Hey Dave! I'm going to Copenhagen!
Bye!
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Denmark, like Venezuela has stripped people of their
opportunities. Is that the direction we want to go in?
Well so long as we know what democratic socialism is.
And if we know that in countries in Scandinavia
Like Denmark, Norway, Sweden they are very democratic countries obviously their voter turnout
is a lot higher than it is in the United States. In those countries health care is
a right of all people. In those countries college education graduate school is
free. In those countries retirement benefits childcare are stronger than in
the United States of America and in those countries buy and large
government works for ordinary people in the middle class rather than as is the
case right now in our country for the billionaires.
But if you look at
countries like like Denmark for example there's still enormous private ownership
of business this is true in most of the most of the Nordic and Scandinavian
countries anyway.
We want improved and expanded medicare for all.
We want tuition free public colleges and trade schools. We want a green new deal to
address climate change...
[Incoherent jibberish]
And I think we should look to countries like Denmark
like Sweden and Norway and learn from what they have accomplished for their
working people.
[Incoherent jibberish]
My problem with socialism is is that it is
essentially somebody subjectively deciding the value of your own labour.
[Narrator] The Kingdom of Denmark is located southwest of Sweden and south of Norway.
It emerged in the 10th century as a seafaring nation struggling for control
of the Baltic Sea. Initially Sweden Norway and Denmark were all controlled
by a single sovereign ruler but eventually with Swedish secession
(my that's a mouthful) and Norway separating in 1814 it became the kingdom we all
know and love today. Thanks in large part by being ruled by a dark queen!
Actually the center-left socialist Democratic Party led a string of coalition governments in
the second half of the 20th century which introduced the Nordic welfare
model. Despite these decisions that would certainly enrage the Charlie Kirk's of today...
I live as a capitalist!
Denmark is considered one of the most economically and socially developed
countries in the world. It frequently ranks in the top five
country rankings for national performance, education, health care, and
protection of civil liberties.
I'm here in front of Grundtvig.
And I'm probably butchering that word terribly. It's a church in Copenhagen but I'm here
in Copenhagen home of Hans Christian Andersen and Bjarke Ingles to see whether
social democracy is alive and well in here. Or whether it's a democracy or
socialist or maybe some hybrid of the two. I want to find out if this is the
home of Bernie Sanders. Whether or not go Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders will
lay down their lives to die here and if the world of social democracy is
alive and well in this beautiful and stunning country. Join me and my frozen
nipples as we explore Copenhagen!
[Intro music plays]
[Folk song music]
[Narrator] My journey into the heart of social democracy first began with failed
attempts and trying to define it myself.
It's only thanks to the marvels of socialism
that we have things like the restaurant Porn-Sak.
We're about to ride the Metro. It's literally powered by socialism.
Socialism is art.
Well the streets are definitely paved. With socialism!
Extreme wealth, decadence, excess... not made possible though anything other than socialism!
[Yelling] What does it all mean!
It wasn't long before I realized that I would need to actually speak to a
Dane in order to truly understand how social democracy works in the country.
So I met up with an old friend Frederick Olufsen.
I'm Frederik Olufsen. I'm a co-owner of Copenhagen based record label ride Riotville Records which I operate
with Snavs and the man behind it all ,also known as the legend Sun
Minspa. I also work at a Copenhagen based advertising
agency as a motion graphics designer. And I have a sketchy background as a touring
DJ under "The Frederick".
Everybody should have the freedom to excell as much
as much as they can but they have to take care of each other and um that is also I
think in some ways you've born responsibilities as a Dane. If you want
to understand like how it works in Denmark is that even though Bernie
Sanders for North America would be considered like udder udder leftist by
probably the majority he would be considered a right-wing for the
right-wing parties in the parliament here. Which goes down to that we all more
or less basically agrees that we have to pay though roughly at least half of our
income salary in taxes then it's once again on margins and then you you have
like these levels if you earn more than your percentage uh it keeps keeps rising
accordingly so it's more like how much should it rise not whether it should
rise. In comparison to to um to socialism no it's still also super liberal
on some policies for for companies and stuff you can can deduct and it most of
the parties agree that a free market is a driver also for a socialist state or
else you're gonna be somewhere and status quo and never move on. But I don't
think that that a Dane would consider himself a socialist if you if you
asked a Dane are you a socialist he would or he or she would probably think that
you would be asking them "are you flagging red banners and throwing and
stuff inside the windows of the Parliament even though you would
consider so socialist. Like I think social democracy Democrats
and socialists are two very different things for us.
