[Dahoser]

A few too many Tide Pods munchouts and snorted condoms would be my guess for Elizabeth Bruenig's impaired reasoning faculties.

[WayneS]

On the above view, the United States was always doomed to merely marginal achievements where justice, equality and freedom are concerned.

The problem here is this writer's, and the rest of the "progressive" left's, definitions of justice, equality and freedom.

To a person who supports a republican form of government (as guaranteed by our Constitution):

Justice means being treated the same under the law as everyone else, not being given special treatment because of one's 'victim' status.

Equality means being guaranteed equality of opportunity, not being guaranteed equality of outcome.

Freedom means being free to pursue by one's own efforts the trappings of a good and happy life, not having the government give one free stuff it has seized from the people who earned it.

[HotHunt]

This author sounds more like a green-wet-behind-the-ears, naive-about-ways-of-the-world dreamer, instead of some old wrinkled, grizzled socialist liberal coot like Hillary.

Whichever she is, socialism has never worked anywhere in the history of the world, ever. Ever. Norway included.

Does anybody remember a TV program on several years ago where Oprah was in Norway, I think it was, traveling and seeing the people and making commentary.

She just gushed over Norway's socialistic society. Everybody get everything for free al la Bernie's plan.

She was in some locals' home interviewing them when she asked the question, why was their home so spartan? Lacking in things that Americans have in their homes. Sparse almost.

The woman she was interviewing told her straight out, that they wanted many things but couldn't afford them because their taxes were so high, that they didn't have any discretionary income left to over to buy anything but the necessities.

Oops!

I never saw a big, fat black woman end an interview so fast and leave, moving on to some other subject as Oprah did. Not the answer she was expecting.

[VTenigma]

The United States could have Nordic-style welfare programs, too

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Right before the entire world crashes and burns like Venezuela.

[sergeantdave]

Looks like poor Elizabeth Bruenig is having a millennial mid-life crisis at the age of 27. In 10 more years, she’ll be a client for meals-on-wheels and checking out nursing homes featuring yoga and safe places in broom closets and boiler rooms.

[exDemMom]

And yet, we do, somehow, manage to have some nice things: Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, universal public schools.

Poor little girl. She does not understand that the purpose of these programs is to create dependency on the government. People who buy into the promises of these programs tend not to prepare for their own futures, and then when they figure out that these programs give them barely anything, it is too late to go back and prepare. At that point, they vote for the politicians they perceive are taking care of them, who tell them that if they vote Republican, even their crumbs will be taken away.