[JPJones]

A lot of “conservatives” are race-blind, as well, so they don’t see how well socialism works in white countries like “Norway or Denmark, with small populations who regard themselves as members of a large extended family. Even in white Britain (I lived there in the 1970s) there were some successful socialist experiments built around social solidarity.

Now, when you mix this model with a place with multiple, hostile tribes, religions, classes or ethnicities and average IQs of 90 or less, what you get is not Norway - you get Rwanda, or Kosovo, or Cambodia.”

Or Venezuela.

Interesting. I always believed that Norway did well not because of its system, but because of its samll population and enormous oil reserves.

Watching Venezuela’s decline into 3rd world status, I threw that theory out the window, your’s fits better.

[Jim Noble]

Yes, I meant to include Venezuela.

Bernie-socialists are living in the wrong century. The 20th Century was the century of ideology.

The 21st century is the century of the blood.

[Jim Noble]

I always believed that Norway did well not because of its system, but because of its samll population and enormous oil reserves.

Yes, but socialism of one type or another is popular and successful in Denmark, Holland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Austria, and none of them have oil reserves. What they DO have is a single tribe each with pale skin and blue eyes.