The TRUTH About Democratic Socialism from Bernie Sanders + Finnish Ambassador Pekka Lintu

[Lodestar]

[Enthusiast]

1. Finland has it all wrong.

They should start to reward pirates if they want to be more like the greatest country in the world!

They should also make sure their media is in but a few hands. The media should also have no goal of objectivity. Keep the people uninformed!

They also need to embrace profit driven education! That would aid in keeping the people uninformed.

[longship]

2. Finland has it all right. Sisu!

Sisu, a Finnish word which has no literal translation into English. My Finnish mother taught me sisu early in life, at her knee.

If one does not understand sisu, than one does not understand Suomilainens*.

A heart felt R&K.

Sisu!

*Suomi == Finland in Finnish.

[Lodestar]

3. I love these two men.

I love that Bernie invites people like this to come and help us to examine
ourselves as we learn about other countries. We are so insular. How many of
our leaders do things like this?
And the Finnish Ambassador was so accessible and real, not spinning about
how great his country is...explaining the difficulties they've had as well as
the better points. And as Michael Moore's excellent film concludes, many of
these countries have actually come to their own forms of government by
observing America. These are essentially American ideas they've adopted
and enhanced, and yet it seems so foreign to us here because we have
moved so far from this. And in fact our country works very hard to make
sure other leftist countries (especially south america) are brought to heal...especially
if they have something we want.