cyko wrote:TotalyMeow wrote:I'm not sure Sanders would have been all that better of a candidate than Hillary, he's very socialist. He wanted things like 'free' college education. Nothing is free; someone has to pay. I'd rather keep my money and pay for my own things.
I don't know what "socialist" means in the USA. In Europe we have experience with real socialism, overall not good experiences of course. Sanders calls himself a "social democrat".
I think he is not even that, comparing with the concepts of social democracy.
He is a Roosevelt-Democrat, a New-Deal-Democrat, which is deeply an us-american concept. And Roosevelts New Deal wasn't so bad at all, as we all know.
Nothing is free, that's right. But don't forget that you live in an economic system which already distributes money itself. It can't be so bad to think about more democratic ways of distribution of capital - be aware, we talk about concerns, banks and so on, not the money of the common people. Afair the us-american constitution begins with "We the people...".. not "We.. the rich.. and the people...".
But that is just my opinion.
rustles wrote: Sweden has more "surprise sex" than most 3rd world countries now
That's not true. Not in Sweden, not in UK, not in Greece, not in Germany.
True is, that some people here are afraid of the future, a future with many people who simply look different, have different culture and so on. And true is also, that nationalistic parties rise in nearly every country here and that there is also an overheated debate about all those traditional fears about "foreign men who rob our women" and so on.
This debate runs via facebook or other social media and in the great majority, those cases are fake, free of facts. But this seems not to be interesting for those people.
All this new hatred, biologism, even racism in Europe is completely independent of facts and that's the point which scares me.
In my country it has already begun to expand to hatred for intellectuals or simply people with other opinions...