{"id":58209,"date":"2016-04-05T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58209"},"modified":"2016-04-03T22:06:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T03:06:17","slug":"its-always-sunny-in-goteborg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58209","title":{"rendered":"It’s Always Sunny In G\u00f8teborg"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s nothing new for America’s pollyannaish, historically-and-economically illiterate left to jabber “why\u00a0can’t\u00a0<\/em>we try Scandinavian-style ‘Democratic Socialism?’ \u00a0What do they have that we don’t?”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u00a0correct answer<\/a> is “they have small countries – about the same population as Minnesota – with socially, ethnically and economically-homogenous societies (seriously – ethnic and social homogeneity is so ingrained in Scandinavian society, they have a word for it –\u00a0Janteloven<\/a><\/em>) with traditions of simultaneously-uplifting-and-suffocating communitarianism dating back hundreds of years”.<\/p>\n

You could also add “…and a willingness to reassess how their sustainable their systems actually are in the real world<\/a>“, which is something the American left flops at.<\/p>\n

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It’s nothing new for America’s pollyannaish, historically-and-economically illiterate left to jabber “why\u00a0can’t\u00a0we try Scandinavian-style ‘Democratic Socialism?’ \u00a0What do they have that we don’t?” The\u00a0\u00a0correct answer is “they have small countries – about the same population as Minnesota – with socially, ethnically and economically-homogenous societies (seriously – ethnic and social homogeneity is so ingrained in Scandinavian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58209","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=58209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58221,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58209\/revisions\/58221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}