@@speakeasyusa You still have choice. go to whatever doctor or school you want! We even have private schools you can choose to pay out of your own pocket if you are not satisfied with any public school in the country...... -You think our taxes are high... we think your healtcare bills, educational debts and job/wellfare securities and retirement plans are ludacris! :D
@@speakeasyusa Where do you get that you don't have a ''freedom of choice''? Like, you're not being forced to NOT pay for healthcare or for school in Denmark. The option is there if you want to do that stuff. Besides, there's no ''freedom of choice'' in America. It's an illusion. You think you have a choice when it comes to your education or healthcare in the US? All of them will mess you up. Literally all of them. Education is ridiculously expensive and so is healthcare. You literally have no other choice but to pay up and go bankrupt or pay up and have little to survive afterwards. That's our ''freedom of choice''.
This is wonderful and I would feel the same way if I were a citizen in Denmark. Unfortunately, in the US, people generally care only about themselves, not what is best for society. Take for example education. In the US, people go to university (paying way too much) with the dream to make big money. In Denmark, people are paid to university because your society understand the return value of highly educated citizens. It is best for society, then the individual. The shortsightedness of Americans and our societal structure annoys me to no end and makes me want to move to your great country. Danes walk the walk.
@@StellaLovesMusic25 You can't just make something up to be right. Here's why you're wrong: - Socialist healthcare is not minimal (no clue where you got that from). - Being able to choose your doctors doesn't matter and you can't do that with insurance anyway - "You get what is available". This is also true for insurance because getting something that is not available is not possible - Not treating you for a small wound is exactly what insurance does if you can't pay it. With free healthcare they will definitely treat it - Bad doctors won't keep their jobs with free healthcare. The law won't be on their side; health insurance doesn't affect any part of their job and the government won't help them just because of that Insurance costs you way more than free healthcare and they will only cover you after you pay a massive amount of money. Now come up with a valid argument
@@sm8tal229 The age for drinking legally in Denmark is 14 years, if you have a permit from your parents and when you turn 16 years old it legal without permit from parents and then a 16 yr old can buy "light" alcohol under 16,5%(beer, some wine, mixed drinks) and when you then turn 18 you can buy strong alcohol over 16,5% (Vodka, Whiskey, Rum) greetings from a dane
sadly, he wuldn't have won, america isn't ready for a president with any relation to the name "socialism". It's too conservative at the moment, maybe later, we will see another progressive like bernie sanders become president
@Apache Helicopter Bernie definitely didn't help his cause by wrongly calling himself a socialist- but it doesn't help when there are so many misinformed individuals who actually believe Sanders is a communist/socialist Okay man, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, do you think social programs are communist? if so public education, infrastructure programs, and public services are communist by that logic...
alberto cassinelli Funny how Denmark is number 1 on this life quality list, and Italy is on number 37. worldpopulationreview.com/countries/standard-of-living-by-country/
@@MrCaptainErik This is false my guy. Im pretty sure you are danish, so am i. 1. All Regular education (Folkeskole og Gymnasie) is free + you get money(more if you dont live at home, but you still get money if you live at home) . 2. Even tho alot of people dont know, it is actaully free to go to "universitet"(university). The only thing that cost money about university is furniture for your room and social activities. and what are you on about, SU is money given to you that you dont have to give back, quicklån is not needed for education. You can legit have 0$, do all your school and get your education without paying for anything that you have to(you can ofc pay for stuff like i said earlier). but in general if you dont spend any money and finish everything inkl. university you will come out with an education and money. The only way you get loans as a student is if you decide to, but you dont have to
I'm from Mexico, grew up at the border where a lot of people have the option to work in the US, and came to Denmark to study a master's. People from outside Europe do have to pay tuition, but I got a scholarship from the Danish government. Any other European: Greek, Spaniard, etc., also have free access to school up to the master's level. PhDs have a liveable salary. And while studying a master's here, I worked at the same time to cover my rent and expenses. 15 hours a week was enough to live a comfortable life and even save for a flight back to visit Mexico during the holidays. If I were studying and working in Mexico or the US, I'd easily have to work at least double the hours in order to make ends meet.
For me, the SU that the government gives me for studying is enough for me to cover my basic living needs. I can rent my own place, have food every day and have money for public transport to school.
...I'm a Dane. I would wish Senator Sanders would stop referring to this as "socialism". Denmark doesn't have state ownership of the means of production. We're a market-economy. What he really means is "social democracy" ... that's not socialism.
Well... I don't regard Bernie as an idiot ... but then... it is really shooting-yourself-in-the-foot, to give simple-minded people the excuse of screaming "socialism!" and "Venezuela" when what you are promoting really isn't that.
No... Venezuela isn't communism either. The issue is that these countries which claim to want to try communism usually derails before they manage to get there. You know... "Everybody is equal, but some are more equal than others". Actual communism is an utopian idea. - just like anarcho-capitalism. Humanity should have learned by now that these extreme ideologies are missing too many important things about the real world to actually work.
Communism is dictatorship (in most cases). In reality America has a "disguised" feudalism - like Europe in the middle ages. Denmark has democratic capitalism I'd say. Or actually limited monarchy - allowing the people some influence. This makes the elite larger than in the USA - but less powerful.
Yooooo I'm coming for you dude, I swear I'm going to emigrate to Norway within the next 6 or 7 years. Then I can absorb as many Norwegian sayings as I wish
@@freepalestine7687 Not expensive for us people living in Scandinavia. Therefore when we go travel everything is cheap. Now leave me alone! I am introverted!
In America, Sanders is seen as a communist, because he stands for things even the AfD, Germanies most right wing party thats currently part of the Bundestag, takes for granted. What a joke.
Yep that's how fucking right wing America is don't get me wrong the afd are still just shitty right wing populists who use conspiracy nuts are their voter base but it's just fucking insane what is going on in america
Denmark has very few obese people, nearly no illegals, and is 99% white. Oh they also have less taxes on the rich than the US under Obama. Not giving my opinion, just stating facts, do what you want with them.
its is funny but .. for us looking in its like .. its funny..but at the same time its more laughing to conceal the pain because its like let us help you look we know how to do this we know this work just let us teach you and .... like you can lead a horse to water but you can make it drink.. and its frustrating to know that so many people are suffering and there nothing we can do about it ...because you cant or wont put the pride and the ego aside so ..its like watching someone re invent the wheel and going look you don't need to we have already done that here have some of our wheel we know they work we know they work well all you need to do it tailor it to what ever it is you need .. and then being told.. nah im good thanks my wheels are better than you'res and we're like..but they're square and don't roll .. and you like well yeah but you're wheels are stupid and look funny and i dont understand them... and where like...sigh... ok.. you do you i guess...
Once we have Single Payer/Medicare For All, then those greedy 'for profit' insurance/drug companies will be forced to compete against the actual real cost of healthcare instead of charging their greedy profit oriented monopoly prices. Toooo bad... soooo sad that they'll have to lower their greedy profits while having to provide higher quality care and service for those who choose to buy healthcare from them instead of using our Public Option of Medicare For All. I'm sure the greedy Republicans and dumb Trump Apologists will all cry bitter tears for those poooor greedy Billionaire CEO's! Sooooo sad. - Citizens: SPREAD THE WORD! BE SURE AND HAVE THIS CONVERSATION WITH YOUR FAMILY, YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR CO-WORKERS. THE MEDIA IS OWNED, BOUGHT AND PAID FOR, BY CORRUPT BIG PHARMA AND GREEDY INSURANCE COMPANIES. THE MEDIA WON'T ALLOW THIS INFORMATION TO BE BE SHOWN. IT'S UP TO YOU AND ME TO SPREAD THE WORD! Go to Bernie Sanders website. Go to Thom Hartmann's website. Go to PatrioticMillionaires .org. TH-cam Dr Richard Wolff. Inform yourselves! Because if you don't even know what your choices are, then you have None. THINKING IS PATRIOTIC!
@@modemmark421 get rid of campaign funding by voting for politicians who don't take corporate funding, this means the politicians will actually listen to the people, so they can do what the people want.
While what Jørgensen said is true, and those things are huge reasons we're happy... I find these videos always fail to mention the Danish mentality and culture. We have this thing called Law of Jante (Not an actual law, but a mindset), which basically means no one is better than the man next to him. Whether you end up working as a doctor or a sewage worker, there's a need for you and you're important for society to run smoothly. The doctor might have a bigger income, but that comes down to the fact his work is a lot more complicated. But the doctor is not a better human being than the sewage worker. A doctor and a sewage worker can easily be friends, as you're rarely identified by your work, but as a human. This leads to Danes usually just being content with their lives. In other words, happy with how their life is going. It's not about making as much money as possible and have a huge house with a pool... And whatever else is in the "American dream". I don't believe we'll see Americans adopt that mindset even with Bernie in the White House. But I ope he'll win and he manage to change the things he wants to get changed in America. The higher taxes are indeed worth it and I think America would greatly benefit from doing something similar.
@@thesilentdiva You could reduce your armed forces with 50% and still be the most powerfull country in the world. Imagine what that money alone could do in healthcare or aducation..?
I feel like a lot of americans don't want to tax the rich or to sign whatever other potential law that is against the rich just because they want to live the american dream (being rich/making it big), while almost all of them will never achieve that. If they would be realistic and just go with what would be best for the majority of people then that would go a long way. Having a billionaire like Trump who is also born rich as president is terrible because he is so out of touch with the general population. He has never lived like the people in his country, not one second.
@@everyporism but you could use that reasoning for like anything. One thing could eventually lead to another but it doesn’t mean it will. Capitalism could potentially jump right to communism, it all just depends on leadership.
@@somuchsoul3041 not really, socialism HAS to happen in order for capitalism to smoothly transition to communism. Unless of course you don’t want to have a “smooth” phasing stage then yeah you can go straight in to communism lol
I'm from Denmark. and we have it, and guess what doesn't work. I've got privat health insurance, so i don't have to deal with the extreme waiting lists..
@@gman4255 there are some minor wait times for certain things yes. the fact it is free far outweighs every wait time. if its critial care surgery you arent going to wait. if its cancer operations, you arent going to wait long. come survey some aussies about our medicare system. they will argue were the luckiest country in the world in relation to that.
That's one thing that I really respect about him. He could probably easily become a politician in these countries that he supports (the only thing in his way might be a "naturalization" process), but he continues to fight in the US for the common man even if many people can't see that.
The American dream concept is more prevalent in Denmark than America. You can be born in a poor family, but because of the far-reaching welfare system you can reach your dream with much less effort than in other countries. Whatever challange you face, there's help for you. Paying taxes is not about enriching your individual opportunities, it's about enriching the society as whole. And when you do that, what you pay comes back twice.
Problemet er bare at vi har lukket en masse mennesker ind som ikke bidrager til fælles kassen - så pga af alle tosserne på både højre og venstre fløjen der agetere for åbne grænser - enten fordi de ikke vil stemples som utolerante af deres spelt bolle venner eller fordi de vil have billig arbejdskraft til dem selv og deres venners firmaer - er det fantastiske system vores bedste forældre skabte til os, ved at krakelerer om ørene på os.
@@DT-bp2om dit svar blev slettet af pootube, så jeg kunne ikke læse det hele, men jeg fik fat i hoved pointen tror jeg.. Og hvis du seriøst prøver at sælge mig den neo liberale myte om at indvandring fra ikke vestlige lande gavne os økonomisk eller på nogen anden måde så må jeg sgu bare sige DOOH 🤦🏼♀️ hvis du vitterligt stadig tror på den løgn - så er du uden for hvad rationelle mennesker kalder pædagogisk rækkevidde. Jeg har ikke noget imod den enkelte indvandrer (har flere venner fra Iran især) men at hoppe på narrativet om at det gavner os at lukke kæmpe grupper af mennesker ind i landet som hader vores kultur og ikke føler noget ansvar eller nogen taknemmelighed over for de medborgere som har åbnet deres hjemland for dem... Undskyld mig men det er sgu for naivt dude. Og jeg tror de fleste kvinder i vesten der nu ikke kan gå sikkert på gaden mere - vil være uenige med det globalistiske mantra om at mangfoldighed er en styrke. I Sverige hvor jeg arbejder med voldsramte kvinder er voldtægts raten steget 1535 % siden de åbnede grænserne.. Så igen undskyld mig hvis jeg ikke køber dine neo liberale løgne.
@@DT-bp2om Hvorfor undersøger du ikke bare statistikkerne istedet ? Så er det nemt at se, hvem der begår dem, og der er en bestemt gruppe massivt overrepræsenteret. Seneste publikation fra Danmarks Statistik (2018), Personer dømt for Voldtægt, efter oprindelsesland. Danmark: 38, Vestlige Lande: 2 Ikke-Vestlige Lande: 29, Samlet = 69 Andel af befolkningen efter oprindelse: Danmark: 87% Vestlige Lande: 5% Ikke-Vestlige Lande: 8% , 29*100/69 = 42.02%, altså begår 8%, 42% af alle voldtægter i Danmark. Kan ikke linke direkte, da youtube sætter kommentare med links, i spam-kø til manuel godkendelse, men du kan finde de officielle statistikker ved at søge på statistikkens navn: "Skyldige personer i alderen 15-79 år efter overtrædelsens art og oprindelsesland" på google eller anden søgemaskine.
