Sanders points to Denmark and Norway as successful examples of democratic socialism.
College tuition is free is Denmark and Norway.
Tuition Fees & Scholarships
Tuition-Free Universities in Finland, Norway and Germany in 2020 - MastersPortal.com
They also have socialized medicine in Norway and Denmark.
Healthcare in Norway - Wikipedia
Healthcare in Denmark - Wikipedia
Neither Denmark or Norway are socialist countries.
That does not matter. What matters is that they have the policies Sanders wants. Free college, universal healthcare.
And they have not turned into Venezuela.
Uhm, what Sanders isn't telling you is that model is not possible in US.
Let me take few steps back to elaborate. There is socialism already in US, and it's present in every household, and in my own, as well. Both, me and my wife work and earn money we use for better of our family. And what we earn goes from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs. Our kids are enjoying the fruit of socialism in our family, where I as main provider earn most, but spend least. My wife earnings alone could feed the family in case something happen to me and I don't provide, although we would have to cut on some luxuries we enjoy. Kids don't work, they just eat, study, play and enjoy what their parents provided to them.
That kind of socialism works for our little tribe. It simply wouldn't work if we let neighboring little tribe move into our house and enjoy it together with us, especially if they don't provide anything. We could possibly survive feeding two families, but what would happen if third family decide to move in with us? It wouldn't work, it would be unsustainable. I do not have problem providing for my little tribe, but even if I can, I will not accept to provide for other tribes with different mentality, goals, mindsets than mine.
Take Nordic countries as tribes, they all prosper as long they work and provide for their won tribes.They are all homogeneous, with the same mentality, work ethics, goals, and none of them have problem providing for their own. Their schools and healthcare is not free, it is paid by all working people in their tribes and they're all taxes heavily for it. But look what happened when they opened their borders to "refugees" and "economic migrants"? They realize it's not sustainable, they're cutting benefits for their own people in favor to those who they let in. Not to mention increased crimes, rapes, no-go zones, etc.
With leftist policies of "free shit" for everyone, including to those who are illegally here, and open borders, Nordic systems simply cant work here. It hardly works for Americans now, because of those leftist policies, imagine if we expand it?
Again, Nordic countries are not socialist. They have social programs they were willingly paying because they're homogeneous nations. But according to their own news, they're not willing to pay for it anymore. Sanders is Socialist Marxist. He's preaching Denmark and Norway, while he's thinking of Cuba and Venezuela, countries he was praising for decades until not so long ago.