I\u2019ll be interested to hear Conservatives denigrate the Scandinavian countries. Surely, they can find a white supremacist who mourns the good old days before immigrants ruined everything. <\/p>\n
What Sanders means by ‘democratic socialism.’ (You still have your choice of pajamas.)<\/a>, The Washington Post, John Wagner<\/p>\n the longest-serving independent in Congress asked how many of the students were familiar with the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Finland and Norway. <\/p>\n \u201cAre these democratic societies? Obviously they are,\u201d Sanders said, relaying that voter turnout in Denmark tends to approach 90 percent. <\/p>\n \u201cIs it a society where the government owns every mom-and-pop store?\u201d he asked. \u201cOf course not. You have all kinds of capitalist entrepreneurship going on, a lot of wealth being created. But what else do you have? \u2026 An effort to make sure that all people benefit from the wealth that\u2019s being created. So you have a much more equitable distribution of wealth and income. \u2026 I talked to a guy from Denmark, and he said, \u2018In Denmark, it is very hard to become very, very rich, but it\u2019s pretty hard to be very, very poor.\u2019 And that makes a lot of sense to me.\u201d <\/p>\n In Denmark, Sanders said, health care is a right, and college education is free. \u201cSounds like a very terrible form of government,\u201d he said sarcastically.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n What Sanders means by ‘democratic socialism.’ (You still have your choice of pajamas.)<\/a><\/p>\n More likely, Conservatives are simply apoplectic over the notion of it being difficult to become very, very rich (and ever more so under their policies).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ll be interested to hear Conservatives denigrate the Scandinavian countries. Surely, they can find a white supremacist who mourns the good old days before immigrants ruined everything. What Sanders means by ‘democratic socialism.’ (You still have your choice of pajamas.), The Washington Post, John Wagner the longest-serving independent in Congress asked how many of the … Continue reading What Sanders means by ‘democratic socialism.’<\/span> \n