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Sorry, Liberals, Scandinavian Countries Aren’t Utopias (Video)

Monday, February 22, 2016 16:58
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When Bernie Sanders supporters are reminded that everywhere Socialism has ever been tried it’s been an abject failure, they are quick to point out that Bernie is a “Democratic Socialist,” as if somehow that’s better. First, to be fair, its not right to say “Socialism is a failed ideology.” 

Building an extension on home that has a crack in the foundation is a failure. Trying to run a mile in under 6:00, and finishing in over 8:00 is a failure. On a history test, getting one question right out of ten would be a failure, and something liberals ought to know a lot about while we’re on the subject… 

No, Socialism is not failure, because Socialism is responsible for the deaths of over 100,000,000 human beings over the last century. No, Socialism is a lie, and it’s like an infectious disease on the uninformed idiots of humanity who welcome its horrors with open arms. It prevents innovation, mass produces inferiority, and stifles growth of all kind.  

Bernie wants to be just like Sweden; well how does Bernie feel about Swedish Police admitting that their “open border” policy has resulted in 53 “No-Go Zones” controlled by Muslims that are SO dangerous, neither police nor anyone else dares to enter. Watch the video below:

Sweden – 53 Muslim Area Police Dare Not Enter

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Next, this whole matter of Bernie being a “Democratic Socialist” is just a play on words. Socialism is Socialism, and it DOES NOT work, end of story. However, let’s play make-believe like liberals seem to prefer over living in reality. Let’s talk about what “Democratic Socialism” would be for a minute, if such a thing existed. A very simple argument can be made that if a perfect “Democratic Socialism” existed, it would be infinitely worse than what we now think of as “Socialism” as spread by people like Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and China’s Mao. 

Because we live in a global economic society today, true “theoretical socialism” of any kind is not possible, because no nations (developed ones anyway), are able to produce everything they need internally (least of all the United States). Therefore, in Socialistic states, there has always been an elite oligarchy that exists, that oligarchy is usually the class from which government is made up, and the overwhelming majority of people in that class are well educated. That’s not my opinion, look around the globe. That setup accomplisheds two things: 1) Makes sure the oligarchy maintains their wealth while everyone else “pays their fair share”; and 2) Makes sure the people “paying their fare share” never get educated enough to be a threat. 

A “Pure Democracy” is often referred to as a mobocracy, because if such a thing did exist in its purest form, it wouldn’t last long. Why?  Because a “Pure Democracy” is a very EXTREME form of government. It excludes the possibility of representative democracy, and it it excludes protections offered in forms of government like the ours which have a Bill of Rights. In a pure democracy every individual would have to vote on every policy issue brought up to the governing body. Representatives are necessary since it allows everyone to go about their daily lives without interruption. 

Let’s use an example: Regardless of whether people vote themselves on every issue, or through elected representatives, in a democracy, if the majority wanted to execute any religious group that commited a crime, they would simply pass a statute saying as much. You see, in a “democracy,” majority rules, so in a “democracy” it’s VERY dangerous to be in minority group. For more on this topic, check out: Is the U.S. a Democracy or a Republic?

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER CROWD?

DO YOU WANT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM, OR A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC?

Regardless of your party affiliation, all of us can probably agree that the overwhelming number of Americans are NOT well educated. So, if we instituted “Democratic Socialism” here in the United States, we’d have whichever side has the bigger number of idiots getting to decide the laws that we all have to live by, regardless of that group’s lack of actual knowledge on the issues, and regardless of how harmful their laws may be to minority groups.

In the video below, Peter Schiff explains how Obama got re-elected in 2012, and as you’ll see from the video, it’s bad enough in our republican (small “r”) form of government here in the U.S., where we have representative government and a Bill of Rights protecting us from the horrors of Socialism. The LAST thing we need is majority rule. Be sure to watch the whole 5 minutes. It’s well worth it. 

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Let’s continues to play pretend though, because liberals like it so much. Let’s pretend there were no horrors to speak of, and all that we knew about Socialism was what we see in the Scandinavian countries. Can anyone reading this name three things they use daily and could not live without that come from any of the Scandinavian countries? Can anyone think of what world leading innovations have come from any of the Scandinavian countries? What economic markets are any of the Scandinavian countries leading in? Yeah… that’s what I thought. NONE! Now ask those same questions about the U.S.

CAPITALISM AND THE FREE MARKET CREATED ALL THAT YOU KNOW!

