Socialism is the government control of the means of production — factories, hospitals, industries. Building roads, funding fire departments, and paying for Social Security are government spending and legislation, not socialism. The left deliberately blurs this distinction to make government takeover of the economy sound normal and Scandinavian.
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This segment is Bongino's most didactic — a sustained argument about what socialism actually is versus how it is deliberately misrepresented. He defines socialism precisely: government control of the means of production, not government spending or publicly funded services. Fire departments, garbage collection, and Social Security are not socialism because the government does not own the trash industry, the fire equipment industry, or the retirement investment market. He plays a Joy Behar clip from The View in which she claims these public services constitute democratic socialism, and he is exasperated. He then addresses the Scandinavian comparison that progressive politicians repeatedly invoke, citing a Wall Street Journal piece by Tom Fairless showing Sweden is undergoing what the article calls 'the world's most surprising capitalist makeover' — moving away from, not toward, expansive welfare-state politics. [1] — Dan Bongino "Sweden moving away from big-government welfare: Bongino cited a Wall Street Journal article by Tom Fairless describing 'the world's most su…" 43:50
Bongino cited a Wall Street Journal article by Tom Fairless describing 'the world's most surprising capitalist makeover underway in Sweden,' noting Sweden is introducing free markets and moving away from its large welfare state model.
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