And yeah; Dan Jørgensen and the Social Democratic Party are practically considered left-leaning moderates in Denmark. Goes to show how skewed the political line in the US is.
Bernie makes me glad to be Canadian too. Even our Conservative party is far to the left of the Democrats in USA on the issues that really count. Obviously big monied interests are manipulating that 2 party system with ease
Wow you're special what's the population of your country. If you can think at all check how many homeless in blue states vs Red the wonderful socialist Gov. Of old man Biden has t even mentioned homeless , he's too busy allowing more people in for aid and your buddy Sanders. By the way if I. Old send the old freak over for you I gladly would.wonder why there's more patents EVERY year in the us than anywhere. Oh. Maybe because people are free to thi k for themselves while the rest of the have free health care wow Y the way I had e health insurance and I'm very happy maybe you should hear the whole story onzteD of just a few mommas girls
@@jamescampbell8845 What the fuck did you just write. I had a stroke only from reading this. Imagine not being able to type 1 understandable sentence in your own language while talking about free thinking and ideologies in the USA. Kkona brudah.
Yea I feel like the only video game they play there I KIM JONG UN IS THE BEST AT FOOTBALL HE PLAY AND WIN EVERYTHING NO NEED TO PLAY GAME NOW GO BACK TO WORK
It's funny because Norway have very relaxed gun laws, all you need to do is provide a reason for buying a gun and do a strict background check. Most Norwegians don't have guns because they don't need one since violent crime is extremely uncommon.
guns are imposible to get in denmark and have always been imposible to get so there is not really any demand for them. ive never seen a gun outside a museum here in denmark. if tyou have anything on your criminal record you cant get a gun. we dont need guns for self defence because no one has one so there is no reason to have one.
You don't need a gun ! Danes can buy a self destruction guns every day. It is called Tuborg Carlsberg Aaborg Gamle Dansk …..it is a slowly dying . It is called liver cirrhosis . In Sweden and Norway ''guns'' are more expensive but hey are richer than Danes and can drink more and die faster .
I know! The regime makes money out of liver cirrhosis.The Scandinavian social democracy wants everybody drunk! You are all drunk! You born drunk procreated by drunk women! Sweden and Norway the worse ! Norway so beautiful . So boring . Everybody is drunk. Alcohol is so expensive . They sell oil and import alcohol ! Good business.
You are highly admired in Norway as well! And you are such an important voice for America. Your voice makes the world a better place. Keep up the good spirit you have!
Tax to GDP ratio at 45% lmao... I don't think anyone sane and reasonable would want others to suffer or think that humans cannot be more humane. But some has already realised the nature of humans - virtually everyone operates on greed. If you tax the rich too high, they will find a way to shelter their money in tax exempt securities or invest it elsewhere. The utopian-ish vision of the social liberal fails to factor in history. It is seldom that we have seen the government running institutions better than the market. The market is responsible for lifting out billions out of poverty.
@@countblobula that is your own assessment- years of empirical evidence says otherwise. Tax cuts were tried in the Hoover, JFK, Reagan, Bush, and Trump administrations. In each case, the government collected more tax revenue the following financial years. The rich aren’t chess figures you can move around to make your vision prevail. They can and have acted contrary to the liberal vision.
@@countblobula not without ruining the fabric of the country and the principles it was founded upon. Much like you can eliminate gun violence by taking away guns and giving extremely harsh sentences to those who keep and bear arms. Even if you do that- they can leave the country entirely- much like they did in socialist nations throughout history. You can’t tax human capital to that point and expect it to stay with your vision- it is virtually impossible.
@@countblobula I was describing the worst possible scenario. But even if you put up with them and somehow you manage to get more money without them investing it in municipal bonds and buying politicians and lobbyist to influence congress, you end up with the a bigger and much bloated government running institutions. I’m sure in Denmark and other homogeneous societies people can trust the government more- after all it is relatively easy to keep them in check. In America- it is virtually impossible- 330K people that are diverse in their worldview.
@@milkiasgebreyesus2202 ur guys are all missing this one point. look these huge companies and millions of startups are what provide employment for millions of people. If u increase tax on businesses and rich people, they will lesser money to invest in businesses for expansion and creating more jobs. thats why no president will ever increase taxes on the rich. cuz everyone relies on them for jobs so they are very important for a functioning country. Plus if uv worked hard and smart enough to get that much money and a huge business i feel u deserve to keep and enjoy that money
I am so thankful for Senator Sanders. He gives America hope for greater civilization with a thriving population, not a few people with exorbitant wealth at the expense of the suffering of many.
I'm from Bangladesh and I live in Denmark. I'm really grateful to be here. Denmark as a country is probably one of the best countries in the world in every aspects. Ever since coming here, I've loved every thing about the country. It's like I'm in a dream. Another thing I want to share is the fact that every parent in Denmark encourages their children to learn cycling from an early. I can't explain how I feel every time I see someone doing it. This habit of being concerned about the environment or doing what is right is what the world needs to become a better place
In Denmark the tradition with using the bicycle has nothing to do with climate change. We have in Denmark had tradition for using the bicycle since before anyone had cars. The reason is simple, Denmark is mostly flat land without neither hills or mountains, hence easy to use a bike. With a good infrastructure and due to high prices of vehicles and transportation and because Denmark is a small country where everything is close by. Having and using a bicycle makes a lot of good sense. Has nothing to do with climate and more to do with convenience and economy.
@@SusseBo Pleeeease!! I am very capable and will help bring an end to the fossil fuel use there XD. Canada wanted me but I wanna check out your place before I go there again. I can't live on in the US, help!!
@@waldenli9232 hi 🇨🇦 Canada takes many refugees, but scene is how you are not a refugee you have to go through the immigration process. I'm sure Canada would accept a hardworking American immigrant. We accept 40,000 Syrians a year. *Things about Canada* . Yes, it's frickin cold in winter and yes, it's very hot in summer. Health care is free (tax based) and so is education pre postsecondary (also taxed base). Most provinces are increasing their minimum wages, Ontario's is currently sitting at $14. Still not as high as I would like it to be, but meh. Go and apply, see what happens. I wish you the best of luck. :)
@@Person-ng5hp Thanks! Canada looked welcoming indeed. She paid me to do research over there when I was an undergrad, and I spent the summer in Toronto. Apparently the best time to invite people there hahaha. I was promised with scholarship to go to grad school there, too, but unfortunately I came to the US as there weren't many labs in my field in Canada at the time. But that's still a place I'd hope to settle in! We'll see :)
How can Bernie not even be in the presidential election? It’s so obvious that he’s the best American politician, who really cares about his country and wants to make it better from everyone. Ah right not for everyone only for 99% but the problem is that this democracy is ruled by the other 1%.
@@KeiwaM It all depends on what the tax is used for. Some industries would lose on it while others would gain on it. But the economy as a whole would not be significantly affected. Unless the money disappears in corruption.
@Offset Same here, this Danish society does NOT help people, that be sick, unemployed, or similar But they take every ounce of freedom and a minimum og 48% tax (to a maximum of a whopping 68%!) and not 40 as some idiots claim, if you feel really dumb and cant control your own life THEN Denmark is a good place, but not if your a thinking adult, then it is hell
I'm from Bahrain. An Arab country many would call "third-world". We have free education for everyone who lives in Bahrain, even non-Bahrainis. We have free healthcare in both government hospitals and health centers, including major operations, and health used to include non-Bahrainis until about a year ago. We never paid any taxes until only the beginning of last year, which is only 5% and it does not include items of necessities. I can see why Danes are happy. We are happy too
It is more difficult to fail in Denmark and the Nordic countries. But at the same time, it's harder to succeed really well. As he said in the video, if you belong to the 1%, it is better to live in the United States.
You heard wrong then. American dream: if you work hard you will succeed. If your idea of succes is having a mansion, lots of wealth, fame. Denmark really isn't the place to be. By the legislation put on companies and the taxes mentioned you will come nowhere near success. Denmark is a good place to be if you desire living in small but very expensive houses or flats driving small price range cars and travelling moderately for mild budgets. Denmark is the right place for you if you desire to work 40 hours a week and where 20 of those hours every week is not worked for your own wealth and health but for others and those others you're paying for are mostly people that hasn't benefitted society. The following: Education, healthcare, military, police, justice system, environment and infrastructure takes up 40% of our taxes. 60% of the taxes paid in Denmark goes to Social security and public adminstration. Stop this bs misinformation campaign. Wealth ain't something that just comes to your aid because you want it. wealth of society is the overall wealth created by every individual of that society. Why Denmark has become a wealthy country is because we have ensured using our ressources to its maximale capacities. We are wealthy because a lot of people are willing to work and work hard and effecient. We are wealthy because we aren't overpopulated. If we were more people it wouldn't mean higher gdp per capita but a lower gdp per capita. Thanks to our low population, our overall hard work ethics, our homogene population (not multiculteral), and reasonable traditions we are one of the best countries.
The Engineer Then dont go to Denmark. Bernie sanders and dan Jørgensen are not telling the truth. Do your reesurch. Bernie sanders is an dangerous and evil man
She is lying 😊. I just got my degree in electronic engineer and guess what nooo debt after the education. And i gladly pay 39 % in tax of the 480000 kr a year i earn so my kid can get to school and get free health care 😊. I live a very low stressful life
At The age of 35 I decided to change the career path I had taken and go back to school, at the age of 36 I got my high school diploma and now at the age of 37 I study psychology in the university of Trondheim NTNU. Everything payed by the danish tax money, I even get payed 1000$ a month to go to school, when I finish I will go back to Denmark and start my new career as a Psychologist and pay back to the danish society by paying my taxes, giving others the opportunity that I got. I love the Nordic model.
Cause your corporate mainstream media is owned by large private profit-driven corporations who's best interest (maximisation of profits for their CEO and share holders) is in a direct conflict with the best interest of the general populations. So they intentionally misinform and brainwash their viewers. And its the same case with the other corporations (Oil and gas, banks, insurance, pharmaceuticals, military industrial complex etc.), their interest (maximisations of profits for their CEO's and share holders) is in a direct conflict with the best interest of the general population. So they bribe and corrupt politicians to make them work for them, instead for their constituents, and by doing this they control the country. The system is inherently broken and needs to be fundamentally changed, if the american people ever want a fair representation of their interests and desires
(closes in on microphone) *wrong* People in France are protesting against their neoliberal government headed by a banker currently giving shit away to the rich. Nobody in those protests was there in a valiant stand against poor people.
@@moffig1 Hey! That, ^^^ up there ,,, nearly gave me goose bumps. Srsly! It seems I end up going like pc files (sub-folder of a sub-folder, so) meaning When questioned by friend they sometimes challenge, I fall for it!! Somewhere right about there I gave up what "floor" I had to a practical joker that just don't get it yet, but soon will learn to understand how freaking important what we are talking about, it is an overall change of course and how dire this place we call home can get. Greed is a mental illness! :-) Once you get infected with the "greed bug" you're a gonner! I need to stop.. lol! have a great day!
Because the corporate masters say so and most of our legislators do their bidding because they are owned by said corporate masters. I'd say that's a great argument for electing uncorrupted progressives to leadership.
@handsoffmygun MF You keep repeating that Denmark and other Nordic countries are on the brink of collapse. By what measure? And where did you pick up a falsehood like that? Public debt in Denmark is around 36% of GDP. In Sweden it's around 41% of GDP. I'll agree that France has a problem. Their public debt is a staggering 97% of GDP. And yes, they have the higest taxes of all in combination with relatively low minimum wages and higher unemployment rates. That's causing them problems. Btw. I also believe that protesting is a stronger part of their culture. Bottom line is you can't compare France directly to the Nordic countries. US public debt to GDP is around 107% at the moment. I'm afraid the shit will hit the fan in US a lot sooner than it will here. And that is of course bad news for everyone since US is such a large economy.
I saw a statistic that showed Denmark created more millionaires per capital (last year? Not sure) than did the USA. So much for a “regressive” tax system.
@@Houlgravely Yeah and they still live like kings while the poor get a better standard of life. No one is ever gonna need millions and millions while some people just need an extra 500 a month to get by
@@skrillah6259 Not everyone gets to sit on the beach and rake in money for doing nothing. People who make the kind of money your talking about have to spend money to make money. Sometimes even at the cost of any real profit margin. Yet all the government does is tax them into oblivion because the poor can't contribute to the tax pool in any meaningful way.
@Ramadan Steve Well. I still embrace and accept your ways. You guys shouldn't be naive. Theres a reason why Scandinavian countries are so wealthy. Your society would do so well with our model.
I used to wonder why in American movies and tv shows, a lot of (adult) people always had roommates. Turns out a lot of people don’t make enough money to buy or even rent a house on their own.
