I live in Denmark. Bernie Sanders’s Nordic dream is worth fighting for, even if he loses
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Sanders is our kind of politician. Principled, decent, beholden to no corporation or vampire squid bank and intent, it genuinely appears, on upholding the basic principles of social justice and democracy.
He gets it. Best of all, he gets us. Up here in the frozen lands just to the right of the UK and atop Germany, we have been basking in the attention lavished upon us during this most improbable of election years, thanks to the Sanders campaign.
"I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people," he said in the first Democratic debate last October.
Since then he has repeatedly invoked Scandinavia as his model for a better America, citing the region's world-leading levels of economic and gender equality, the generous welfare safety provision, and the free health care and education systems, and pointing to the great quality of life and self-perceived happiness enjoyed by these descendants of the Vikings.
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11133896/bernie-sanders-denmark
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Michael Booth is the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia, out now in paperback from Picador.
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