United States of Socialism by Dinesh D'Souza

Author:Dinesh D'Souza
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

WHITE ON WHITE

The aversion is actually a two-way street. I’m not aware of a single American socialist who wants what the Scandinavians have. Not even Bernie Sanders. The reasons for this are not merely temperamental. Rather, they go back to Madison’s discussions in The Federalist about how large extended republics cannot work on the same model as a small homogeneous society.

Small homogeneous societies such as ancient Athens or Crete essentially seek to eliminate factions, especially economic factions. To put this in socialist terms, their goal is a one-class society. Madison insisted that factions are inevitable in a large extended republic. They reflect competing values and interests, and they cannot be eliminated. So the founding architecture is designed to accommodate this brute fact, in Madison’s terms, to steer the course of factional politics toward the common welfare of society.

Deep down, the American left agrees with this. That’s why leading figures of the left never go to Scandinavia. It’s a striking fact. Earlier I mentioned how leftists have, from the early days of socialism, made regular pilgrimages to socialist countries to observe their wonders, to study their greatness, and to report back to Americans on how we should be heading in their direction. Yet how many such reports have we seen from the Nordic countries? Hardly any! Even Sanders, who has Scandinavian roots and seems to have visited every socialist landmark on the planet, has never been to Scandinavia.

If an American leftist visited, let’s say, Norway, he or she would find a country that is 90 percent white, with over 80 percent of its population being ethnic Norwegians of Germanic descent and another 10 percent being whites from other European regions. There are fewer than 100,000 blacks in the country. Around 3 percent of the population is Muslim. If diversity is the American left’s mantra for America, there’s not a whole lot of that in Norway, or in most of the Scandinavian countries. If Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders did an outdoor Christmas photo op with the Norwegian socialists, it would be an all-white image with very white people, many in white outfits, mostly with white hair, against a white background.

The white ethnic Norwegians form a dominant majority bloc. They set the tone for the whole country. And Norway is not alone in this. When journalist Robert Kaiser returned from a three-week trip to Finland, he reported that this tiny country, with just over 5 million residents, is “ethnically and religiously homogeneous.” The Finns, he said, look alike and think alike. “Groupthink seems to be fine with most Finns; conformity is the norm.” Politics is based on consensus, and the major political parties are no more than a few inches apart.19

In Scandinavian countries, more generally, people consider themselves to be of one group, one class. There are no “oppressors” and “oppressed.” There is no “white privilege.” There are no figures like Christopher Columbus to vilify; no Scandinavian has been known to burn his country’s flag. Since there are no taboos to uphold, political correctness takes on a whole different aspect in Scandinavia.

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