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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: What's Wrong With America Looking More Like Scandinavia? [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)I was a 17 year old when I became an exchange student to the then West Germany.
I was amazed at the social reality of that European country that was so radically different than my own. I received health care when I needed it even as an exchange student. I did not see any adults worried about medical bills like I had started seeing with my own father when his heart problems developed in my early teen years.
I saw a country where education was free. I saw a country where vacation time and reasonable work hours were the norm and not the exception.
When I returned to the US and went to college, I was in culture shock.
We definitely are children when it comes to the European model of Democratic Socialism. Maybe, just maybe, that can change with Sanders being elected our next president.