Norwegian Illusions: A Warning for Pete Buttigieg’s Infatuation

Originally published in The American Spectator

The country’s ills reveal what happens to the human mind when exposed to social democratic policies for generations

Democratic socialist romantics often justify their views by lifting up the Norwegian system and disregarding socialist-run states like Venezuela, Russia, and Cuba, which have experienced corruption, poor management, poverty, and/or imperialism. Norway, in contrast, is fetishized and exemplified as the epitome of a strong social state in the absence of tyranny and starvation.

The recurring conservative counterargument to the Scandinavian-style social democracy is that the homogeneity of the population and wealth disqualifies it for comparison. 

A better counterargument, however, points to the deterioration we are observing in real time. Interestingly, precisely because of wealth and homogeneity, the experimental conditions are perfect to observe what happens to the human mind when exposed to social democratic policies for generations.

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