Democratic Primaries

crazytown

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8. Denmark & Sweden are social democratic states

Wed Jun 5, 2019, 10:46 AM

Jun 2019

with a comprehensive welfare system.

Sweden Isn't Socialist
https://reason.com/2019/01/02/sweden-isnt-socialist/

Forgive me for being technical

The only mainstream Democratic Socialist State was a failure: UK Labour 1945+. Most of industry was nationalized, gradually stagnated then was eventually privatized .

Funny how ‘Democratic Socialists’ don’t talk about the UK experience. There was still bombed out sites around London in 1972.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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The Daily Show asks Bernie Sanders what millennials seen in socialism [View all] TexasTowelie Jun 2019 OP

Thankfully, the writers... NurseJackie Jun 2019 #1

Proofreading is fundamental. TexasTowelie Jun 2019 #2

We're lucky on DU people check their posts before they put them up. rgbecker Jun 2019 #3

People, even pros, can't write or use correct grammar, any more. Honeycombe8 Jun 2019 #4

Neither Denmark nor Sweden are the United States. George II Jun 2019 #5

And neither are socialist countries. comradebillyboy Jun 2019 #7

But Sanders repeatedly uses them as examples of whatever he believe (which changes periodically) George II Jun 2019 #9

Denmark & Sweden are social democratic states crazytown Jun 2019 #8

"The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies" brooklynite Jun 2019 #6