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Lol okay if they are not socialist and Bernie is modeling their policies how is Bernie a socialist?No, Comrade Billy, they aren't socialist countries and it isn't normal Americans who try to put lipstick on that "free" stuff pig but rather life's losers who just can't come to grips with what it is and how it destroys economies and people:On the one hand, a liberal would say to a republican that we know socialism works because the Scandinavian countries' brand of socialism works. Repubs then say "those aren't socialist countries! They have private economies"
Um okay. They are socialist countries even though they have private economies. Those concepts don't have to be conflicting. They get that, right?
However, republicans will call those nations socialist depending on the context of the conversation.
A republican will say in a different conversation that Bernie shouldn't be elected because he is a dirty socialist who will turn the US into Venezuela. A liberal defending Bernie Sanders will say "No, Bernie doesn't want to end the private market system. He just wants to institute socialist policies that would require the population at large to benefit from the current overall system that we have. He also thinks healthcare and other critical institutions should be socialized or remain socialized. The Scandinavian nations have these same policies"......in response the republican says "THAT'S JUST LIKE VENEZUELA!"
No, it isn't.
so·cial·ism
/ˈsōSHəˌlizəm/
noun
- a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
- (in Marxist theory) a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism.