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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: What's Wrong With America Looking More Like Scandinavia? [View all]colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Anyone not wealthy would benefit from what Bernie is saying. It's not like you cannot get rich, it's just a lot harder to get obscenely rich. Plus - the free or almost free health care would not create the costs we see here, just due to the decidedly lower amount of stress on the middle class - due to not worrying incessantly about how to pay for college and medical costs.
Thom Hartmann spent a couple of weeks in I think Denmark a couple of years ago and found that very few conservatives had a problem with any of this, their main thing is making immigration harder so as to limit who gets in on this sweet setup.
We could have all this if more middle class people started to put 2 and 2 together. Pot and marriage equality seem like done deals, so once we get past that why on earth would they not see how good this system would be for them personally? I mean why are CEOs of huge health insurance companies making 5-10 million dollars a year? It's insane, we are it I think in allowing for profit health care.
Bernie is right there with FDR who is on film and sound bytes saying how he welcomed the hatred of the plutocrats.