal-leaning groups like the European Union where it could be influenced. The US's characteristic way of being different allows for a more conservative view point.