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The constant comparison by Bernie and his liberal ilk between the United States and a bunch of underachieving countries with a MUCH lower standard of living than we have here the U.S. is utterly asinine. First, the average family home in Sweden (the country Bernie wants to be so much like) is 825 square feet, or about 1/3 the size of the average home in America. Thought you and your siblings didn’t have enough room growing up? Now remove 2/3 of that space. Second, as you’ll see in the video below, open borders and the welfare state CANNOT co-exist. Anyone informed on the issue knows as much. Anyone saying otherwise is duping people for an ulterior motive (uh, like getting elected?!?!?!) 

In the first video, watch what open borders creates:

Refugee Invasion

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In the second video, Nobel Prize-winning economist and liberty advocate Milton Friedman is often cited in support of the claim that open borders is incompatible with the modern welfare state. Once again, those saying otherwise are duping people for an ulterior motive (uh, like getting elected?!?!?!). Watch and learn, not from me, but from a Nobel Prize-winning economist and liberty advocate! 

Nobel Prize Winner – Open Border and Welfare CANNOT Work

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You saw in the first video, that Swedish Police have admitted their “open border” policy has resulted in 53 “No-Go Zones” controlled by Muslims that are SO dangerous, neither police nor anyone else dares to enter. Understand something: The population (as estimated by the World Factbook in July of 2014) of all of the Nordic countries combined—Denmark (5,569,077), Finland (5,268,799), Iceland (317,351), Norway (5,147,792), and Sweden (9,723,809)—is roughly equal to the population of Texas. Those countries have ENORMOUS problems as a result of their failed polices. Imagine that now with 320 MILLION PEOPLE!

 

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Want proof that the liberal social-democratic society works?

Look to Denmark, the country that routinely leads the world in happiness surveys. It’s also notable for having the highest taxes on Earth, plus a comfy social safety net: Child care is mostly free, as is public school and even private school, and you can stay on unemployment benefits for a long time. Everyone is on an equal footing, both income-wise and socially: Go to a party and you wouldn’t be surprised to see a TV star talking to a roofer.

The combination of massive taxes and benefits for the unsuccessful means top and bottom get shaved off: Pretty much everyone is proudly middle class. Danes belong to more civic associations and clubs than anyone else; they love performing in large groups. At Christmas they do wacky things like hold hands and run around the house together, singing festive songs. They’re a real-life Whoville.

In the American liberal compass, the needle is always pointing to places like Denmark. Everything they most fervently hope for here has already happened there.

So: Why does no one seem particularly interested in visiting Denmark? (“Honey, on our European trip, I want to see Tuscany, Paris, Berlin and . . . Jutland!”) Visitors say Danes are joyless to be around. Denmark suffers from high rates of alcoholism. In its use of antidepressants it ranks fourth in the world. (Its fellow Nordics the Icelanders are in front by a wide margin.) Some 5 percent of Danish men have had sex with an animal. Denmark’s productivity is in decline, its workers put in only 28 hours a week, and everybody you meet seems to have a government job. Oh, and as The Telegraph put it, it’s “the cancer capital of the world.”

So how happy can these drunk, depressed, lazy, tumor-ridden, pig-bonking bureaucrats really be?

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Let’s look a little closer, suggests Michael Booth, a Brit who has lived in Denmark for many years, in his new book, “The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia” (Picador).

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“The Almost Nearly People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia”

by Michael Booth (Picador)

Those sky-high happiness surveys, it turns out, are mostly bunk. Asking people “Are you happy?” means different things in different cultures. In Japan, for instance, answering “Yes” seems like boasting, Booth points out. Whereas in Denmark, it’s considered “shameful to be unhappy,” newspaper editor Anne Knudsen says in the book.

Moreover, there is a group of people that believes the Danes are lying when they say they’re the happiest people on the planet. This group is known as “Danes.”

“Over the years I have asked many Danes about these happiness surveys — whether they really believe that they are the global happiness champions — and I have yet to meet a single one of them who seriously believes it’s true,” Booth writes. “They tend to approach the subject of their much-vaunted happiness like the victims of a practical joke waiting to discover who the perpetrator is.”

Danes are well aware of their worldwide reputation for being the happiest little Legos in the box. Answering “No” would be as unthinkable as honking in traffic in Copenhagen. When the author tried this (once), he was scolded by his bewildered Danish passenger: “What if they know you?” Booth was asked.

That was a big clue: At a party, the author joked, it typically takes about eight minutes for people to discover someone they know in common. Denmark is a land of 5.3 million homogeneous people. Everyone talks the same, everyone looks the same, everyone thinks the same.

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This is universally considered a feature — a glorious source of national pride in the land of humblebrag. Any rebels will be made to conform; tall poppies will be chopped down to average.

The country’s business leaders are automatically suspect because of the national obsession with averageness: Shipping tycoon Maersk McKinney Moller, the richest man in the country before his death in 2012, avoided the national shame of being a billionaire by being almost absurdly hoi polloi. He climbed stairs to his office every day, attended meetings until well into his 90s and brown-bagged his lunch.