Not true. Maybe some people just hate living alone. Besides, living with a roommate, especially in college, can teach you a lot of valuable things. Have you ever stopped to consider that?
Right wing is about looking after yourself, left wing is about everyone looking after everyone. So selfish people will always lean towards the right wing. They aren't necessarily wrong, both systems work. It just depends on what kind of world you want to live in.
Bullshit! Left-wing is about state regulation and control over the people, you pay large or full taxes and if you are lucky (Venezuela is a prime example) you get less than you give. Right-wing is basically the opposite of what I just mentioned, little to no countries today have this implemented. I would move tomorrow if I could, but high taxes prevent me (Sweden)...
@@richhich327 // Rich Hich 40 minutes ago Bullshit! Left-wing is about state regulation and control over the people, you pay large or full taxes and if you are lucky (Venezuela is a prime example) you get less than you give.// Left-wing is about freedom and ability to serve other people. The best way I can describe left-wing is to love others as you love yourself. A very Christian principle. Right-wing is all about being selfish, greediness and exploitation. //Right-wing is basically the opposite of what I just mentioned, little to no countries today have this implemented. I would move tomorrow if I could, but high taxes prevent me (Sweden)...// Right-wing is about deregulation and enslavement to the Oligarchy. You cannot live in a world free of regulation that is not how human nature work. //
But human beings are social animals, you can't truly live independently of others, its a fairy story, a spook. The only way to truly be free would be to abandon society, which fair play to you if you want to but being anprim is pretty cringe tbh.
I suspect decades of intentional fear-mongering, brainwashing and misinformation from corporations and billionaires made people just automatically shy away whenever someone suggests socialistic policies. Its really sad actually :/ FDR was one of the most popular presidents in US history and he made a ton of progressive socialistic policies. But the corporate media wouldnt benefit from that, they benefit from fascism and predatory capitalism, so thats what they subtly push
That was a very positive conversation. I hope the rest of the world will realize that this is the first step to a better world. On top of this Denmark is one of the leaders in green energy. Nothing but respect for Denmark...
Tara!? DUH!! Srsly? (from a great post above by A ROWING FISH ,,,, A Rowing Fish 1 hour ago Cause your corporate mainstream media is owned by large private profit-driven corporations who's best interest (maximization of profits for their CEO and share holders) is in a direct conflict with the best interest of the general populations. So they intentionally misinform and brainwash their viewers. And its the same case with the other corporations (Oil and gas, banks, insurance, pharmaceuticals, military industrial complex etc.), their interest (maximizations of profits for their CEO's and share holders) is in a direct conflict with the best interest of the general population. So they bribe and corrupt politicians to make them work for them, instead for their constituents, and by doing this they control the country. The system is inherently broken and needs to be fundamentally changed, if the American people ever want a fair representation of their interests and desires
Wrong! I bet you don't even know the definition of communism. When has Bernie Sanders ever used Venezuela as an example for his ideology? He always uses other Western countries as examples (Canada, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, United Kingdom, France, Germany, etc.)
Venezuela is going through that crisis greatly by the sanctions imposed by the U.S and blockades to public assets abroad, along with the UK and many other right wing countries' collusion. Argentina just went from socialism to capitalism and things got much tougher than they were before, there's a much worse economic crisis. The 'establishment' or elites, demonize socialism and sabotage those countries that have it as a practice, because it's clearly not convenient for their interests, well said by Obama back in 2015.
Yes because their your taxes go back to you in that way if the gov raises the min wage to 15+ an hour and that will afford the taxes to go up to pay for Medicare for all and free college instead of giving tax breaks to the rich who then still out sourcing their jobs and artificially growing their stocks by buying them with that money that's why the stock market is volitile right now not just the economic policy of the republican party
They forgot to mention that we actually save a lot of money on for example healthcare by having it funded by our taxes. In the US, you don't get the same amount of healthcare for the same amount of money.
“That’s the reality of socialism” “is that the direction we want to go in?” all of Gen Z scraping the bottom of the barrel and fearing death from climate change: YES!
@@daviddornslifematter7601 what about those who don’t drive, or even use public transport and instead cycle, should they still have to pay taxes that then will get spent on building roads?
@@Ewan_Tyler public transportation should also become privatized. There are some government services like the military and the police that we can't privatize, but people should not fund other peoples' desires.
Idk actually I'm French, it's important to educate yourself about other countries, in particularly nordic ones because they are such a good example for all of us
konan Zzz because no one ever talks about us but we constantly talk about other countries. It’s like being cool enough to be at the other first world countries’ party but no one cares that you’re there. We crave attention as a nation.
not even that their healthy and happy that's good but what enables those two traits is education. without education people will shoot themselves in the foot over and over and over and by the time they learn from it, their life will be over. knowing what makes people healthy and happy is needed, and so without any education to guide anyone here in the states. we just roam around from idea to idea hoping something will work. when we get people who are educated, the dumb start attacking because they have no idea how anything works. the media calls it 50/50 and this is another major problem because the media is controlled by the 1%. we could just look at any other country and just take some of their ideas and build on them but brain deads can't seem to understand simple. 30% of the US are brain dead zombies that will say yes to anything the dear leader says. 30% of the country is under educated. it would be great if these people would just go live in a cave somewhere where no one has to hear their ideas. where they can be oppressed all they want at their own time. lastly it's more towards Tracy, it's not free. they do pay taxes, it's just FAR cheaper then anything we have because their isn't a greedy ass company trying to make as much money and caring as little as possible.
Don't take this the wrong way, but take it the right way. You really should go live where you think you'll be happiest. Plenty of people make that leap and are glad for it.
@@johannesvahlkvist Some people in Christiansborg seem to care because they are quite busy sending the police on daily crack downs in Christiania. The joke is they mostly show up with demolition equipment and a flat-bed truck. Spend 30-60 minutes tearing down fibre board and pallet wood crap and hauling it off. No dogs, no searches just some guys in full riot gear with sledge hammers and a foul mood.
I was a Bernie supporter until I realized how dangerous he was for the country. I wouldn't say I'm a Trump supporter now, per se, but I would have voted for him.
@@hugokam7762 You might want to look up the effects of living above the polar circle/55th northern parallel, maybe even ask yourself why Alaska is the US state with the most suicides and highest consumption of anti-depressants by miles. Who'd have thought that very little sunlight for just about 6 months is horrible for your mental wellbeing, especially if you are susceptible to seasonal depression, which is a physiological diagnosis not psychiatric and is also near endemic in northern societies, like Alaska or the Nordic countries.
Of course they're happy.... they don't suffer unnecessarily or die prematurely because they can't afford healthcare. They get good educations and aren't saddled with debt when they finish. They get several weeks of paid vacation per year and they have paid family leave. They, unlike here in America, invest in their citizens and do things to keep them happy and healthy.
Boyd Gilbreath it is NOT the truth.... about Denmark.... Dan Jørgensen is lying. It is on paper, but it dosens work that way in reality. Trust me, om Living here AS homeless. They made me homeless. Please pray for the truth to come out... ♥️🙏❤️🇩🇰
@@jeanettestrauss1311 They did not make you homeless. And anecdotal evidence is not evidence. If you genuinely are homeless then I am sorry for you. But the notion that because you are homeless in Denmark suddenly ALL of Denmark is a "lie" or "bad" is complete bs. People are homeless EVERYWHERE. Would you rather be homeless in the streets of Brooklyn New York or Denmark? I think you know the answer. No Country is perfect but STATISTICALLY speaking Denmark is doing much better than most.
@@darkwolf4434 Well at that point I think I think that's a you problem. You can suffer anywhere in the world, but you can also be happy anywhere. It depends more on the person than it does on your environment when it comes to western first world countries.
@@Molly-ss4fw The social democratic things hasn't helped me with anything. Finding a job was similar as in a capitalist society for me when I was young and had to get 3 different jobs my first year after I had finished my education.
I live in Denmark, and working full time and i gladly pay my taxes….However we have of late had some serious criminal activity in Danske Bank "Denmarks biggest bank", a financial institution that was actually saved by tax payers money back in 2008 when the financial crisis roamed!. They are now involved in the biggest financial crime in Europe ever, perhaps even in the world and we are still not at the end of it. Despite these financial institutions who i would love to see go bankrupt, Denmark is a great place to live indeed! . Thank you Senator Bernie Sanders.
Noah Vale - Not at all, i know bank's in USA are involved in serious crimes that are investigated at this moment. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase, are all 3 huge financial institutions now being investigated in related financial crimes (and not for the 1st time) and in Germany Deutsche Bank have been raided by the fraud squad (police) just recently for yet again being involved in financial crimes of epic proportions !. The biggest criminals in the world are in fact the financial institutions, and it is entities like this that criminals and traitors like Trump and Putin loves ! these are the once that Trump call great and tremendous good people and businesses!
@@thomasl486 The system started to collapse when the financial industry wasn't making money from growing the real economy but instead was pumping money around only in the financial industry.
@@thomasl486 Like Trump and Putin loves? Where do you think Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and almost the entire Democratic Party and the Republican Party get their money from? And like the Danish politicians doesn't take money from big banks. Socialdemocrats are corrupt centrists who believe in neoliberalism. But good video for the american audience.
Regarding Danske Bank, what has that to do with "Bernie Asks Danish Politician: Why Is Denmark So Happy?"? Don't you think your statement, (that is correct) should be in an other video.
@@c3dk Nothing to do with it. Some Scandinavian citizen are not happy enough with the current system, which is on the top shelf in the world already, but want even stronger socialism, more like good old Cuba communism where the state controls absolutely everything. But these people are relative few.
Everybody knows that Nordic countries are the best and that they're really way ahead when it comes to education, ecology, health care, economy, and just as models of societies in general not based on profit at all cost but around the well being of their citizens. In Europe we don't look up anymore to USA ( a self centered violent country which economic model is based on social and racial inequalities, only driven by money and power) but to Nordic countries.
Denmark also has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the western world, something I admire them highly for, because it gives businesses a wonderful competitive advantage in their country and they don't have to deal with the paperwork or cost of healthcare, workers comp, etc.
Lol who the fuck cares. Their individual tax rates are like 4x that of the United States. If I went over there tomorrow with my consulting practice, my overall tax rate would multiply by literally four times because they would be looking at my personal income.
Hm idk about here in Aus whoever appears to be the most centrist generally wins or whoever has a better policies (the left one party here only lost cause they had a few policies the public didn’t like)
@@quelmod499 I think the reason behind this is peoples age. Old people generally tend to reject policies that are progressive or change the govt structures drastically. As most of the old people are kinda established they think the current situation is going well as long as I have a roof over my head and can have a full meal 3 times a day. And it's kinda true for everywhere in the whole world. The average population age in Italy being 45.4 I think that's the reason. Another problem many people have is they think loving your country = loving the govt. I love my country but hate my govt.
@@lewiedewymountaindewy bernie i guess had better policies. A bit drastic i guess. But those would have helped the countries citizen in the long run. I mean what bernie proposed is basically what the Germans are doing right now. They not only providing free education for themselves also for foregin students as well. Even the health coverages are way cheaper. Even though Scott Morrison isn't as good as your neighbor NZ's PM but you guys are lucky that atlest he isn't a trump 😅. And being centrist is far better than being rightwing. I know he was having a holiday while austraila was suffering from the worst wildfire. But i guess later he realized his wrong doing. I might be wrong though. As long as you dont elect people like paulina i bet australia will win many cricket world cups (by which i mean things will go normally). The closest thing to bernie you guys can get i guess is Steve Smith 😂 just from an outsider point of view.
Andrea Distaso And it’s good they do and I hope the rest of Europe is like that as well. We don’t need any more socialism and I’m glad America is smart enough to go down that corrupt path.
One thing: This isn't Socialism. This is Social Democracy. Massive step-up from Liberal Democracy, Neoliberal Democracy, and Representative Democracy, but still not Socialism. Socialism is Worker's Ownership of the Means of Production, not Social Welfare and State-Owned Vital Services. I would also like to point out that the USSR wasn't Socialist either, they were State Capitalist with Socialist intent. Bernie Sanders is not a Socialist (well, I think he probably is, but he doesn't campaign for Socialism), he's a Social Democrat. Denmark is not Left Wing. Denmark is Left-Leaning Centrist. America is Neoliberal, which is an Authoritarian Right-Wing ideology. Bernie Sanders, like Denmark, is a Left-Leaning Centrist. Not Left Wing. Although I suspect that's just how he presents himself to even stand a chance in his Far-Right country.
Not only is Bernie highly regarded in Denmark but he is also highly regarded in Germany as well. I know because I have lived in Germany for over 40 years. Every time people here hear my accent (when I am speaking German) they ask where I am from and when I say from the US but I came here to escape Trump they shake my hand, or pat me on the back etc. Hiking in the Alps this summer they even opened their rucksack and took out a bottle of wine and offered me a glass!
