At left is an interesting twist on the case for social democracies. In short: Investing in people pays off. As they say, Education is expensive, but the cost of ignorance is far higher.
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Do Social Democracies Commit Genocide on Their People?
Re: the meme here that a reader sent me, I’m not sure this is fair. What social democrats are proposing is exactly what most of the governments of Western Europe, and many other countries around the globe offer their citizens. …
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How We Regard the World’s Social Democracies
Here’s a video on a subject we discuss a great deal here: Americans’ attitudes toward the social democracies in countries like Norway. The woman has an interesting perspective.
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On Capitalism
Re: the meme here, I wonder what the people living in the happiest nations on Earth would say. From the 2026 World Happiness Ranking, here are the top 6: Finland (7.76) Iceland (7.54) Denmark (7.54) Costa Rica (7.44) Sweden (7.26) …
Social Democracies
The moron who created the meme here apparently believes that most of Western and Northern Europe are communist countries.
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Libertarianism Might Make Sense in Some Alternative Universe
It’s not hard to imagine a world in which countries like Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and the other social democracies did not exist. If that were the case, the type of libertarian blathering at left …
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Right-Wing Extremism Joins Academic Dishonesty at Hillsdale College
Anti-government, Trump-supporting Hillsdale College is ostensibly conducting a one-question survey of Facebook: What are your biggest concerns about socialism taking root in America? (I use the word “ostensibly” because real surveys from academically honest institutions don’t use loaded questions that …
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