An American woman told Booth how, when she excitedly mentioned at a dinner party that her kid was first in his class at school, she was met with icy silence.

One of the most country’s most widely known quirks is a satirist’s crafting of what’s still known as the Jante Law — the Ten Commandments of Buzzkill. “You shall not believe that you are someone,” goes one. “You shall not believe that you are as good as we are,” is another. Others included “You shall not believe that you are going to amount to anything,” “You shall not believe that you are more important than we are” and “You shall not laugh at us.”

Richard Wilkinson, an author and professor who published a book arguing for the superiority of egalitarian cultures, told Booth, “Hunter-gatherer societies — which are similar to prehistoric societies — are highly egalitarian. And if someone starts to take on a more domineering position, they get ridiculed or teased or ostracized. These are what’s called counter-dominance strategies, and they maintain the greater equality.”

So Danes operate on caveman principles — if you find it, share it, or be shunned. Once your date with Daisy the Sheep is over, you’d better make sure your friends get a turn. (Bestiality has traditionally been legal in Denmark, though a move to ban it is under way. Until recently, several “bestiality brothels” advertised their services in newspapers, generally charging clients $85 to $170 for what can only be termed a roll in the hay.)

They need a drink

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The flip side of the famous “social cohesion” is that outsiders are unwelcome. Xenophobic remarks are common. At gatherings, the spirit of “hygge” — loosely translated as cozy — prevails. It’s considered uncouth to try to steer the conversation toward anything anyone might conceivably disagree about. This is why even the Danes describe Danes as boring.

In addition to paying enormous taxes — the total bill is 58 percent to 72 percent of income — Danes have to pay more for just about everything. Books are a luxury item. Their equivalent of the George Washington Bridge costs $45 to cross. Health care is free — which means you pay in time instead of money. Services are distributed only after endless stays in waiting rooms. (The author brought his son to an E.R. complaining of a foreign substance that had temporarily blinded him in one eye and was turned away, told he had to make an appointment.) Pharmacies are a state-run monopoly, which means getting an aspirin is like a trip to the DMV.

Other Scandinavian countries (Booth defines the term broadly, to include Nordic brethren Iceland and Finland in addition to Denmark, Sweden and Norway) raise other questions about how perfect the nearly perfect people really are. Iceland’s famous economic boom turned out to be one of history’s most notorious real estate bubbles. A common saying in Denmark about Icelanders: They wear shoes that are too big for them, and they keep tripping over the shoelaces.

The success of the Norwegians — the Beverly Hillbillies of Europe — can’t be imitated. Previously a peasant nation, the country now has more wealth than it can spend: Colossal offshore oil deposits spawned a sovereign wealth fund that pays for everything.

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Finland, which tops the charts in many surveys (they’re the least corrupt people on Earth, its per-capita income is the highest in Western Europe and Helsinki often tops polls of the best cities), is also a leader in categories like alcoholism, murder (highest rate in Western Europe), suicide and antidepressant usage.

Their leading filmmaker, Aki Kaurismaki, makes features so “unremittingly morose they made [Ingmar] Bergman look like Mr. Bean,” reports Booth.

Finnish etiquette demands little in the way of conversation (the men, especially, speak as if being charged by the syllable) but much in the way of alcohol abuse. It’s considered poor form to leave the party when there is anything left in a bottle. Although their overall alcohol consumption is near the European average, they binge-drink more than almost any other country on the continent. Booze-related disease is the leading cause of death for Finnish men, and second for women.

The suicide rate is 50 percent higher than in the US and more than double the UK rate. Party guests, even at upscale gatherings, report that, around 11:30 at night, things often take a fighty turn.

It turns out that the “warrior gene” — actually the enzyme monoamine oxidase A, which is linked to impulsive behavior, violence and alcoholism — is especially prevalent in Finland. “Dark” doesn’t just describe winter in the Arctic suburbs, it applies to the Finnish character.

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Macho isn’t a problem in Sweden. Dubbed the least masculine country on Earth by anthropologist Geert Hofstede, it’s the place where male soldiers are issued hairnets instead of being made to cut their hair.

But Scandinavian cohesion may not work in conjunction with massive immigration: Almost one-third of the Swedish population was born elsewhere. Immigration is associated in the Swedish mind with welfare (housing projects full of people on the dole) and with high crime rates (these newcomers being more than four times as likely to commit murder). Islamist gangs control some of the housing projects. Friction between “ethnic Swedes” and the immigrants is growing.

Welfare states work best among a homogeneous people, and the kind of diversity and mistrust we have between groups in America means we could never reach a broad consensus on Nordic levels of social spending.

