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The Nordic model requires strong borders and high cultural cohesion: "we're all in this together" doesn't function without either "we" or "together". Neither o
by donw 5y ago
The Nordic model requires strong borders and high cultural cohesion: "we're all in this together" doesn't function without either "we" or "together".
Neither of those is remotely true in the US of 2021.
- beaconstudios 5y agotrue - a good portion of your population is, for all intents and purposes, insane at the moment. I think you'd have to end the two-party system before anything better could happen because that's a HUGE driver of the conflict.
- donw 5y ago> I think you'd have to end the two-party system before anything better could happen because that's a HUGE driver of the conflict. No. The US has had first-past-the-post elections since its inception. The present division is a complex phenomenon starting from the early 2000s. It's probably hard for anybody under thirty to imagine this, but the difference between "Democrats" and "Republicans" as voting blocs was very small, to the point where politics was just a sort of boring background activity before 9/11.
- beaconstudios 5y agoThe present division would be less possible without a two party system leading to colour politics. To be a Democrat or Republican should not mean as much culturally as they do. It's only through that sharp divide that such conflicts happen so readily.
- KarlKemp 5y agoSweden (17 %) and Germany have higher percentages of immigrants than the US ( 14 %). Norway is also at 14 % and Denmark is at 10 %. What's tearing the US apart isn't "weak borders" but 1/3 of the population sharply turning agains democracy. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/international-migrant-stock https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/international-migrant-sto...
- donw 5y agoThose are all very recent changes. Let’s see how they’re getting on in 20 years.