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Not trying to troll, but what are examples of progressive or soft-socialist governance working well, anywhere in the world at any time in history? Small europe

• rebuilder 5y ago
  Finland?
• cloudfifty 5y ago
  What? "soft-socialist" by American standards would include pretty much all of western-Europe.
• throwaway0a5e 5y ago
  > Not trying to troll, but what are examples of progressive or soft-socialist governance working well, anywhere in the world at any time in history? I think if you want to find historical examples of success you're going to need to have a highly inclusive definition of "soft socialist" or consider cases where people are fed and clothed but living miserably under the thumb of the government as "working well" Historically blue cities in the US have been run by authoritarians with varying visions of what they want the place to look like who are supported by a bunch of boot lickers who believe in the vision. Examples abound on the US east coast. Recently it's become less fashionable to rule with an iron fist. This has lead to some serious problems where "crime with a victim" and "this behavior makes things seriously miserable for everyone around" laws and go unenforced but I think that some cities will see the West coast examples decide they do not want and then go strike a good balance between the extremes.