Anyway, Sweden thought better of liberal economics too: When its welfare state became unsustainable (something savvy Danes are just starting to say), it went on a privatization spree and cut government spending from 67 percent of GDP to less than half. In the wake of the global financial crisis, it chose austerity, eliminating its budget deficit (it now runs a slight surplus).

As for its supposedly sweet-natured national persona, in a poll in which Swedes were asked to describe themselves, the adjectives that led the pack were “envious, stiff, industrious, nature-loving, quiet, honest, dishonest and xenophobic.” In last place were these words: “masculine,” “sexy” and “artistic.”

Scandinavia, as a wag in The Economist once put it, is a great place to be born — but only if you are average. The dead-on satire of Scandinavian mores “Together” is a 2000 movie by Sweden’s Lukas Moodysson set in a multi-family commune in 1975, when the groovy Social Democratic ideal was utterly unquestioned in Sweden.

In the film’s signature scene, a sensitive, apron-wearing man tells his niece and nephew as he is making breakfast, “You could say that we are like porridge. First we’re like small oat flakes — small, dry, fragile, alone. But then we’re cooked with the other oat flakes and become soft. We join so that one flake can’t be told apart from another. We’re almost dissolved. Together we become a big porridge that’s warm, tasty, and nutritious and yes, quite beautiful, too. So we are no longer small and isolated but we have become warm, soft and joined together. Part of something bigger than ourselves. Sometimes life feels like an enormous porridge, don’t you think?”

Then he spoons a great glutinous glob of tasteless starch onto the poor kids’ plates. That’s Scandinavia for you, folks: Bland, wholesome, individual-erasing mush. But, hey, at least we’re all united in being slowly digested by the system.

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  • Scandinavia supposedly the most secular region in the world. Yet, it has all these crazy NATO lovers would see Russian submarine and Russian troops mirages all the time. Scandinavia is one of the most devout believers in the US full spectrum dominance without pity for humanity. Refugees come from every where. No questioning about why they are coming? Do they ever think they are coming because of the US’s world hegemony wars and the US’s economic hit men wrecking the poor countries for its world domination of the world’s resources without pity for humanity? No, they take the poor refugees in without looking at the reasons why. They are accomplices to the destruction of the poorer regions of the world by their silence. They are in turn destroying themselves by taking in fleeing people since there is limit to how many people you can absorb. People will keep coming unless the US empire allows poorer areas of the world to develop.

  • When the Scandinavian Vikings conquered other areas with a sword in their hand, of course they noticed first all that stood out of the crowd in one way or other, and chopped their heads off before they could cause trouble. The Vikings did it very effectively and before long, there were only mediocre people left everywhere the Vikings settled in and lived. They had done the same in their own countries even before sailing to their conquering voyages and they did the same after returning home. They had learned to chop turnips on their fields and learned how a practical way it was to solve problems. That way the head chopping became a native way of life in all of the old Viking countries and the countries they had occupied. Then later, the French mechanized the head chopping with their guillotines and now, I have learned that the Americans have adopted them with thousands of guillotines in store waiting for whom? In between, even the Nazis used them in their own personality shortening program, and electrified them, naturlich.

    I even noticed that the online dictionary that I am using, gives an alternative to the turnip, the swede. Is it not funny?!

    • The Finns escaped into their dense, dark forests from where they shot their arrows and threw their lances at the Vikings but they were so drunk that they did not get many hits. So the Vikings overpowered the Finns and reigned them for about a millennium, but in their dense forests, the Finns kept their originality as they still are and all people know except they themselves.

      One Finnish farmer named Lalli tried to fight back. Once the Swedish Archbishop Henrik came into Lalli’s house on his mission when Lalli was not at home. Henrik took food and beer from the house anyway because he thought that as a high official, he had a right to do that. After the Bishop had left, driving with his oxen, Lalli came home and got mad because he thought he was robbed and set out skiing after the Bishop. Lalli had his sharp ax with him and after catching up the bishop, he chopped off the head of poor Henrik. That event is sung in the Finnish folklore. What happened afterwards, is not told in the folklore but how else, the Vikings chopped off Lalli’s head and the case was closed. That was the first Finnish war of independence and it stopped short. Only long afterwards when the Russians had reigned the Finns for about one century, the Finns got enough of the Russians and succeeded to get their independence the 6th December 1918 before Lenin, a new dictator of Russia, had time and a chance to subdue the Finns. Later the Russians regretted that they had let the Finns go and tried to get them back twice during the WW2 but without a success. The Finns were and still are, too stubborn to be reigned by Russians. The Swedes did it better because they are more resilient and allow the Finns to keep their originality.

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