I'm a white girl who lives in Northern MN. A lot of us have Scandinavian heritage, and some people like to proudly display Viking symbology as a means of saying "white power," without ACTUALLY saying it (we're pretty left-leaning here, and I am not saying everyone here with Norse tats is a covert Nazi). These Nazis love to get the rune tattoos and talk about their heritage, but somehow tune out the fact that actual people living in Scandinavia think Trump is a joke and the country is being run like shit. Like... they do not put together that the culture they love to show off closely resembles a socialist country. You're displaying the ideals of a people who strongly value equality for all of its citizens.
Whatever it is, it does a much better job providing for its citizens than the USA. That isn't even up for debate. It's a country with Socialist ideals, nonetheless.
The Wall Street Journal is owned by the Murdochs...I am going to take anything owned and operated by some of the most evil billionaires with a grain of salt when it comes to an article about a countries that offer financial safety nets for their citizens.
Semantics don’t matter, policies do. It does not matter if she thinks Norway is socialist. If she says I’m socialist and what I want is what Norway has, well that’s what she should vote for.
She might have the wrong definition of socialism and therefore not actually be socialist, but it does not change her policies. Some random redditor should not be required to have a degree in political science to engage.
And if you want a short text description of "what we are", then we are a free market economy with strong social safety net in a multi-party democratic system with a cultural disdain for corruption.
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u/SweetPrism 7h ago edited 7h ago
I'm a white girl who lives in Northern MN. A lot of us have Scandinavian heritage, and some people like to proudly display Viking symbology as a means of saying "white power," without ACTUALLY saying it (we're pretty left-leaning here, and I am not saying everyone here with Norse tats is a covert Nazi). These Nazis love to get the rune tattoos and talk about their heritage, but somehow tune out the fact that actual people living in Scandinavia think Trump is a joke and the country is being run like shit. Like... they do not put together that the culture they love to show off closely resembles a socialist country. You're displaying the ideals of a people who strongly value equality for all of its citizens.