Posted on 09/19/2015 7:00:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
So what does that mean? Sanders asked the students. Does anyone here think Im a strong adherent of the North Korean form of government? That I want all of you to be wearing similar colored pajamas?
Is it a society where the government owns every mom-and-pop store? he asked. Of course not. You have all kinds of capitalist entrepreneurship going on, a lot of wealth being created. But what else do you have? An effort to make sure that all people benefit from the wealth thats being created. So you have a much more equitable distribution of wealth and income. I talked to a guy from Denmark, and he said, In Denmark, it is very hard to become very, very rich, but its pretty hard to be very, very poor. And that makes a lot of sense to me.
In Denmark, Sanders said, health care is a right, and college education is free
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Sanders acknowledged the Scandinavian countries he cited are no utopias. But he asked his audience to compare how secure people are there compared to here.
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So what democratic socialism means to me," he said, "is having a government which represents all people, rather than just the wealthiest people, which is most often the case right now in this country. And it is making sure that all of our people have health care as a right, education as a right, decent housing as a right, child care as a right. Thats what I believe.
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Democratic Socialism. The politboro meets, and votes (democratically) how many loaves of bread the average grunt gets in a year.
He’s just a crazy old bastard. Nothing more.
Oh but the people commenting at WaPo are enthusiastic over the Sanders.
They seem to believe that government will no longer be “the hammer of the ruling class” after his plans are all implemented.
DemocRATic socialist = Communist.
National socialist = Nazi.
What he wants is a country run by liberal elitists who are above the law.
He has forgotten — if he ever knew — that the founding principal of this nation is Liberty.
Whether or not it works in Denmark is a separate issue. But let’s pretend that it does work in Denmark. Denmark is a very small (<6M people), quite homogenous (88% Danish origin) society. The US is as different from that as can be. There is no reason to believe that a system that works in Denmark can be transplanted to the US and work. To state it bluntly: Newark, Baltimore, St Louis, etc ain’t gon’ be playing nice.
Simplest and best definition.
We have that now. So why elect him? Is his brand of socialism more benevolent? He says health care is a right, education is a right, food and shelter is a right. Where do the rights stop? Do I have a right to a car? Great! I’ll take a Ferrari.
We’ve already run out of OPM.
Bernie is a liar. He’s not a socialist, he’s an anti-capitalist. If the media, and anyone else who gives a damn was being honest, we’d call him a collectivist. If he had his way, we’d absolutely be pursuing a communist system at 100 mph.
Anyone who votes for a socialist always thinks they are one of the deserving. They never think about the person next to them eying their wallet.
They want all the profits and to tell you what you can or cannot do, but they don’t want to run it or take it away...there would be nothing left to loot.
Good gracious — it is the Pajama Boy family!
Socialism can be made to work in small homogeneous nations where all, or almost all, regard themselves as members of a large extended family.
That’s not the USA.
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