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Well, the OP post is completely wrong...that's a fact!.
When you watch Dutch TV, the Dutch son in law of Pelosi is on TV, acting like a non biased contributor while he is just bashing Trump and pushing the Pelosi bias.
Conservatives in the Netherlands, like we were, are still "liberals" in the US if you compare what they stand for.
We discovered that when we moved here. Now we are US conservatives, which is absolutely not comparable to Dutch conservatives.
Therefore, the OP sounds more like he is a liberal.
Well, the OP post is completely wrong...that's a fact!
No, it's not a "fact," it depends on how you define "socialist." As many conservatives here keep telling us, "socialism" is defined as the state owning the means of production. That would make the Netherlands "capitalist," since the state owns little of the means of production.
A heavy state sector and stringent rules does necessarily mean "socialist" if you are defining it as a "socialist-capitalist" dichotomy.
A proof or at least rationalization is needed. The fact that nordic elites, much unlike their American counterparts, are willing to throw a juicier bone from their table to the nordic proles has nothing to do with American drumbeats.
Actually, they don't. Their tax systems are FAR less progressive than that in the US, with most actually being downright regressive. That is, in their countries, the tax burden is placed more on the middle class and low-income earners than on the elites.
Only far gone victims of talk radio and Fox or compound dwelling types would call those countries "socialist".
...or anyone who disagrees with me politically, or pronounces Trump's name correctly, or has ever owned a gun, etc, etc...
We get it. Anyone to the Right of Lenin and his internationalist-communism ideal is a "compound dweller" and "not a socialist". What insightful, accurate stuff.
Anyone who knows Norway knows they used to be a country of poor farmers. It was so poor that it wasnt even a target during WWII.
Tell that to my mom who grew up on an island outside of Bergin where the Germans took their cows and practically anything else worth anything. She could see the pilots in the planes when they flew over. Norway was one of the first country's to fall under German occupation!
BTW, she can't stand Norway's healthcare. Much prefers the healthcare here. Old school immigrant who is 100% American when asked.
Actually, they don't. Their tax systems are FAR less progressive than that in the US, with most actually being downright regressive. That is, in their countries, the tax burden is placed more on the middle class and low-income earners than on the elites.
They do. Just 100 years ago
Nordic countries had gilded age American levels of inequality and poverty.
Nordic model focuses on economic security, efficiency, and productivity and believes they are connected. Lakey contrasts this to the U.S. economy model based on insecurity, high unemployment, and fear of poverty and hunger. Nordic elites do not behave as parasites pushing lower classes against the wall of necessity to squeeze a buck. That is the main difference, everything else is just a technicality.
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