OK... so you trust your banks and government and legal system, in a vastly socialist state. My condolences.
Socialist?
Sweden has always been a capitalist democratic country with due process and all that.
I will allow you to be a step above Norway, maybe above Denmark. Not difficult, as some of the most socialist western countries.
Is your schooling, healthcare, wellfare, transport government controlled? Do you pay taxes (all right, I know you pay among the highest in the world) Welcome to socialism, my friend.
Actually no, they are all controlled by local councils or run privately.
I think you Americans use the word socialist differently then we do.
We use it in it's original meaning (No democracy, everything owned by the state, private ownership not allowed, dictatorship, and so on).
While you seem to glue that word on any high tax democracy with a welfare system..
Isn't that comunism?
Yup, that's communism. Communism is a system of government. One party controlling the whole country.
Socialism is about economic policy. Think of it as the opposite of capitalism. Socialism want's equal distribution of wealth among all, capitalism welcomes free enterprise and competition.
Traditionally in the 20th century all communist countries were also socialist. But just look at China. It's a perfect example of a communist capitalist country.
Nope, that's wrong, but I'm too tired to argue, let's continue on Sunday.
I welcome the opportunity to be schooled on a system of government and economic policies I was born into by someone who wasn't. Should make for a lively debate
It's you who are trying to school me on the system I was born into. You are the ones calling a capitalist democracy a socialist country.
But now I really have to go to bed.