2016-03-04, 03:50 PM
Satellite Wrote:I think you're the one who doesn't understand the difference between social democracy and communism. "Radical things" he's proposing are common sense in countries like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and here in Finland. Care to tell me again why "socialism" is the most terrifying thing, when last time I checked all 4 countries score above USA in metrics like education, healthcare, corruption, human rights etc.?
Yes, your taxes will be a little higher but I would imagine it's also getting expensive dealing with your homeless people problem, paying for 1% of your population that are in jail and spending way more on military than any country on earth while still failing your wars.
Gary Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster said yesterday that Bernie Sanders is what he's been hearing about all his life. He grew up in the USSR and was run out of the country when Putin's thugs beat the pomegranate out of him in an opposition rally. Being Russian myself, I totally agree.
Countries like yours have a ridiculously powerful and broad government, and ridiculously high taxes. You're also forgetting to say that the reason socialism is even remotely feasible in countries like yours is a robust middle class, which has been eroded to near-nothing in the United States and which is a prerequisite for socialism working at all. America not only has a ton of poor, it has the politics of the gutter by which the poor are saluted for sitting on welfare while people who earn a living for hard work are labeled as "privileged" and thereby "oppressors" because they happen to have a good job and have saved up money from working at it. That is not only communist politics, that is WHAT COMMUNISTS USED IN THE 1930S TO ROB MY OWN FAMILY AND SEND THEM TO THE GULAG. My great-granddad died in prison, his wife died in the gulag, and my grandma and her sister were on their own at the ages of 5 and 6 respectively. The "crime" for which they were sentenced was being small business owners. That is what Bernie Sanders really is.
Americans don't want the government deciding everything, Americans don't want ludicrous taxes, and Americans want to keep their earnings in their own wallets. You got Obama parading around Warren Buffett, who is moaning like a whore that he shouldn't pay a lower tax rate than his secretary. Then, the Republicans notice that OBAMA is paying a lower tax rate than HIS secretary, and obviously Obama immediately refuses to donate the difference to charity. Then, Buffett has Burger King buy out Tim Hortons -- so he can dodge taxes easier.
Socialists ARE very very very VERY generous -- with other people's money. You guys don't like your own earnings tanked, but when it's other people being robbed, you're totally fine with it.
Keep your Finnish politics in Finland, and don't pretend we don't know. We're not as stupid as you think.