SOCIALISM DOESN’T WORK.
SOCIALISM WILL NEVER WORK.
Name ONE Socialist country that has actually succeeded.
“DENMAHK!”-Bernie Sanders
“Crawl out, grandpa.” -Denmark
Yup. That’s basically how it went.
The Danes apparently have grown weary of Sen. Bernie Sanders insulting their country. Denmark is not a socialist nation, says its prime minister. It has a “market economy.”
BAHAHAHA.
This is epic.
Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate who calls himself a socialist, has used Denmark as the example of the socialist utopia he wants to create in America. During the Democrats’ first debate last month, he said “we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.”
While appearing in New Hampshire in September, Sanders said that he had “talked to a guy from Denmark” who told him that in Denmark, “it is very hard to become very, very rich, but it’s pretty hard to be very, very poor.”
“And that makes a lot of sense to me.”
Ok great – But Denmark would like Bernie to stop smearing their NON SOCIALIST NAME.
While speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the center-right Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said he was aware “that some people in the U.S. associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism.”
“Therefore,” he said, “I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.”
BOOM.
Rasmussen acknowledged that “the Nordic model is an expanded welfare state which provides a high level of security to its citizens,” but he also noted that it is “a successful market economy with much freedom to pursue your dreams and live your life as you wish.”
Which is ALSO the model of Bernie’s OTHER favorite example: Sweden.
So next time Bern wants to use examples of “Socialism at play” he can talk about North Korea, Cuba, or Venezuela.
But leave Denmark out of it, please and thank you.