…Not Responding to USA Illegal Actions.
I have for a very long time wanted to find a way to live better in Denmark, Scandinavia, because it is the best country of the world, more Leftist/Socialist-Democratic. I knew they all use USA Internet companies way over anything else. I always knew it would be an adjustment culture wise, especially language, if I was ever able to do it. Still wanting to do it.
At the same time, I have been disappointed that EU does not do something to stop The USA, over last 2-decades.
It was probably best if you caught the interview, for yourself, the name of author is & book title is: Dave Keating & ‘The Owned Continent’
With that being said I was shocked by the ex-USAn living in EU comments, about his published book, that he was shocked about how EU countries’ culture is weakened (& corrupted when it comes to dealing with USA actions) by The USA entertainment-culture bleeding into their cultures. They watch The USA- TV & Movies, Cellphones, so much more, This was on Frances’ media channel France24 & their corespondent, that prides itself on it’s own culture-arts. This affects how they deal with USA that breaks International laws, let alone their own laws, with ‘Crazy Don’ happens like every day.
He says it began not with WW II USA dominance, but before then.
He says that with this still EU is given the opportunity to do something, but chooses not to.
Is this really happening? Especially, in more Left-Democratic Socialist Denmark & Scandinavia?
…is what really happening?
First of all, this is /c/Sweden and not /c/Denmark :) But yes, Swedes have been consuming large quantities of US news and media for a long time, our industry has grown incredibly dependent on USA, and our own media repeats US war propaganda as if it were objective news. Also our politicians - especially the capitalist/conservative parties who have been leading the country the last 20 years - suck up to Trump and happily repeats anything that comes out of his mouth without question.
I was talking about the whole EU.
That is not good, Sweden is politically Conservative, wow did see that coming. Is that The EU political Conservative or The USA political Conservative? From what you said about The ‘Crazy Don’, I suspect you are saying The USA political Conservative.
Started as the former and moving gradually towards the latter, but I don’t think the term “conservative” is equally meaningful outside of USA. The largest right wing party, The Moderates, are first and foremost economic liberal. While their political support parties have varied, I believe they are currently governing together with The Christ Democrats (formed by evangelicals and not related to the German CDU) and The Sweden Democrats (formed by members of neo-nazi and far right groups), so currently they’re ofc. making life harder for immigrats, etc. But they were equally happy to govern together with more socially liberal right wing parties. If one were to describe the politics in Sweden I would rather use the term neoliberal. While it also includes some conservatism now, it comes further down the list.
“but I don’t think the term “conservative” is equally meaningful outside of USA.”
No, I know about that, thanks to host/co-creator Thom ‘The Dem. “90+% Capitalist” Party Protector-Their Wrongs-Evils Scrubber From His Show-Greater USA Political Moderate World’ Hartmann of The Thom Hartmann Show.
It will take me more time to read all that,
The EU political Neoliberal or The USA political Neoliberal?
I know what The USA political Neoliberal means, but not as knowledgeable about The EU political Neoliberal. Sorry, but with Wikipedia allowing information to be changed & political Right changing tons of Wikipedia to BS, I never care what is there. Do you have better source(s)? Like most of ‘Free Speech’ programming, ‘The Freedom Side’ & ‘The Break Through News’?
Sorry, I’m not that much into politics :) I just linked the wikipedia article in case someone read the comment without having heard the term. Even among decently educated and intelligent people, I’ve noticed that there often is a tendency to guess what words mean based on what they look like. One of the most extreme examples of that was someone thinking that conservatives also were pro environmental conservatism, entirely based on the similarity of the words…
On the larger scale, we’ve had massive privatizations everywhere. Pharmacies were sold (very cheap), hospitals and elderly care facilities are now owned and run by international investment firms, and we have for-profit schools. But everything is still paid for with tax money, so instead of trying to provide as good services as possible, all the private interests try to pocket as much as the money instead. Proponents of this system often say that the government run healthcare was inefficient, but having “too many” doctors and nurses at least created jobs here in Sweden.
They’ve also made union memberships more expensive, resulting in many leaving them. So we have large international corporations violating Swedish laws that should protect the workers’ rights, and instead of upholding them government politicians side with the companies.
Instead they’ve instituted government handouts for home renovations and having servants. There’s also a generic “job tax deduction” which gives you back a portion of your income tax. The right wing parties claimed it was going to “make it more profitable to work”, i.e. implying compared to being unemployed, but ofc. it also hurt students and retirees just as much. All the stores gradually increased their prices afterwards, so it doesn’t feel like I have much more money at the end of the month, and some economists called it “a solution to a problem which doesn’t exist.”
But also the party named The Social Democrats started going towards neoliberalism in the late '90s, trying to appease corporations and starting to run public services as for-profit companies.
No need to apologize
When is some organization(s), as trustworthy as most of ‘Free Speech’ programming, ‘The Freedom Side’ & ‘The Break Through News’, going to matchup all these political identities terms, from at least EU-USA. Cannot wait,
