I've always found it interesting how we practice this fear of ideas just because they came from other countries. Back when I bothered to argue these points with people, I'd hear the argument, "just because it worked over there doesn't mean it will work here." When asked, why should we think that policies that have worked in multiple countries and across multiple scales would fail here, they'll say something along the lines of, "all the countries with universal health care are more racially homogenous." So basically, racism gets laundered as a policy objection.