Re: [OT] Bill Maher nails it again

On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 02:45:37 +0000
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On Apr 13, 2024 at 6:41:02 PM PDT, "Rhino"
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Bill Maher has a fun monologue on wokeness in this clip which
focuses on how places like Canada and Scandinavia should no longer
be regarded as models to emulate in the US:
 
https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1778989085362987082 [8
minutes] 

 
I don't know why they ever were.
 

I think a part of it, at least in the 60s and 70s, was that Canada and
Sweden provided a safe haven for draft-dodgers from the Vietnam War and
therefore earned brownie points with the campus radicals. In later
years, people like Michael Moore lionized Canada by writing propaganda
about our health care system that omitted the very serious flaws, just
as the Bernie Bros. kept insisting that they wanted to turn America
into Sweden, not the former Soviet Union, without really knowing
anything about Sweden. (They knew Americans had a positive image of
Sweden, even if they knew almost nothing about it which helped them
sell their brand of (allegedly) "democratic socialism".)

The average older American is suspicious of "socialism", knowing that it
is a somewhat milder form of communism, which they despise and
distrust. They could only hope to sell "socialism" by saying it was the
same thing practiced in countries that America has a good impression
of, like Canada and Sweden.

--
Rhino