If we stop calling it "democratic socialism" and start calling it "compassionate capitalism" will you accept it?
In some ways yes. The capitalism not socialism part. Work for it. Elect persons that don't just talk about infrastructure (Obama) but does something about it. Education is important. I worked for mine and it's paid for. Look at this and no argument. Buy your kid his/her first car, they don't take care of it and wreck it. Yet if they work for it, they appreciate it much more.
The 3 countries are NOT what people think they are. Sweden? You can't even go outside without no go zones, rape. Taxes are out the roof in all, 60% or more. Auto are twice the import cost, Gas is outrageous. You could not get me to live in any of them.
if those 3 countries are so bad why do they claim to be the happiest?
do people who claim to be happy lie?
conservatives claim to be HAPPIER than liberals....
are they lying?
for happy people they sure like to talk about civil war and killing liberals...
is that what makes them happy? killing?
First, off they don't claim to be the happiest. Other people, making up a bunch of subjective statistics, claim they are the happiest.
When you see those research papers, do you really... think about this seriously.... do you really truly believe that they are walking all over Sweden to every town and village and asking every adult "are you happy?".
Do you really believe that? Of course of course of course, no one is doing that.
So where are they getting these statistics from? It's magic. I can prove it to you. Give me whatever ranking you wish to use, to claim they are happier. Show it to me.
Now that said, I'm going to contradict myself.
While I am certain that the happiness index is crap.... and it is...
I actually do in fact believe that over all, that most of those countries are in fact happier. But the problem is, the left-wing wishes to make it about how socialized they are.
In order for that to be true, you have to look at their happiness levels before they had all these socialized system. Reality is, most were generally a happy people before they ever had government run stuff, and welfare benefits.
So why were they happy? I'd suggest it is because they have a very homogeneous society. They don't have much immigration. They have a national religious affiliation. These things that make up community, make people generally happy.
The problem with left-wing thinking, is that it is the bonkers idea that having the same system here, would result in us being happy. Not true. Living a lower standard of living, like they do in those countries, will not make people happy. Having more burdens of taxes, will not make people happy. Having smaller homes, smaller cheaper cars, living on less money, and so on... does not make people happy.
What makes people happy... in part... is having a community with a similar culture. Having cultural values that are shared. Have a religious beliefs that are understood, instead of belittled by those around you. Feeling included, instead of being called deploreables for example. Having people on national TV, not mock you for the way you talk, and not claiming you don't read, and don't know geography.
Things like this, generally don't happen anywhere in the Nordic countries, and they wouldn't happen with or without socialized health care.
Our country could be much happier if people would simply start treating each other with respect, even if they disagreed. There would be no need for any socialism at all, to achieve happiness.
