CFM (02-18-2020), Eagle_Eye (02-16-2020), Life is Golden (02-21-2020), Saudade (02-18-2020), USFREEDOM911 (02-16-2020)
Next time you hear a JPP lib tout the Scandinavian model of socialism, point out the truth here.
https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-of...ian-socialism/The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism
The Scandinavians embrace a brand of free-market capitalism that exists in conjunction with a large welfare state, known as the “Nordic Model,” which includes many policies that democratic socialists would likely abhor.
For example, democratic socialists are generally opponents of global capitalism and free trade, but the Scandinavian countries have fully embraced these things. The Economist magazine describes the Scandinavian countries as “stout free-traders who resist the temptation to intervene even to protect iconic companies.” Perhaps this is why Denmark, Norway, and Sweden rank among the most globalized countries in the entire world. These countries all also rank in the top 10 easiest countries to do business in.
How do supporters of Bernie Sanders feel about the minimum wage? You will find no such government-imposed floors on labor in Sweden, Norway, or Denmark. Instead, minimum wages are decided by collective-bargaining agreements between unions and employers; they typically vary on an occupational or industrial basis. Union-imposed wages lock out the least skilled and do their own damage to an economy, but such a decentralized system is still arguably a much better way of doing things than having the central government set a one-size-fits-all wage policy that covers every occupation nationwide.
In a move that would be considered radically pro-capitalist by young Americans who #FeelTheBern, Sweden adopted a universal school choice system in the 1990s that is nearly identical to the system proposed by libertarian economist Milton Friedman his 1955 essay, “The Role of Government in Education.”
CFM (02-18-2020), Eagle_Eye (02-16-2020), Life is Golden (02-21-2020), Saudade (02-18-2020), USFREEDOM911 (02-16-2020)
Carefull what you ask for huh ?
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
MAGA MAN (02-16-2020)
The rightwing spent a decade calling Barack Obama a socialist.
And who exactly were conservatives talking about when they whined for decades about the socialist western European nations?
If Obama is a socialist, then Norway is a veritable Marxist-Leninist state
By the standard metrics used, Norway is more socialist than Venezuela or Communist China.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...73#post3417773
Charoite (02-16-2020)
AProudLefty (02-18-2020), Charoite (02-16-2020), Phantasmal (02-16-2020), StoneByStone (02-16-2020)
OP failure. We aren't naive enough to let the conservative fickle flop routine pass.
The argument distills down to the American model that creates an extremely wealthy class and a permanent poor class the supports them, or a country that provides healthcare and safety nets for the people. If you agree that tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations makes America a better country,then you are a Trumpian Repub. This election, at least in debate,is about whether we need another 4 years of moving the profits created by workers to the top. We need to slash the programs that defend the poor and middle class. We need to end environmental protections. We need to take away the public lands and allow corporations to exploit them.
It is Republicans themselves who have spent careers calling western Europe socialist >>
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...19#post2926319
Sailor (02-18-2020)
Nordberg (02-17-2020)
So we have dark soul approving the mixed social and economic system of Scandinavia.
Darksoul must be a leftist
Russian trolls and their supporters go on Ignore, automatically: no second chance.
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