{"id":55703,"date":"2015-10-16T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55703"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:04:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:04:42","slug":"det-warm-et-tinglerer-foelens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55703","title":{"rendered":"Det W\u00e5rm En Tinglerer F\u00f8elens<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liberals pine for Denmark and Sweden.<\/p>\n

You can hear it from their politicians – Bernie Sanders is one of many that visibly palpitates for the “Danish system”. \u00a0And you can see it in their semi-offical propaganda; in the cable series\u00a0Weeds<\/em>, produced by the loathsome Jenji Cohan, Denmark is depicted as a civil utopia.<\/p>\n

Or, to be accurate, Sanders and Cohan depict a version of Denmark (and by extension the other northern European welfare states) that existed in in mid-seventies.<\/p>\n

As Kevin Williamson notes, history is yet again leaving America “progressives” behind<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For those of you who are keeping score, the Heritage Foundation, which literally keeps score, rates\u00a0Denmark\u2019s economy as slightly more free\u00a0\u2013 slightly more capitalistic \u2014 than that of the United States. Denmark is in a rough spot just lately, but it has been undergoing a series of\u00a0deep and intelligent reforms to its welfare state\u00a0(as have many of the other Northern European countries) to counteract the ill effects of earlier excesses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Williamson also notes that the Danes, like the Swedes, pay for the goodies with a fairly crushing level of middle-class taxation – something that no American Democrat has the guts to admit; apparently we’ll have to pass their version of socialism to see what it costs us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liberals pine for Denmark and Sweden. You can hear it from their politicians – Bernie Sanders is one of many that visibly palpitates for the “Danish system”. \u00a0And you can see it in their semi-offical propaganda; in the cable series\u00a0Weeds, produced by the loathsome Jenji Cohan, Denmark is depicted as a civil utopia. Or, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-55703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55705,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55703\/revisions\/55705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}