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Related: About this forumBernie's ideas are only fringe to a right leaning political climate
Universal Healthcare is the norm in so many countries around the world, including the UK, Germany, France...
Countries with Universal Healthcare:
- http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/heres-a-map-of-the-countries-that-provide-universal-health-care-americas-still-not-on-it/259153/
Paid Maternity Leave around the world:
On free college, not just the Scandinavian countries, but Germany and Brazil have free college to students. Other countries like France have very low cost college (about $200 a year.)
Minimum Wages around the world:
Break up the Big Banks? Theodore Roosevelt broke apart 44 monopolies.
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Bernie's ideas are only fringe to a right leaning political climate (Original Post)
AZ Progressive
Feb 2016
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. Incremental progress will give the US all these things, in 75 years or so.
ErisDiscordia
(443 posts)2. Or never
whichever comes first.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)3. K&R.....
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)4. Bump