Larry Poorman First of you are not hanging with the right people Germany has a really small degree of socialism. And look at your socialist neighbour France which is dying because of open borders and socialism. When you tax the rich a lot, the rich escape to avoid high taxes so you lose money to fund socialist program.
Random.exe Obama is a puppet he didn t do shit he tried to implimant obamacare just to help big pharma to cell there suicidal pills. Trump is bringing back jobs from Mexico and China so more opportunity to work for everyone !
I've worked in Copenhagen for 7 months. Got some infection, so had to go to emergency room twice. I got a spot within an hour, without a local doctor or local registration, or a tax payer number. I suggested them using my corporate insurance, or European Insurance Card (private insurance). Doctor said healthcare in DK is free and let me go twice without changing a single DKK. Now that was cool.
NO! We expect a president to be honest and do the right thing for the people. The government is supposed to work for all of us, not just certain groups of rich and well connected. Maybe we do need saving from ourselves. We allowed total greed and corruption to take over.
Congress would block him. If you want actual change, you need to elect a president like Bernie Sanders as well as a senate and a house of representatives that support those ideas. Which isn't easy when 40 to 60% of your population is convinced that socialism is the work of the devil.
@@lepetitroquet9410 Exactly. We need to get more people like AoC elected. Or else it'll be worse than what the republicans did to Obama. Cause Obama was still a corporate and corrupt sell-out who took donations from wall street and had goldman sachs bankers in his cabinet etc. So Obama wasnt far away from republicans. And now imagine the fight and resistance that Bernie would face as president... our only hope is to elect as many people as AoC as possible. And to vote out and imprison the DNC staff
Denmark is over 86% homogeneous in its population demographic. United States isn't. There's unity and cohesion there. Denmark is smaller than Michigan.
An Irish guy from Sweden. On my second degree at the moment. Only pay for literature but that cost has been absorbed by the strong union here. I have access of up to 10 year allowance/grants while I study (enough for at least three degrees). My allowance amount takes into account if I have kids and increases accordingly. Student rebates are at times up to 50% on major activities like gyms and such. We pay between 30 - 32% tax but we don't have to put much effort into balancing out our taxes at the end of the year (takes about 2 minutes on the new app they released) so it's smoothly administrated, I hope for Americans to experience this in your future but I suspect that you need to aim for reducing military spending by up to half (a huge discussion with many moving parts) . Savings can be made as you are no longer the hegemonic power (except militarily) which the past 80 years of international intervention aimed at achieving.
The campaign funding and other similar corruption is their biggest problem if you ask me. When the politicians listen to the people what they want, then they can change the country.
autohmae the main issue is on how to achieve the policy changes. In my view, the political landscape has shifted to the right the past forty years putting Rep's on the extreme end of the spectrum, Dems firmly on the right and progressives being the new left (however centrist from a European perspective). Party lines should be drawn for the people's sake. It's then you push through full-packaged progressive views. Trust me, if all Americans get a taste of a "take it for granted" health care system in its full honest form, they'll fight tooth and nail to keep it. Compromise at your own peril. Don't give the Dems or Reps the ability to make it less than is needed because it's (ironically) what they'll complain about when they are attacking such a policy.
@@damien884 a good number of dems got elected with no corporate campaign funding and things like this happened: www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/30/18118158/house-democrats-anti-corruption-bill-hr-1-pelosi Now, if they get stuff done, we'll have to see. But it's a good sign.
What a liar you are, i am swedish myself and you know we dont pay just 30-32% tax... the income tax can be 30-50% and on top of this you have a 31.5% payroll tax, and also a 25% VAT tax you pay on everything. And the gas tax is unbearable which makes living in rural areas really expensive. The taxes in Sweden is insane.
TurdEater85 your figures suggest you're a business owner who doesn't appreciate that he's apart of a wider society. This conversation is not aimed at you. It's for middle to working class. An average salary in Sweden get you a good standard of living. If you have kids or want to reeducate, you are well looked after and that long term investment is worth it. You should try America and tell me what happens if you don't make it and then come back to us and compare and complain. And dude, the name. Rethink your name.
It is expressing that Denmark is the happiest country of the world because the people of Denmark are holistic in nature love and simple it is great and lovely for all
Americans: You guys pay a lot in taxes
Me, a Dane: Well you guys pay a lot for education and healthcare
Exactly, and their student loans are literally a nightmare
@yvwe 888 It helps every person.
I would simply like to keep my freedom of choice, rather than politicians deciding on my healthcare and education.
@@speakeasyusa
You still have choice. go to whatever doctor or school you want! We even have private schools you can choose to pay out of your own pocket if you are not satisfied with any public school in the country......
-You think our taxes are high... we think your healtcare bills, educational debts and job/wellfare securities and retirement plans are ludacris! :D
@@speakeasyusa Where do you get that you don't have a ''freedom of choice''? Like, you're not being forced to NOT pay for healthcare or for school in Denmark. The option is there if you want to do that stuff. Besides, there's no ''freedom of choice'' in America. It's an illusion. You think you have a choice when it comes to your education or healthcare in the US? All of them will mess you up. Literally all of them. Education is ridiculously expensive and so is healthcare. You literally have no other choice but to pay up and go bankrupt or pay up and have little to survive afterwards. That's our ''freedom of choice''.
As a Dane I’m happily paying taxes here so that everyone can get healthcare and education. It enriches us all in the end.
Jeg er dansker og vil ikke betale min skat med glæde. Et mere frit, uden statisme er hvad vi mangler
Daniel Holm spurgt
@@danielholm1512 Så skrid til Dubai og betal 0% skat, men husk også at de har ingen minimumsløn :)
@@javieronimo har Danmark teoretisk set heller ikke
This is wonderful and I would feel the same way if I were a citizen in Denmark. Unfortunately, in the US, people generally care only about themselves, not what is best for society. Take for example education. In the US, people go to university (paying way too much) with the dream to make big money. In Denmark, people are paid to university because your society understand the return value of highly educated citizens. It is best for society, then the individual. The shortsightedness of Americans and our societal structure annoys me to no end and makes me want to move to your great country. Danes walk the walk.
Pay 5000 a year for health insurance: YEAAAAAH
Pay 100 a year for health tax: BOOO THAT'S SOCIALISM
@@StellaLovesMusic25 Not in America, for the reasons I said
@@Theo-bk6qj A lot of people get it wrong from both sides
@@StellaLovesMusic25 Scandinavia as a whole is half the size of the failed colonies. And don't get me started on the European Union.
@@StellaLovesMusic25 You can't just make something up to be right. Here's why you're wrong:
- Socialist healthcare is not minimal (no clue where you got that from).
- Being able to choose your doctors doesn't matter and you can't do that with insurance anyway
- "You get what is available". This is also true for insurance because getting something that is not available is not possible
- Not treating you for a small wound is exactly what insurance does if you can't pay it. With free healthcare they will definitely treat it
- Bad doctors won't keep their jobs with free healthcare. The law won't be on their side; health insurance doesn't affect any part of their job and the government won't help them just because of that
Insurance costs you way more than free healthcare and they will only cover you after you pay a massive amount of money.
Now come up with a valid argument
wtf did the person even say
Lived in the US. Now live in Denmark. The real "American dream" is in Denmark.
Heard the same about all Scandinavian countries 👍
@@sm8tal229 The age for drinking legally in Denmark is 14 years, if you have a permit from your parents and when you turn 16 years old it legal without permit from parents and then a 16 yr old can buy "light" alcohol under 16,5%(beer, some wine, mixed drinks) and when you then turn 18 you can buy strong alcohol over 16,5% (Vodka, Whiskey, Rum)
greetings from a dane
@@Gulpguy but once people are 14 they drink a lot.
Bullshit! Denmark is the land of boredom! You never been to America! Denmark is just a drunken nation!
@@albertocassinelli1218 you've clearly never been to Denmark
The US and the world missed out on President Bernie. 😪
sadly, he wuldn't have won, america isn't ready for a president with any relation to the name "socialism". It's too conservative at the moment, maybe later, we will see another progressive like bernie sanders become president
@Apache Helicopter no one wants you outside, if you cannot see the ignorance in your comment it's probably better you stay in the US
@@janzentwong8094 perfectly said
@Apache Helicopter all you've just done is further proven your stupidity and ignorance.
@Apache Helicopter Bernie definitely didn't help his cause by wrongly calling himself a socialist- but it doesn't help when there are so many misinformed individuals who actually believe Sanders is a communist/socialist
Okay man, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, do you think social programs are communist? if so public education, infrastructure programs, and public services are communist by that logic...
Maybe we pay 40% in taxes, but at least we dont have 30K in student loans, when we are done with college
Its called SU and quicklån >:)... So some does
And you don't have to pay $470/month for medical insurance either
alberto cassinelli Funny how Denmark is number 1 on this life quality list, and Italy is on number 37. worldpopulationreview.com/countries/standard-of-living-by-country/
@@MrCaptainErik This is false my guy. Im pretty sure you are danish, so am i. 1. All Regular education (Folkeskole og Gymnasie) is free + you get money(more if you dont live at home, but you still get money if you live at home) . 2. Even tho alot of people dont know, it is actaully free to go to "universitet"(university). The only thing that cost money about university is furniture for your room and social activities. and what are you on about, SU is money given to you that you dont have to give back, quicklån is not needed for education. You can legit have 0$, do all your school and get your education without paying for anything that you have to(you can ofc pay for stuff like i said earlier). but in general if you dont spend any money and finish everything inkl. university you will come out with an education and money. The only way you get loans as a student is if you decide to, but you dont have to
No? Average is 44%
This is what an actual first-world country looks like.
@@tabbywarrior I guess you're out of luck, then.
@@Christopher-md7tf haha xD
@@tabbywarrior ahaha imagine not being ironic saying this
By definition the US is a first world country, but i get what you mean. Only 22 countries are considered full democracies. The US is not among them.
@@tabbywarrior What a backwards way of thinking.
I'm from Mexico, grew up at the border where a lot of people have the option to work in the US, and came to Denmark to study a master's. People from outside Europe do have to pay tuition, but I got a scholarship from the Danish government. Any other European: Greek, Spaniard, etc., also have free access to school up to the master's level. PhDs have a liveable salary.
And while studying a master's here, I worked at the same time to cover my rent and expenses. 15 hours a week was enough to live a comfortable life and even save for a flight back to visit Mexico during the holidays.
If I were studying and working in Mexico or the US, I'd easily have to work at least double the hours in order to make ends meet.
For me, the SU that the government gives me for studying is enough for me to cover my basic living needs. I can rent my own place, have food every day and have money for public transport to school.
Yes we are very priviliged here in Denmark. But its hard work that has gotten this country to where we can afford these luxuries.
As a Dane I hope you enjoyed your stay in our country. I hope the Danes were treating you well.
Lol “double” I live in the US and you might wanna triple that
...I'm a Dane.
I would wish Senator Sanders would stop referring to this as "socialism". Denmark doesn't have state ownership of the means of production. We're a market-economy.
What he really means is "social democracy" ... that's not socialism.
Peter Mogensen please forgive us , even our best politician sometimes are idiots
Well... I don't regard Bernie as an idiot ... but then... it is really shooting-yourself-in-the-foot, to give simple-minded people the excuse of screaming "socialism!" and "Venezuela" when what you are promoting really isn't that.
What you are talking about is communism.
No... Venezuela isn't communism either. The issue is that these countries which claim to want to try communism usually derails before they manage to get there. You know... "Everybody is equal, but some are more equal than others". Actual communism is an utopian idea. - just like anarcho-capitalism.
Humanity should have learned by now that these extreme ideologies are missing too many important things about the real world to actually work.
Communism is dictatorship (in most cases). In reality America has a "disguised" feudalism - like Europe in the middle ages. Denmark has democratic capitalism I'd say. Or actually limited monarchy - allowing the people some influence. This makes the elite larger than in the USA - but less powerful.
As said in Norway. Noone eats cake until all have bread!
Yooooo I'm coming for you dude, I swear I'm going to emigrate to Norway within the next 6 or 7 years. Then I can absorb as many Norwegian sayings as I wish
konan Zzz Come to finland because living in norway is really expensive
@@aaebsssb9914 Only if you're living on a finnish wage ;) Wages in Norway are quite a bit higher than in Finland.
@@Molly-ss4fw lol these countries are extremely expensive and Scandinavians are too introverted 😂
@@freepalestine7687 Not expensive for us people living in Scandinavia. Therefore when we go travel everything is cheap. Now leave me alone! I am introverted!
In America, Sanders is seen as a communist, because he stands for things even the AfD, Germanies most right wing party thats currently part of the Bundestag, takes for granted. What a joke.
Yep that's how fucking right wing America is don't get me wrong the afd are still just shitty right wing populists who use conspiracy nuts are their voter base but it's just fucking insane what is going on in america
Bro what are you saying the AfD is just a social right-wing party if you want an economical right wing party look at the FDP
@bagaea No but they actually are racist af and are known for that here
@Valo B you could have just said nazis. That pretty much describes everything you said in one word.
@@Artem-te1xn so they are just nazis? Or are they a little bit more right wing economically than the nazis were?
