{"id":21734,"date":"2015-09-20T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T15:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21734"},"modified":"2015-09-20T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T15:58:14","slug":"what-bernie-sanders-means-by-democratic-socialism-you-still-have-your-choice-of-pajamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/09\/20\/what-bernie-sanders-means-by-democratic-socialism-you-still-have-your-choice-of-pajamas\/","title":{"rendered":"What Bernie Sanders means by \u2018democratic socialism.\u2019 (You still have your choice of pajamas.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/09\/19\/what-bernie-sanders-means-by-democratic-socialism-you-have-your-choice-of-pajamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Washington Post article\">What Bernie Sanders means by \u2018democratic socialism.\u2019 (You still have your choice of pajamas.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll use this excerpt of what he said about Scandinavian Social Democracies to give you a hint at his great explanation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cAre these democratic societies? Obviously they are,\u201d Sanders said, relaying that voter turnout in Denmark tends to approach 90 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it a society where the government owns every mom-and-pop store?\u201d he asked. \u201cOf course not. You have all kinds of capitalist entrepreneurship going on, a lot of wealth being created. But what else do you have? \u2026 An effort to make sure that all people benefit from the wealth that\u2019s being created. So you have a much more equitable distribution of wealth and income. \u2026 I talked to a guy from Denmark, and he said, \u2018In Denmark, it is very hard to become very, very rich, but it\u2019s pretty hard to be very, very poor.\u2019 And that makes a lot of sense to me.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of his explanation so that you can better understand what he wants, and you can better explain it to other people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has the article What Bernie Sanders means by \u2018democratic socialism.\u2019 (You still have your choice of pajamas.) I&#8217;ll use this excerpt of what he said about Scandinavian Social Democracies to give you a hint at his great explanation. \u201cAre these democratic societies? Obviously they are,\u201d Sanders said, relaying that voter turnout in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21736,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734\/revisions\/21736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}