Learning From Europe
Europe is an economic success, and that success shows that social democracy works. As health care reform nears the finish line, there is much wailing and rending of garments among conservatives. And I’m not just talking about the tea partiers. Even calmer conservatives have been issuing dire warnings that Obamacare will turn America into a European-style social democracy. And everyone knows that Europe has lost all its economic dynamism. Actually, Europe’s economic success should be obvious even without statistics. For those Americans who have visited Paris: did it look poor and backward? What about Frankfurt or London? You should always bear in mind that when the question is which to believe — official economic statistics or your own lying eyes — the eyes have it. Not so fast, Krugman. Social democracy does work and much better than the US system too...But Europe is moving away from it now. The European elites are in the process of introducing a neo-fascist system of federated pauper states under the guise of being a "modern" and "dynamic" Europe. Needless to say, this new Europe in reality no longer honors the idea of social democracy, much less the general principles of democracy.