The fact that this guy isn't president is why the US is doomed.
"Doomed" how?
Yea how
@@Dweezeltje1 Because stupid dnc prefers biden than bernie
Denmark has very few obese people, nearly no illegals, and is 99% white.
Oh they also have less taxes on the rich than the US under Obama.
Not giving my opinion, just stating facts, do what you want with them.
@@moneyprintergobrr6501 half our population is at least overweight, and only 87 percent is Caucasian
I liked the humor Bernie was using here, because it's true how funny our broken system in America appears to the rest of the world.
L1N3R1D3R I like Bernie republican response I think it’s funny.
its is funny but .. for us looking in its like .. its funny..but at the same time its more laughing to conceal the pain because its like let us help you look we know how to do this we know this work just let us teach you and .... like you can lead a horse to water but you can make it drink.. and its frustrating to know that so many people are suffering and there nothing we can do about it ...because you cant or wont put the pride and the ego aside so ..its like watching someone re invent the wheel and going look you don't need to we have already done that here have some of our wheel we know they work we know they work well all you need to do it tailor it to what ever it is you need .. and then being told.. nah im good thanks my wheels are better than you'res and we're like..but they're square and don't roll .. and you like well yeah but you're wheels are stupid and look funny and i dont understand them... and where like...sigh... ok.. you do you i guess...
Once we have Single Payer/Medicare For All, then those greedy 'for profit' insurance/drug companies will be forced to compete against the actual real cost of healthcare instead of charging their greedy profit oriented monopoly prices. Toooo bad... soooo sad that they'll have to lower their greedy profits while having to provide higher quality care and service for those who choose to buy healthcare from them instead of using our Public Option of Medicare For All. I'm sure the greedy Republicans and dumb Trump Apologists will all cry bitter tears for those poooor greedy Billionaire CEO's! Sooooo sad.
- Citizens: SPREAD THE WORD! BE SURE AND HAVE THIS CONVERSATION WITH YOUR FAMILY, YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR CO-WORKERS. THE MEDIA IS OWNED, BOUGHT AND PAID FOR, BY CORRUPT BIG PHARMA AND GREEDY INSURANCE COMPANIES. THE MEDIA WON'T ALLOW THIS INFORMATION TO BE BE SHOWN. IT'S UP TO YOU AND ME TO SPREAD THE WORD! Go to Bernie Sanders website. Go to Thom Hartmann's website. Go to PatrioticMillionaires .org. TH-cam Dr Richard Wolff. Inform yourselves! Because if you don't even know what your choices are, then you have None. THINKING IS PATRIOTIC!
@@modemmark421 get rid of campaign funding by voting for politicians who don't take corporate funding, this means the politicians will actually listen to the people, so they can do what the people want.
@@autohmae - well said. Please TH-cam "Nick Hanauer the pitchforks"
of PatrioticMillionaires .org.
SPREAD the word!
While what Jørgensen said is true, and those things are huge reasons we're happy... I find these videos always fail to mention the Danish mentality and culture.
We have this thing called Law of Jante (Not an actual law, but a mindset), which basically means no one is better than the man next to him. Whether you end up working as a doctor or a sewage worker, there's a need for you and you're important for society to run smoothly. The doctor might have a bigger income, but that comes down to the fact his work is a lot more complicated. But the doctor is not a better human being than the sewage worker. A doctor and a sewage worker can easily be friends, as you're rarely identified by your work, but as a human.
This leads to Danes usually just being content with their lives. In other words, happy with how their life is going. It's not about making as much money as possible and have a huge house with a pool... And whatever else is in the "American dream".
I don't believe we'll see Americans adopt that mindset even with Bernie in the White House. But I ope he'll win and he manage to change the things he wants to get changed in America. The higher taxes are indeed worth it and I think America would greatly benefit from doing something similar.
I like this comment. I'm American and live by that "law". Its true. Thx 4 sharing
@@thesilentdiva You could reduce your armed forces with 50% and still be the most powerfull country in the world. Imagine what that money alone could do in healthcare or aducation..?
@@anders1621 Exactly.
I feel like a lot of americans don't want to tax the rich or to sign whatever other potential law that is against the rich just because they want to live the american dream (being rich/making it big), while almost all of them will never achieve that. If they would be realistic and just go with what would be best for the majority of people then that would go a long way. Having a billionaire like Trump who is also born rich as president is terrible because he is so out of touch with the general population. He has never lived like the people in his country, not one second.
Well Bernie lost and now I ask you sir.. can you refer me to any good Danish Dating sites I’m looking for dual citizenship
Socialism and communism are the same thing in America, apparently.
Well kind of, socialism is the phasing stage from capitalism to communism
@@everyporism but you could use that reasoning for like anything. One thing could eventually lead to another but it doesn’t mean it will. Capitalism could potentially jump right to communism, it all just depends on leadership.
Well most soviet Block countries were named as a socialist republik so the communists used the term but it had very far from socialism
@@somuchsoul3041 not really, socialism HAS to happen in order for capitalism to smoothly transition to communism. Unless of course you don’t want to have a “smooth” phasing stage then yeah you can go straight in to communism lol
Democratic socialism=socialism that hasn't gained power yet. Socialism=Communism at the beginning of socialism.
What a lovely conversation between two good-hearted humans.
Good hearted is the best thing I can say about Bernie.
who is the idiot that told you Dan Jørgensen is a good-hearted human?
@@gman4255 Oops. Guess he seemed like a good-hearted human from this video. I should look into him more.
Good hearted Bernie Sanders who praised the current Venezuelan goverment, right...
@@gman4255 what did he do?
we could have had Bernie, twice:\
the fact that we screwed up twice makes me depressed every time i think about it
I cry every time :(
@Apache Helicopter You dont care bout anyone but your self, your opinion dosnt matter.
@Apache Helicopter yeah thank god we didn't try to emulate the 2nd happiest country in the world man. sheesh what a disaster that would've been
too bad hes a shit canadite😂
Scandinavia is the best place to live in. To me, that's a fact.
All the time locked inside because it is too cold outside! You spend your whole life inside.
Let's not forget about Finland! Finland is not a scandinavian country.
@@jensjensen9035 Shut the hell up
To UN and many other polls, thats also the facts.
@@tuke4202 well It's pretty much the same as Scandinavia
americans in denial about socialized healthcare are comical at his point.
I'm from Denmark. and we have it, and guess what doesn't work. I've got privat health insurance, so i don't have to deal with the extreme waiting lists..
@@TVhuckleberry works perfectly fine in australia mate.
@@antisocialfb6005 No it works for you
others are maybe not as lucky as you
@@gman4255 there are some minor wait times for certain things yes. the fact it is free far outweighs every wait time. if its critial care surgery you arent going to wait. if its cancer operations, you arent going to wait long. come survey some aussies about our medicare system. they will argue were the luckiest country in the world in relation to that.
@@TVhuckleberry works absolutely fine in turkey, never waited more than 15 minutes
Bernie would just be another happy politician serving its people if he where to live in the nordic countries
That's one thing that I really respect about him. He could probably easily become a politician in these countries that he supports (the only thing in his way might be a "naturalization" process), but he continues to fight in the US for the common man even if many people can't see that.
He'd be a conservative in the nordic countries.
Didn't he get rich off of his campaign?
@@gnaskar more like a center left wing politician.
@@gnaskar he would probably be considered a social democrat
The American dream concept is more prevalent in Denmark than America. You can be born in a poor family, but because of the far-reaching welfare system you can reach your dream with much less effort than in other countries. Whatever challange you face, there's help for you.
Paying taxes is not about enriching your individual opportunities, it's about enriching the society as whole. And when you do that, what you pay comes back twice.
Fax
Problemet er bare at vi har lukket en masse mennesker ind som ikke bidrager til fælles kassen - så pga af alle tosserne på både højre og venstre fløjen der agetere for åbne grænser - enten fordi de ikke vil stemples som utolerante af deres spelt bolle venner eller fordi de vil have billig arbejdskraft til dem selv og deres venners firmaer - er det fantastiske system vores bedste forældre skabte til os, ved at krakelerer om ørene på os.
D T May I ask you where you’re from?
@@DT-bp2om dit svar blev slettet af pootube, så jeg kunne ikke læse det hele, men jeg fik fat i hoved pointen tror jeg.. Og hvis du seriøst prøver at sælge mig den neo liberale myte om at indvandring fra ikke vestlige lande gavne os økonomisk eller på nogen anden måde så må jeg sgu bare sige DOOH 🤦🏼♀️ hvis du vitterligt stadig tror på den løgn - så er du uden for hvad rationelle mennesker kalder pædagogisk rækkevidde.
Jeg har ikke noget imod den enkelte indvandrer (har flere venner fra Iran især) men at hoppe på narrativet om at det gavner os at lukke kæmpe grupper af mennesker ind i landet som hader vores kultur og ikke føler noget ansvar eller nogen taknemmelighed over for de medborgere som har åbnet deres hjemland for dem... Undskyld mig men det er sgu for naivt dude.
Og jeg tror de fleste kvinder i vesten der nu ikke kan gå sikkert på gaden mere - vil være uenige med det globalistiske mantra om at mangfoldighed er en styrke.
I Sverige hvor jeg arbejder med voldsramte kvinder er voldtægts raten steget 1535 % siden de åbnede grænserne.. Så igen undskyld mig hvis jeg ikke køber dine neo liberale løgne.
@@DT-bp2om Hvorfor undersøger du ikke bare statistikkerne istedet ? Så er det nemt at se, hvem der begår dem, og der er en bestemt gruppe massivt overrepræsenteret.
Seneste publikation fra Danmarks Statistik (2018), Personer dømt for Voldtægt, efter oprindelsesland. Danmark: 38, Vestlige Lande: 2 Ikke-Vestlige Lande: 29, Samlet = 69
Andel af befolkningen efter oprindelse: Danmark: 87% Vestlige Lande: 5% Ikke-Vestlige Lande: 8% , 29*100/69 = 42.02%, altså begår 8%, 42% af alle voldtægter i Danmark.
Kan ikke linke direkte, da youtube sætter kommentare med links, i spam-kø til manuel godkendelse, men du kan finde de officielle statistikker ved at søge på statistikkens navn: "Skyldige personer i alderen 15-79 år efter overtrædelsens art og oprindelsesland" på google eller anden søgemaskine.
And yeah; Dan Jørgensen and the Social Democratic Party are practically considered left-leaning moderates in Denmark. Goes to show how skewed the political line in the US is.
It's like that all around scandinavia!
"socialdemokratiet" are the worst! why them, they lie and take peoples money
@@Tetra_Elementra nah chief, that aint it.
Yep, or in other words: the Democratic Party in the U.S. would be one of the most right-wing parties in Scandinavia.
@@Tetra_Elementra probably the worst argument i have ever heard
Bernie makes me glad to be Canadian too. Even our Conservative party is far to the left of the Democrats in USA on the issues that really count.
Obviously big monied interests are manipulating that 2 party system with ease
I'm from Denmark and I love Canadians for some reason. I have never been there, but I feel spiritual connected with them. Like a soul-mate-country.
@@Birkix I've always felt the same! Canadians are cool!
Bullshit. The Conservatives are right-wing dogshit here too.
Coming out of switzerland, in sentence I heard a few times from US visitos: "Where are all the homeless people?" - well we take care of them.
Is it not more so that the risk of becoming homeless is much less.
Wow you're special what's the population of your country. If you can think at all check how many homeless in blue states vs
Red the wonderful socialist Gov. Of old man Biden has t even mentioned homeless , he's too busy allowing more people in for aid and your buddy Sanders. By the way if I. Old send the old freak over for you I gladly would.wonder why there's more patents EVERY year in the us than anywhere. Oh. Maybe because people are free to thi k for themselves while the rest of the have free health care wow
Y the way I had e health insurance and I'm very happy maybe you should hear the whole story onzteD of just a few mommas girls
@@jamescampbell8845 What the fuck did you just write. I had a stroke only from reading this. Imagine not being able to type 1 understandable sentence in your own language while talking about free thinking and ideologies in the USA. Kkona brudah.
@@adambalogh8728 can't read huh?
@@jamescampbell8845 now speak english, your comment was funny because it had so many grammar mistakes but now write it good so I can understand it
There is 0% tax in North Korea
There's pretty much zero percent anything in North Korea . . .
Lol kim
The tax is collected by the executioner, mostly heads. The people have little else to give.
Yea I feel like the only video game they play there I
KIM JONG UN IS THE BEST AT FOOTBALL HE PLAY AND WIN EVERYTHING NO NEED TO PLAY GAME NOW GO BACK TO WORK
All hail
"a whole lot less stress", probably goes a long way in preventing 'gun violence' also
It's funny because Norway have very relaxed gun laws, all you need to do is provide a reason for buying a gun and do a strict background check. Most Norwegians don't have guns because they don't need one since violent crime is extremely uncommon.
guns are imposible to get in denmark and have always been imposible to get so there is not really any demand for them. ive never seen a gun outside a museum here in denmark. if tyou have anything on your criminal record you cant get a gun. we dont need guns for self defence because no one has one so there is no reason to have one.
