Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Sweden Not a Socialist Success" video.

@ivercingetorix1367 : Yes. And the conformist, duty-to-the-community that northern climes foster in their people. But someone from outside the culture, who's been living on next-to-nothing is like "Are you kidding? Food, clothing and shelter for free? How many wives did you say I could have?"
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Austin Martín Hernández : Yes. Shared values and customs and problems. One law for all makes more sense. U.S. Federal Gov't passes blanket legislation on matters that affect EVERYone, regardless of geography and situation. That's why the feds need to keep their noses out of MOST things and leave those things to the several states. Separation of church and state only applies to the federal government, by the way. Virginia had a state religion at the time of the founding. Separation was partly about telling the feds that it was up to Virginia to decide such matters. I thought the Soviets taught us that centralized control of diverse peoples and geography just aren't practical.
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Sweden is very capitalistic, except where it's not.
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Yes. And by the same token, guys on "my side" shouldn't use it as an example of the actual level of the immigration problem in the USA. It's a problem, and people are getting hurt, because we don't control our border, but Sweden's 10 million is not that large, in proportion to the number of immigrants and refugees they've admitted. If I'm not mistaken, Sweden's pretty socialist about housing, which has resulted in a housing shortage for young people and families in many places. And they've taken in far more people than they can reasonably house, so there're more crowded - packed like sardines - households in Sweden, as I understand. But yeah. Sweden is very capitalistic when it comes to tariffs and taxes. And they use a voucher system that Sweden-philes in USA are generally against. Competition for education dollars is heresy in the USA liberal echo chamber.
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@thomasandersen5822 : It's an interesting fight. Entire generations have been indoctrinated by largely ineffective public schools. The thing to watch is the red-pill conversion rate by new generations, much like the '60s generation, that got out into the real world and say "Our teachers are full of shit," and rebelled against the regressive establishment. America has a brand-new regressive establishment, consisting largely of a generation of leaders who rebelled against the traditional order, which was good, and replaced it with drek, which is bad. Now they defend it the same way the McCarthyists of the '50s defended THEIR "world order." They were at the peak of their power right before The Fall in the '60s and '70s. The young people, NOW, see those '60s "revolutionaries" as failed prophets. They did their thing, and they're leaving THEIR children with a mountain of debt and an oppressive system of Cultural Marxism infecting education, media and government. The government can turn its Eye of Sauron on any individual it chooses, and RUIN them. It's always been this way, but the hippies, it turns out, are no different than those who came, before, once in power. The wheel just keeps turning. Some progress gets made, some lost. Everybody's pretty much tolerant of gays, women have achieved equal pay for equal work, and so forth. I don't think that ground will be lost, although it needs a f minor/major correction, as LGBTQ and feminism have taken on some toxic aspects that need checking. Intersectionalism needs be seen for the incoherent opinions making their way into academia as canon, and give way to SCIENCE and REASON and FACTS. That will happen. It's so EASY to spoof those guys, because all their stuff is made-up. Sokal, 20 years ago, and more recently, Bogossian and a pair of (pretty brilliant) postdocs. Names are on the tip of my tongue...
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@dergunter1237 : They live under the penumbra of NATO, I imagine, with lots of free security, backed by U.S. might, however things are structured formally. NATO or not, I don't think it'll much matter before long, because NATO is obsolete.
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@bldlightpainting : There are core truths and misconceptions in all ancient texts. They are as much a product of the opinions of the men - and the times - as they are Divine Inspiration. It is well-known how opinions became canon, but it is also generally accepted that there are universal truths as well. The Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution are rooted in the Enlightenment, which is informed by Christianity, but abstracts their best idea of universal truths in essentially secular documents. If your interpretation of Christianity says you must stone a homosexual, the SECULAR law steps in and says "That ain't MY Jesus."
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@Loundsify : There's no dividing a man from his spirituality/religion in politics. And that's OK. Until it's not.
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Austin Martín Hernández : I think the term "Creator" can be interpreted in many ways. But I think it's essentially saying that however you got here, the government is NOT the Creator and NOT the end-all, be-all. There are things - rights - that supersede the powers of any government, whoEVER "made" us. In the 18th Century, for 90% of the population, it meant something more specific, but it also can serve in a more secular age as something more general.
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I think the prevailing view of the Founding Fathers was Deist. Believed there was something greater than ourselves. Not really sure what it was, exactly. Pretty close to my own superstitions.
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@RD19902010 : I think government health care was in place before during and after fascism. It was one of fascism's selling points, if I read things right, which I usually don't.
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Wasn't it Bismarck who got that going, back when industrialization was undermining the aristocracy?
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@jackmcslay : Russia is not monoethnic.
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@jacobw446 : The level of ignorance/hypocrisy is monumental.
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