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10. Not, it is not that common to have parties that are 'antithetical' to each other form a
Thu Sep 21, 2023, 07:43 PM
Sep 2023

government, especially here in the core EU nations, and even more so here in the Nordics.

I would never trade the Nordic Model for the US Model.

Massively positive, pro-humanity things (for example universal health care, family leave, free or extreme low cost tertiary education, etc etc) that are considered bog standard normal for most other advanced Western nations are considered radical, are labelled (ludicrously) wild left wing socialism and or (even more ludicrously) Marxist/communist by vast swathes of the American political apparatus and the voters who support those parts' opposition to those things.

It also is so terribly ironic, as those same nefarious forces actually DO support socialism, they support corporate socialism, wherein most profits are kept private, whilst so many monstrously large losses are socialised, fobbed off onto the masses at large.

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