You don't need a gun ! Danes can buy a self destruction guns every day. It is called Tuborg Carlsberg Aaborg Gamle Dansk …..it is a slowly dying . It is called liver cirrhosis . In Sweden and Norway ''guns'' are more expensive but hey are richer than Danes and can drink more and die faster .
@@albertocassinelli1218 well danes can drink at buy at 16 i mean the earlyer the better
I know! The regime makes money out of liver cirrhosis.The Scandinavian social democracy wants everybody drunk! You are all drunk! You born drunk procreated by drunk women! Sweden and Norway the worse ! Norway so beautiful . So boring . Everybody is drunk. Alcohol is so expensive . They sell oil and import alcohol ! Good business.
Poor Bernie... Born in the wrong country.
Or... Born in the right one, to teach and fight for everyone.
You are highly admired in Norway as well! And you are such an important voice for America. Your voice makes the world a better place. Keep up the good spirit you have!
Good thing he never got nominated for president. Twice! 🤡
This is the world we need.A humane society.
Tax to GDP ratio at 45% lmao... I don't think anyone sane and reasonable would want others to suffer or think that humans cannot be more humane. But some has already realised the nature of humans - virtually everyone operates on greed. If you tax the rich too high, they will find a way to shelter their money in tax exempt securities or invest it elsewhere. The utopian-ish vision of the social liberal fails to factor in history. It is seldom that we have seen the government running institutions better than the market. The market is responsible for lifting out billions out of poverty.
@@countblobula that is your own assessment- years of empirical evidence says otherwise. Tax cuts were tried in the Hoover, JFK, Reagan, Bush, and Trump administrations. In each case, the government collected more tax revenue the following financial years. The rich aren’t chess figures you can move around to make your vision prevail. They can and have acted contrary to the liberal vision.
@@countblobula not without ruining the fabric of the country and the principles it was founded upon. Much like you can eliminate gun violence by taking away guns and giving extremely harsh sentences to those who keep and bear arms. Even if you do that- they can leave the country entirely- much like they did in socialist nations throughout history. You can’t tax human capital to that point and expect it to stay with your vision- it is virtually impossible.
@@countblobula I was describing the worst possible scenario. But even if you put up with them and somehow you manage to get more money without them investing it in municipal bonds and buying politicians and lobbyist to influence congress, you end up with the a bigger and much bloated government running institutions. I’m sure in Denmark and other homogeneous societies people can trust the government more- after all it is relatively easy to keep them in check. In America- it is virtually impossible- 330K people that are diverse in their worldview.
@@milkiasgebreyesus2202 ur guys are all missing this one point. look these huge companies and millions of startups are what provide employment for millions of people. If u increase tax on businesses and rich people, they will lesser money to invest in businesses for expansion and creating more jobs. thats why no president will ever increase taxes on the rich. cuz everyone relies on them for jobs so they are very important for a functioning country. Plus if uv worked hard and smart enough to get that much money and a huge business i feel u deserve to keep and enjoy that money
Finland: We are not part of Scandi....Ah, fuck it.
I am so thankful for Senator Sanders. He gives America hope for greater civilization with a thriving population, not a few people with exorbitant wealth at the expense of the suffering of many.
And he got fucking shafted every single time
Their plan with school is amazing, you're practically pushing for more future doctors, dentists, teachers, etc.
I'm from Bangladesh and I live in Denmark. I'm really grateful to be here. Denmark as a country is probably one of the best countries in the world in every aspects. Ever since coming here, I've loved every thing about the country. It's like I'm in a dream. Another thing I want to share is the fact that every parent in Denmark encourages their children to learn cycling from an early. I can't explain how I feel every time I see someone doing it. This habit of being concerned about the environment or doing what is right is what the world needs to become a better place
In Denmark the tradition with using the bicycle has nothing to do with climate change.
We have in Denmark had tradition for using the bicycle since before anyone had cars.
The reason is simple, Denmark is mostly flat land without neither hills or mountains, hence easy to use a bike. With a good infrastructure and due to high prices of vehicles and transportation and because Denmark is a small country where everything is close by. Having and using a bicycle makes a lot of good sense.
Has nothing to do with climate and more to do with convenience and economy.
Vi cykler fordi vi ikke har råd til bil og forældrene lærer os det så de ik skal køre os
So sweet !!
Visitor in th US for a few years. Yes Denmark and Canada are where I’m going!
Who says we want you? We don't take refugees 😉
@@SusseBo Pleeeease!! I am very capable and will help bring an end to the fossil fuel use there XD. Canada wanted me but I wanna check out your place before I go there again. I can't live on in the US, help!!
@@waldenli9232 hi 🇨🇦 Canada takes many refugees, but scene is how you are not a refugee you have to go through the immigration process. I'm sure Canada would accept a hardworking American immigrant. We accept 40,000 Syrians a year. *Things about Canada* . Yes, it's frickin cold in winter and yes, it's very hot in summer. Health care is free (tax based) and so is education pre postsecondary (also taxed base). Most provinces are increasing their minimum wages, Ontario's is currently sitting at $14. Still not as high as I would like it to be, but meh. Go and apply, see what happens. I wish you the best of luck. :)
@@Person-ng5hp Thanks! Canada looked welcoming indeed. She paid me to do research over there when I was an undergrad, and I spent the summer in Toronto. Apparently the best time to invite people there hahaha. I was promised with scholarship to go to grad school there, too, but unfortunately I came to the US as there weren't many labs in my field in Canada at the time. But that's still a place I'd hope to settle in! We'll see :)
Walden Li you are going to regreed to come to denmark. THEY ARE LYING BIG TIME
How can Bernie not even be in the presidential election? It’s so obvious that he’s the best American politician, who really cares about his country and wants to make it better from everyone. Ah right not for everyone only for 99% but the problem is that this democracy is ruled by the other 1%.
The average amount of taxes paid in Denmark is really just 20% or so higher than in the US.
It doesn't take much.
I mean 20% higher is a LOT. A sudden change like that would probably completely topple the US economy, but it wouldn't harm to slowly move towards it
@@KeiwaM
It all depends on what the tax is used for. Some industries would lose on it while others would gain on it. But the economy as a whole would not be significantly affected. Unless the money disappears in corruption.
Oh yea, JUST 20% higher. No biggie
America is basickly every man for him or herself compared to Scandinavia. Edit: Thank you for you likes and opinions people 👏
Exactly and they call that freedom...worlds most brainwashed people
@@snippidippi agreed
@Offset idk about the others but i really cant understand what you are trying to say
@Offset Same here, this Danish society does NOT help people, that be sick, unemployed, or similar But they take every ounce of freedom and a minimum og 48% tax (to a maximum of a whopping 68%!) and not 40 as some idiots claim, if you feel really dumb and cant control your own life THEN Denmark is a good place, but not if your a thinking adult, then it is hell
@@Samon187 You should try being sick and unemployed in America, then...
I'm from Bahrain. An Arab country many would call "third-world". We have free education for everyone who lives in Bahrain, even non-Bahrainis. We have free healthcare in both government hospitals and health centers, including major operations, and health used to include non-Bahrainis until about a year ago. We never paid any taxes until only the beginning of last year, which is only 5% and it does not include items of necessities. I can see why Danes are happy. We are happy too
Denmark is the best place to live the American dream, I've heard.
If u r white n not POC😀
It is more difficult to fail in Denmark and the Nordic countries. But at the same time, it's harder to succeed really well.
As he said in the video, if you belong to the 1%, it is better to live in the United States.
@@user-sl4tw4ol5h even more so than in the US? I know here we don't technically have racist laws anymore, but certainly biased application of them.
You heard wrong then.
American dream: if you work hard you will succeed.
If your idea of succes is having a mansion, lots of wealth, fame.
Denmark really isn't the place to be. By the legislation put on companies and the taxes mentioned you will come nowhere near success.
Denmark is a good place to be if you desire living in small but very expensive houses or flats driving small price range cars and travelling moderately for mild budgets.
Denmark is the right place for you if you desire to work 40 hours a week and where 20 of those hours every week is not worked for your own wealth and health but for others and those others you're paying for are mostly people that hasn't benefitted society.
The following:
Education, healthcare, military, police, justice system, environment and infrastructure takes up 40% of our taxes.
60% of the taxes paid in Denmark goes to Social security and public adminstration.
Stop this bs misinformation campaign. Wealth ain't something that just comes to your aid because you want it.
wealth of society is the overall wealth created by every individual of that society.
Why Denmark has become a wealthy country is because we have ensured using our ressources to its maximale capacities. We are wealthy because a lot of people are willing to work and work hard and effecient.
We are wealthy because we aren't overpopulated. If we were more people it wouldn't mean higher gdp per capita but a lower gdp per capita.
Thanks to our low population, our overall hard work ethics, our homogene population (not multiculteral), and reasonable traditions we are one of the best countries.
@Roy Ellingsen not if you get rich
Denmark is AWESOME!!! 🇩🇰🇺🇸🇩🇰🇺🇸🇩🇰
Denmark is a GREAT nation
I would gladly pay more in taxes to live happily in the U.S. i.e., stress and debt free.
The Engineer Then dont go to Denmark. Bernie sanders and dan Jørgensen are not telling the truth. Do your reesurch. Bernie sanders is an dangerous and evil man
She is lying 😊. I just got my degree in electronic engineer and guess what nooo debt after the education. And i gladly pay 39 % in tax of the 480000 kr a year i earn so my kid can get to school and get free health care 😊. I live a very low stressful life
jeanette strauss
*research
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If you are going to lie and be jealous then at least do it right
Flemming could not be more correct. Denmark is the best
At The age of 35 I decided to change the career path I had taken and go back to school, at the age of 36 I got my high school diploma and now at the age of 37 I study psychology in the university of Trondheim NTNU. Everything payed by the danish tax money, I even get payed 1000$ a month to go to school, when I finish I will go back to Denmark and start my new career as a Psychologist and pay back to the danish society by paying my taxes, giving others the opportunity that I got. I love the Nordic model.
Many countries around the world have healthcare for all, free education, a living wage and 4 weeks paid vacation, so why can't we?
Cause your corporate mainstream media is owned by large private profit-driven corporations who's best interest (maximisation of profits for their CEO and share holders) is in a direct conflict with the best interest of the general populations. So they intentionally misinform and brainwash their viewers. And its the same case with the other corporations (Oil and gas, banks, insurance, pharmaceuticals, military industrial complex etc.), their interest (maximisations of profits for their CEO's and share holders) is in a direct conflict with the best interest of the general population. So they bribe and corrupt politicians to make them work for them, instead for their constituents, and by doing this they control the country. The system is inherently broken and needs to be fundamentally changed, if the american people ever want a fair representation of their interests and desires
(closes in on microphone)
*wrong*
People in France are protesting against their neoliberal government headed by a banker currently giving shit away to the rich. Nobody in those protests was there in a valiant stand against poor people.
@@moffig1 Hey! That, ^^^ up there ,,, nearly gave me goose bumps. Srsly! It seems I end up going like pc files (sub-folder of a sub-folder, so) meaning When questioned by friend they sometimes challenge, I fall for it!! Somewhere right about there I gave up what "floor" I had to a practical joker that just don't get it yet, but soon will learn to understand how freaking important what we are talking about, it is an overall change of course and how dire this place we call home can get. Greed is a mental illness! :-) Once you get infected with the "greed bug" you're a gonner! I need to stop.. lol! have a great day!
Because the corporate masters say so and most of our legislators do their bidding because they are owned by said corporate masters. I'd say that's a great argument for electing uncorrupted progressives to leadership.
@handsoffmygun MF You keep repeating that Denmark and other Nordic countries are on the brink of collapse. By what measure? And where did you pick up a falsehood like that? Public debt in Denmark is around 36% of GDP. In Sweden it's around 41% of GDP. I'll agree that France has a problem. Their public debt is a staggering 97% of GDP. And yes, they have the higest taxes of all in combination with relatively low minimum wages and higher unemployment rates. That's causing them problems. Btw. I also believe that protesting is a stronger part of their culture. Bottom line is you can't compare France directly to the Nordic countries. US public debt to GDP is around 107% at the moment. I'm afraid the shit will hit the fan in US a lot sooner than it will here. And that is of course bad news for everyone since US is such a large economy.
Proud to be danish-American !!!!! 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I saw a statistic that showed Denmark created more millionaires per capital (last year? Not sure) than did the USA. So much for a “regressive” tax system.
Show the statistic please.
Still better than the US, not that it’s much of an achievement
They are millionaires in name only. They pay so much in taxes their actual cashflow is likely a lot lower.
@@Houlgravely Yeah and they still live like kings while the poor get a better standard of life. No one is ever gonna need millions and millions while some people just need an extra 500 a month to get by
@@skrillah6259 Not everyone gets to sit on the beach and rake in money for doing nothing. People who make the kind of money your talking about have to spend money to make money. Sometimes even at the cost of any real profit margin. Yet all the government does is tax them into oblivion because the poor can't contribute to the tax pool in any meaningful way.
