The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(01-29-2020, 07:52 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-29-2020, 12:59 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(01-28-2020, 06:26 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-28-2020, 02:11 PM)David Horn Wrote: Pick any Scandinavian country.  Given the lousy weather and limited resources (Norway has oil, but that's about it these days), they all do very well.  Are there discontents?  Of course -- they're everywhere.  The big difference: most of the country is OK with high taxes for great benefits.  I don't see the Norwegians running the social democrats away so they can go hard capitalist.  The same applies in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland.

I don't see the social Democrats in those countries allowing their people to have the freedom do that either.

Based on what?  What freedoms do they lack?  Here's an article by two Americans who moved to Finland for work and decided to stay.

Well, I don't know what's wrong with Brooklyn (the place that the couple gave up on and left) or what the cost of their entitlement package or the overall quality of their healthcare system compared to mine either Also, I don't know why they chose to move to another country vs choosing to move to a more affordable state within the US either. Oh well, to each their own, I wish them well. Dave, I don't care if you and other liberals   flock to Scandinavia or some other laid back European country. It's your right to do so and it would be a much faster to get the kind system that you prefer and seem to believe in too.

If you actually read the article, they answered many of your questions.  They didn't intend to stay, even though on of them had ancestral ties to Finland.  Once there, and immersed in the country, they found it a wonderful, if cold and often dark, place to live.  It's like having a huge extended family that supports each other.  You get to keep less for yourself at times, but the rest of the family is there to help when you need it.  That's the essence of social democracy.