Denmark is a great place, DONT believe The Trump trolls in the comments. Bernie is right and spot on. Vote Bernie 🔥🔥🔥
dane here, from a point of view if all countries lived like Scandinavia there would be a decrease of 67% in poverty, just saying
@Ramadan Steve Nah logic speaks for itself here. Just look at the differences.
@Ramadan Steve You don't have to. We are used to Americans being kinda ignorant:)
@Ramadan Steve Well. I still embrace and accept your ways. You guys shouldn't be naive. Theres a reason why Scandinavian countries are so wealthy. Your society would do so well with our model.
@Ramadan Steve Nahh got plenty of time, i even get money while doin' it.
I used to wonder why in American movies and tv shows, a lot of (adult) people always had roommates. Turns out a lot of people don’t make enough money to buy or even rent a house on their own.
Not true. Maybe some people just hate living alone. Besides, living with a roommate, especially in college, can teach you a lot of valuable things. Have you ever stopped to consider that?
@@simplesimon8255 In college yes, but I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have their own place after they start working.
@@OP-1000 I do
Right wing is about looking after yourself, left wing is about everyone looking after everyone. So selfish people will always lean towards the right wing. They aren't necessarily wrong, both systems work. It just depends on what kind of world you want to live in.
Bullshit! Left-wing is about state regulation and control over the people, you pay large or full taxes and if you are lucky (Venezuela is a prime example) you get less than you give. Right-wing is basically the opposite of what I just mentioned, little to no countries today have this implemented. I would move tomorrow if I could, but high taxes prevent me (Sweden)...
@@richhich327 You only get less than what you give, if your government is corrupt and spends tax payer money on golfing. Oh wait. That's America.
@@richhich327 //
Rich Hich
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Bullshit! Left-wing is about state regulation and control over the people, you pay large or full taxes and if you are lucky (Venezuela is a prime example) you get less than you give.//
Left-wing is about freedom and ability to serve other people. The best way I can describe left-wing is to love others as you love yourself. A very Christian principle. Right-wing is all about being selfish, greediness and exploitation.
//Right-wing is basically the opposite of what I just mentioned, little to no countries today have this implemented. I would move tomorrow if I could, but high taxes prevent me (Sweden)...//
Right-wing is about deregulation and enslavement to the Oligarchy. You cannot live in a world free of regulation that is not how human nature work.
//
But human beings are social animals, you can't truly live independently of others, its a fairy story, a spook. The only way to truly be free would be to abandon society, which fair play to you if you want to but being anprim is pretty cringe tbh.
@@ShroomRPG and every social sciences proves that point
Social Democracy works better than Neoliberalism and Conservatism. Why is this so hard for some to grasp?
I suspect decades of intentional fear-mongering, brainwashing and misinformation from corporations and billionaires made people just automatically shy away whenever someone suggests socialistic policies. Its really sad actually :/
FDR was one of the most popular presidents in US history and he made a ton of progressive socialistic policies. But the corporate media wouldnt benefit from that, they benefit from fascism and predatory capitalism, so thats what they subtly push
Why is it so hard to grasp that denmark only has a population around 6million while America has 325 million. It just doesnt work here.
Sui_Jay India has free healthcare and they have 1 billion people.
@@frenchflag9390 Do you see what they live in though? Dirty everywhere, buildings suck, they dont look too healthy. Overall most the people are poor.
Sui_Jay Because other causes exist.That doesn’t mean that free healthcare causes that.
That was a very positive conversation. I hope the rest of the world will realize that this is the first step to a better world. On top of this Denmark is one of the leaders in green energy. Nothing but respect for Denmark...
I wish we had that kind of life in the US, but we'll always have idiots saying it's horrible
@Connor Nielsen ...For the rich and upper classes
The youtube algorithm recommended me this, during the masked Bernie meme
Why does mainstream media ignore Senator Sanders?
Because they are part of the establishment.
Tara!? DUH!! Srsly? (from a great post above by A ROWING FISH ,,,,
A Rowing Fish 1 hour ago
Cause your corporate mainstream media is owned by large private profit-driven corporations who's best interest (maximization of profits for their CEO and share holders) is in a direct conflict with the best interest of the general populations. So they intentionally misinform and brainwash their viewers. And its the same case with the other corporations (Oil and gas, banks, insurance, pharmaceuticals, military industrial complex etc.), their interest (maximizations of profits for their CEO's and share holders) is in a direct conflict with the best interest of the general population. So they bribe and corrupt politicians to make them work for them, instead for their constituents, and by doing this they control the country. The system is inherently broken and needs to be fundamentally changed, if the American people ever want a fair representation of their interests and desires
Wrong! I bet you don't even know the definition of communism. When has Bernie Sanders ever used Venezuela as an example for his ideology? He always uses other Western countries as examples (Canada, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, United Kingdom, France, Germany, etc.)
Venezuela is going through that crisis greatly by the sanctions imposed by the U.S and blockades to public assets abroad, along with the UK and many other right wing countries' collusion. Argentina just went from socialism to capitalism and things got much tougher than they were before, there's a much worse economic crisis. The 'establishment' or elites, demonize socialism and sabotage those countries that have it as a practice, because it's clearly not convenient for their interests, well said by Obama back in 2015.
He is a real threat to the status quo.
Great editing. "IS THIS THE COUNTRY WE WANT TO LIVE IN?"
I would rather be paying down my student debt for the 20+ years!
Yes because their your taxes go back to you in that way if the gov raises the min wage to 15+ an hour and that will afford the taxes to go up to pay for Medicare for all and free college instead of giving tax breaks to the rich who then still out sourcing their jobs and artificially growing their stocks by buying them with that money that's why the stock market is volitile right now not just the economic policy of the republican party
The stock market is a Ponzi scheme gambling casino. And the rich assholes are in charge of that now too.
@@markgigiel2722
Exactly!
@@j.calvintaylor3541 How would increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour suddenly pay for free medicare and education????????
They forgot to mention that we actually save a lot of money on for example healthcare by having it funded by our taxes. In the US, you don't get the same amount of healthcare for the same amount of money.
“That’s the reality of socialism” “is that the direction we want to go in?” all of Gen Z scraping the bottom of the barrel and fearing death from climate change: YES!
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NO WE DONT WANT SOCIALISM THIS GENERATION IS CRAZY
What about the people who do not live in urban areas? Who do not attend college? Do they have to pay for your desires?
@@daviddornslifematter7601 what about those who don’t drive, or even use public transport and instead cycle, should they still have to pay taxes that then will get spent on building roads?
@@Ewan_Tyler public transportation should also become privatized. There are some government services like the military and the police that we can't privatize, but people should not fund other peoples' desires.
I live and work as a doctor in Denmark, and I approve this video, and the message it conveys.
At least 60% of people who has watched this are all danes
Which is awesome, because than Bernie knows what we think (the commoners) IF he reads the comments :)
Idk actually I'm French, it's important to educate yourself about other countries, in particularly nordic ones because they are such a good example for all of us
Daan respect to you good man or woman
Assuming you're a Dane, why do Norwegians and Danes have such a fascination with what other countries think of them? Thank you
konan Zzz because no one ever talks about us but we constantly talk about other countries.
It’s like being cool enough to be at the other first world countries’ party but no one cares that you’re there.
We crave attention as a nation.
To me freedom is to have a peace of mind about how you are going to get by in near future. Fear is the true enemy of freedom.
I think it's a testament to danes' happiness that the comment section here hasn't turned into political spitfire. Good job people.
many upsides, imagine a country where most people are healthy and happy. id be happy to pay money to be around healthy and happy people
You don't have to pay...remember, it's FREE!
not even that their healthy and happy that's good but what enables those two traits is education. without education people will shoot themselves in the foot over and over and over and by the time they learn from it, their life will be over. knowing what makes people healthy and happy is needed, and so without any education to guide anyone here in the states. we just roam around from idea to idea hoping something will work. when we get people who are educated, the dumb start attacking because they have no idea how anything works. the media calls it 50/50 and this is another major problem because the media is controlled by the 1%.
we could just look at any other country and just take some of their ideas and build on them but brain deads can't seem to understand simple. 30% of the US are brain dead zombies that will say yes to anything the dear leader says. 30% of the country is under educated.
it would be great if these people would just go live in a cave somewhere where no one has to hear their ideas. where they can be oppressed all they want at their own time.
lastly it's more towards Tracy, it's not free. they do pay taxes, it's just FAR cheaper then anything we have because their isn't a greedy ass company trying to make as much money and caring as little as possible.
Don't take this the wrong way, but take it the right way. You really should go live where you think you'll be happiest. Plenty of people make that leap and are glad for it.
Omega Point Singularity,
so do I.
Tracy Johnson,
I think they meant paying more taxes.
Forgot to mention Weed. The police hardly get any calls. Low crime rate, not like here.. Peace
what about weed? plenty of people smoke weed in denmark, it's just that no one gives a crap
@@johannesvahlkvist Some people in Christiansborg seem to care because they are quite busy sending the police on daily crack downs in Christiania. The joke is they mostly show up with demolition equipment and a flat-bed truck. Spend 30-60 minutes tearing down fibre board and pallet wood crap and hauling it off. No dogs, no searches just some guys in full riot gear with sledge hammers and a foul mood.
@@Pow3llMorgan
"Christiansborg"
That's new to me. It's hilarious, excellent!
The Jackanapes Christiansborg is the name of the parliament building. It’s really not that funny. Construction of it in 1167.
@@charisma-hornum-fries Thanks. I did not know that.
I was a Trump supporter until I realized how genuine of a person Bernie was. He has always been fighting for the working class.
You are clueless if you think that Bernie is genuine. He is a big fraud.
I was a Bernie supporter until I realized how dangerous he was for the country. I wouldn't say I'm a Trump supporter now, per se, but I would have voted for him.
I wish we can achieve at least half of what Denmark has accomplished in terms of providing care to its public.
That’s literally the same as Finland, Finland is the happiest country in the world too 😗✌🏻
J&A GAMES Denmark is the same as finalnd but worse
@@hugokam7762 You might want to look up the effects of living above the polar circle/55th northern parallel, maybe even ask yourself why Alaska is the US state with the most suicides and highest consumption of anti-depressants by miles. Who'd have thought that very little sunlight for just about 6 months is horrible for your mental wellbeing, especially if you are susceptible to seasonal depression, which is a physiological diagnosis not psychiatric and is also near endemic in northern societies, like Alaska or the Nordic countries.
A heartfelt congratulations from Denmark to Finland. You have earned that title!
@@hugokam7762 yeah, a big amount of people commeut suicide every year, like it's overwhelming
Yeah im Dane but when I came to Finland it was the best experience ever!
Of course they're happy.... they don't suffer unnecessarily or die prematurely because they can't afford healthcare. They get good educations and aren't saddled with debt when they finish. They get several weeks of paid vacation per year and they have paid family leave. They, unlike here in America, invest in their citizens and do things to keep them happy and healthy.
Sharon Formation wake UP you are Dreamliner, bit sounds good. I live there. It is not true
@@jeanettestrauss1311 lol riiight
same in sweden.
jeanette strauss you don’t live here. If you did you”d know it is the truth.
@@katrinespiegelhauer8625 wrong. its not as sugary as suggested. There is alot of "bureaucracy".
I’m happy to live in Denmark, and I know that money can’t buy you happiness but in this case it does
Thank you Senator, you truly give ppl in America hope
Thanks for Truth!!!
Boyd Gilbreath it is NOT the truth.... about Denmark.... Dan Jørgensen is lying. It is on paper, but it dosens work that way in reality. Trust me, om Living here AS homeless. They made me homeless. Please pray for the truth to come out... ♥️🙏❤️🇩🇰
Boyd Gilbreath its a Lie. They are both corrupt
jeanette strauss shut the fuck up bitch
@@jeanettestrauss1311 They did not make you homeless. And anecdotal evidence is not evidence. If you genuinely are homeless then I am sorry for you. But the notion that because you are homeless in Denmark suddenly ALL of Denmark is a "lie" or "bad" is complete bs. People are homeless EVERYWHERE. Would you rather be homeless in the streets of Brooklyn New York or Denmark? I think you know the answer. No Country is perfect but STATISTICALLY speaking Denmark is doing much better than most.
You are highly admired, Bernie Sanders.
Andrew F. You are highly stupid. WAKE UP
I wish i could be the citizen of Denmark. What a lovely people.
Sensible approach. ✔ And Bernie 2024!
One of the biggest achievements of a social society is the stress free living. Never underestimate the feeling of freedom in that.
I hate life and I live in a social democratic country.
@@darkwolf4434 Well at that point I think I think that's a you problem. You can suffer anywhere in the world, but you can also be happy anywhere. It depends more on the person than it does on your environment when it comes to western first world countries.
@@Molly-ss4fw The social democratic things hasn't helped me with anything.
Finding a job was similar as in a capitalist society for me when I was young and had to get 3 different jobs my first year after I had finished my education.
@@Molly-ss4fw
"Denmark is... Not socialist... It is a Free Market Economy..." - Prime Minister of Denmark
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@@theboringprogrammer4444 Socialism and social democracy are not the same thing. Denmark may not be socialist, but it is a social democracy.
As a Dane, i can 100% back up the claim that Bernie Sanders is admired.
The people of America needs more politicians like him!
They need more beers and more anti depressant and more suicides like in Denmark . Lorte Land!
yes we do, unfortunately there are many fools here who don't want him
Americans thinking paying extra for taxes is super horrifying until you slip and get a concussion costing you 60,000 dollars.
Nowadays, it’s not only 🇩🇰 Denmark..., but most of the western countries have about the same Social Welfare system, except USA 🇺🇸. 🤨
They’re smaller and rely on the us for military and foreign aid though
Best of luck, Bernie! And be aware, your policies are, from EU perspective much more centrist than socialist😁
Phaedrus Socrates WAKE UP and do your reesurch. He is an corrupt evil person.
Mostly true, but that's what it takes to move the U.S. overton window from the extremely right.
I live in Denmark, and working full time and i gladly pay my taxes….However we have of late had some serious criminal activity in Danske Bank "Denmarks biggest bank", a financial institution that was actually saved by tax payers money back in 2008 when the financial crisis roamed!. They are now involved in the biggest financial crime in Europe ever, perhaps even in the world and we are still not at the end of it. Despite these financial institutions who i would love to see go bankrupt, Denmark is a great place to live indeed! . Thank you Senator Bernie Sanders.
Noah Vale - Not at all, i know bank's in USA are involved in serious crimes that are investigated at this moment. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase, are all 3 huge financial institutions now being investigated in related financial crimes (and not for the 1st time) and in Germany Deutsche Bank have been raided by the fraud squad (police) just recently for yet again being involved in financial crimes of epic proportions !. The biggest criminals in the world are in fact the financial institutions, and it is entities like this that criminals and traitors like Trump and Putin loves ! these are the once that Trump call great and tremendous good people and businesses!
@@thomasl486 The system started to collapse when the financial industry wasn't making money from growing the real economy but instead was pumping money around only in the financial industry.
@@thomasl486 Like Trump and Putin loves? Where do you think Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and almost the entire Democratic Party and the Republican Party get their money from? And like the Danish politicians doesn't take money from big banks. Socialdemocrats are corrupt centrists who believe in neoliberalism. But good video for the american audience.
Regarding Danske Bank, what has that to do with "Bernie Asks Danish Politician: Why Is Denmark So Happy?"?
Don't you think your statement, (that is correct) should be in an other video.
@@c3dk Nothing to do with it. Some Scandinavian citizen are not happy enough with the current system, which is on the top shelf in the world already, but want even stronger socialism, more like good old Cuba communism where the state controls absolutely everything. But these people are relative few.
Everybody knows that Nordic countries are the best and that they're really way ahead when it comes to education, ecology, health care, economy, and just as models of societies in general not based on profit at all cost but around the well being of their citizens. In Europe we don't look up anymore to USA ( a self centered violent country which economic model is based on social and racial inequalities, only driven by money and power) but to Nordic countries.
Denmark also has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the western world, something I admire them highly for, because it gives businesses a wonderful competitive advantage in their country and they don't have to deal with the paperwork or cost of healthcare, workers comp, etc.
Lol who the fuck cares. Their individual tax rates are like 4x that of the United States. If I went over there tomorrow with my consulting practice, my overall tax rate would multiply by literally four times because they would be looking at my personal income.
@@LukePighetti Any business with real money isn't going to set up in Denmark when you have places like Nevis and Panama.
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Thorough questions! Senator Sanders. Appreciate your time! Dan Jørgensen. And good to hear that he is admired in Denmark!
Bernie would have become president in anywhere else in the world.
Except in Italy, people here are dumb and they hate left-wing parties. They would vote Trump instead of a normal and good politician.
Hm idk about here in Aus whoever appears to be the most centrist generally wins or whoever has a better policies (the left one party here only lost cause they had a few policies the public didn’t like)
@@quelmod499 I think the reason behind this is peoples age. Old people generally tend to reject policies that are progressive or change the govt structures drastically. As most of the old people are kinda established they think the current situation is going well as long as I have a roof over my head and can have a full meal 3 times a day. And it's kinda true for everywhere in the whole world. The average population age in Italy being 45.4 I think that's the reason. Another problem many people have is they think loving your country = loving the govt. I love my country but hate my govt.
@@lewiedewymountaindewy bernie i guess had better policies. A bit drastic i guess. But those would have helped the countries citizen in the long run. I mean what bernie proposed is basically what the Germans are doing right now. They not only providing free education for themselves also for foregin students as well. Even the health coverages are way cheaper.
Even though Scott Morrison isn't as good as your neighbor NZ's PM but you guys are lucky that atlest he isn't a trump 😅. And being centrist is far better than being rightwing. I know he was having a holiday while austraila was suffering from the worst wildfire. But i guess later he realized his wrong doing. I might be wrong though. As long as you dont elect people like paulina i bet australia will win many cricket world cups (by which i mean things will go normally). The closest thing to bernie you guys can get i guess is Steve Smith 😂 just from an outsider point of view.
Andrea Distaso And it’s good they do and I hope the rest of Europe is like that as well. We don’t need any more socialism and I’m glad America is smart enough to go down that corrupt path.
Really a useful video lots of love from tamilnadu state
It seems....appropriate....that this is showing up in recommendations again.
You are also admired across Europe, Bernie! Run for president in 2020! The world needs you!
Carlos Morgado idiot !
Ramping up for 2020 ;)
Do you think Bernie will run?
And a damn good thing too. Need to keep the DNC in check so it doesn't fix the primaries again.
Let's hope so. Trump will waste this nitwit.
David Filskov he’s an idiot besides legalizing of marijuana. We need more then a two party system
open up the soygates
Can we have Bernie as our prime minister? Sincerely, the Netherlands
The Netherlands is already one of the top 10 countries to live in. You are already doing better than most others.
@@niklasmolen4753 We only want him for his gloves. It matches perfectly with our wooden clogs.
@@NathanMandjes No please, without him us in Yankee land are screwed
@@4GNG he lost nomination twice! What good is he if he can’t even get nominated? 😂
@@simplesimon8255 he was actually 2nd in the polls in 2020, but then most of the democratic nominees quit and endorsed Biden, causing him to lose
One thing:
This isn't Socialism. This is Social Democracy. Massive step-up from Liberal Democracy, Neoliberal Democracy, and Representative Democracy, but still not Socialism.
Socialism is Worker's Ownership of the Means of Production, not Social Welfare and State-Owned Vital Services.
I would also like to point out that the USSR wasn't Socialist either, they were State Capitalist with Socialist intent.
Bernie Sanders is not a Socialist (well, I think he probably is, but he doesn't campaign for Socialism), he's a Social Democrat.
Denmark is not Left Wing. Denmark is Left-Leaning Centrist. America is Neoliberal, which is an Authoritarian Right-Wing ideology. Bernie Sanders, like Denmark, is a Left-Leaning Centrist. Not Left Wing. Although I suspect that's just how he presents himself to even stand a chance in his Far-Right country.
perfectly said
This would make a great ad.
Or propaganda.
Not only is Bernie highly regarded in Denmark but he is also highly regarded in Germany as well. I know because I have lived in Germany for over 40 years. Every time people here hear my accent (when I am speaking German) they ask where I am from and when I say from the US but I came here to escape Trump they shake my hand, or pat me on the back etc. Hiking in the Alps this summer they even opened their rucksack and took out a bottle of wine and offered me a glass!
Trump is just a race-baiting version of Sanders.
@@YorickReturns How?
You've been escaping Trump for over 40 years? Wow.
Larry Poorman First of you are not hanging with the right people Germany has a really small degree of socialism. And look at your socialist neighbour France which is dying because of open borders and socialism. When you tax the rich a lot, the rich escape to avoid high taxes so you lose money to fund socialist program.
Random.exe Obama is a puppet he didn t do shit he tried to implimant obamacare just to help big pharma to cell there suicidal pills. Trump is bringing back jobs from Mexico and China so more opportunity to work for everyone !
Rich people don't want the poor to be healthy or be educated. How else can they remain in power.
I've worked in Copenhagen for 7 months. Got some infection, so had to go to emergency room twice. I got a spot within an hour, without a local doctor or local registration, or a tax payer number. I suggested them using my corporate insurance, or European Insurance Card (private insurance). Doctor said healthcare in DK is free and let me go twice without changing a single DKK. Now that was cool.
Thats Denmark for ya
When Bernie Sanders is president then things will change.
This is the problem...people expect a President to save us from ourselves.
NO! We expect a president to be honest and do the right thing for the people. The government is supposed to work for all of us, not just certain groups of rich and well connected. Maybe we do need saving from ourselves. We allowed total greed and corruption to take over.
Exactly, but that's what corporate Dems & Greedy Old Pricks are afraid of. They won't be getting paid by corporations any longer!
Congress would block him. If you want actual change, you need to elect a president like Bernie Sanders as well as a senate and a house of representatives that support those ideas.
Which isn't easy when 40 to 60% of your population is convinced that socialism is the work of the devil.
@@lepetitroquet9410 Exactly. We need to get more people like AoC elected. Or else it'll be worse than what the republicans did to Obama. Cause Obama was still a corporate and corrupt sell-out who took donations from wall street and had goldman sachs bankers in his cabinet etc. So Obama wasnt far away from republicans. And now imagine the fight and resistance that Bernie would face as president... our only hope is to elect as many people as AoC as possible. And to vote out and imprison the DNC staff
Denmark is over 86% homogeneous in its population demographic.
United States isn't.
There's unity and cohesion there.
Denmark is smaller than Michigan.
If I was an American (meaning born and raised in the U.S/living there) I would move to Denmark in a heartbeat
Yes. IF.
One day Americans will have justice. Get organized my friends. Stay strong and don’t give up.
An Irish guy from Sweden. On my second degree at the moment. Only pay for literature but that cost has been absorbed by the strong union here. I have access of up to 10 year allowance/grants while I study (enough for at least three degrees). My allowance amount takes into account if I have kids and increases accordingly. Student rebates are at times up to 50% on major activities like gyms and such. We pay between 30 - 32% tax but we don't have to put much effort into balancing out our taxes at the end of the year (takes about 2 minutes on the new app they released) so it's smoothly administrated, I hope for Americans to experience this in your future but I suspect that you need to aim for reducing military spending by up to half (a huge discussion with many moving parts) . Savings can be made as you are no longer the hegemonic power (except militarily) which the past 80 years of international intervention aimed at achieving.
The campaign funding and other similar corruption is their biggest problem if you ask me. When the politicians listen to the people what they want, then they can change the country.
autohmae the main issue is on how to achieve the policy changes. In my view, the political landscape has shifted to the right the past forty years putting Rep's on the extreme end of the spectrum, Dems firmly on the right and progressives being the new left (however centrist from a European perspective). Party lines should be drawn for the people's sake. It's then you push through full-packaged progressive views. Trust me, if all Americans get a taste of a "take it for granted" health care system in its full honest form, they'll fight tooth and nail to keep it. Compromise at your own peril. Don't give the Dems or Reps the ability to make it less than is needed because it's (ironically) what they'll complain about when they are attacking such a policy.
@@damien884 a good number of dems got elected with no corporate campaign funding and things like this happened: www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/30/18118158/house-democrats-anti-corruption-bill-hr-1-pelosi Now, if they get stuff done, we'll have to see. But it's a good sign.
What a liar you are, i am swedish myself and you know we dont pay just 30-32% tax... the income tax can be 30-50% and on top of this you have a 31.5% payroll tax, and also a 25% VAT tax you pay on everything. And the gas tax is unbearable which makes living in rural areas really expensive. The taxes in Sweden is insane.
TurdEater85 your figures suggest you're a business owner who doesn't appreciate that he's apart of a wider society. This conversation is not aimed at you. It's for middle to working class. An average salary in Sweden get you a good standard of living. If you have kids or want to reeducate, you are well looked after and that long term investment is worth it. You should try America and tell me what happens if you don't make it and then come back to us and compare and complain. And dude, the name. Rethink your name.
Kom igen Danmark, fandme stolt!
Danmark for evigt i mit hjerte! ❤🇩🇰
This is why I’m glad I’m from and living in Denmark!! 🇩🇰🇩🇰
Greetings to a fellow citizen of the Nordic countries from Finland! 🇫🇮 🤝🏻 🇩🇰
I have visited your country and it is absolutely beautiful!
I'm glad I'm from America. Our country is far from perfect but there's no other place in the world where I'd rather live. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@simplesimon8255 Australia is better but even the sun has its spots.
It is expressing that Denmark is the happiest country of the world because the people of Denmark are holistic in nature love and simple it is great and lovely for all