[Lance] So you would define yourself as a capitalist?
No I would...yeah maybe in Danish perspective but but not even real capitalist because I would
just acknowledge that capitalism is a thing. If you go the academic way of
course then you have gymnasium which is from 16 years to 20 or 19 that's three
years and then you start your if once again if you go the academic way you
will have three years of a bachelor and then two years as a masters degree. Or
three years if you are either spending longer time on it or you're starting to
become a doctor. And all of this is free of course unless you are attending a
private school which is both partially public and partially private you still
have to to follow some of the the public standards but you have to pay to go
there if school for instance has a particular focus on arts or crafts or
something but when you turn 18 you get paid to go to school yeah.
[Lance] How much do you get paid?
You get paid umm...and it's been a while since I got this kind of allowance but at that
time it was I think five thousand two hundred each month Danish Kroners so you
can compare that to whatever currency your viewers have.
Umm
Only to go to school a month and some people might think that this is
utterly insane. Why would you be paid to go to school? So what I think and it's
also been up to debate some some some parties want to change that but the
entire idea is social mobility which is basically that you shouldn't have a rich
background that allows you to focus on school everybody should be able to excel
as much as they can. Everybody agrees on health care more or less. They have their
different views on some parties or things so should some part of welfare be
paid. And it's also weird because some parts of health care welfare already
paid by it by the user. Like you... I can get millions of Danish Kroners paid by
the state if I get cancer for my treatment but all dental work is not a
part of yeah
[Narrator in French] Just like in Canada.
[Lance]What about umm..the environment.
[Lance] And global warming? How do Danes do that?
What is that?
[Lance] Global warming?
Yeah what is that?
[Laughter]
[Lance] Well that answered my next six questions.
Yeah no no.
I don't know if you know that Denmark is on the
forefront still. And we have some of the biggest companies producing a wind craft
crafted power and yeah.
[Lance] I've noticed there's a lot of electric cars.
Yeah but not enough.
But [sarcastic] ok...
Taxes on cars are a thing you pay
like 200% taxes on a regular person car or something yeah and they're so and
it's even compared to Sweden and I knew I know because I used to do commercials
for different car companies that I could look at the pricing for the same car in
Sweden and then like and the Swedish krona is way lower than the Danish so it
would be less than half in Swedish krona. Then in Danish kroners in Sweden and
then the Swedish krona would be like 70% of the Danish krone so it's really
expensive. Okay the thing that I thought they should do it they really want to do
something about this shit. Don't say that people have to be and they can maybe
conduct some time they also did some [expletive] stupid thing a couple of years
ago where they removed the deductible tax that people could get from putting
up solar power on their own roof. Probably because they realized that
people weren't buying as much electricity from the state and then what
the [expletive] do you want to go green or do you want to make yeah yeah all right so
So Denmark isn't socialist in the way that we think of socialism in the Karl Marx
and Engles sort of sense. The means of production are not owned by the workers.
There are some very strong and powerful unions here and there are some worker
co-ops that should be models for the rest of the world. There's definitely a great
sense of camaraderie. Powerful orgasms had by many not just by a few
but the same time it's not exactly the socialist utopia that Bernie Sanders or
Ocasio-Cortez might be thinking of. But there is a lot to admire here.
[Narration] Frederick gave me a deeper appreciation for the Danes and it was time to explore.
As a city Copenhagen is remarkably flat making biking the preferable way to
travel. Bicycles outnumber cars five to one in the city and the bike lanes are
spacious.
[Jazz Music Plays]
The Nordic model was proving to be a powerful aphrodisiac.
I go to Denmark...
What is it like 99% white? I don't need any security the streets are incredibly
clean. Crime is virtually non-existent.
Nobody gets called a socialist!
[Narration] It wasn't all sunshine rainbows lollypops and
everything however. An article released by the National around the same time as
my trip painted a different picture.
"What's happening in this former bastion
of liberalism is the normalization of white hostility to immigration. Denmark
is building on Australian and Israeli tactics to form a new strategy to
disappear the refugee from society. Rejected asylum seekers are in legal
limbo. Some of them are stateless and deprived of what Hannah Arendt calls the
right to have rights. They are denied as citizens by their home countries and the
EU refuses to recognize them as refugees so they have no legal status anywhere. In
response to this opposition the Danish government has taken more aggressive
steps still. Adopting the Australian strategy of intercepting and offshoring
refugees on Nauru, it now intends to house failed asylum seekers on the
remote island of Lindholm. Denmark then is refining its psychological torture by
subjecting asylum seekers to isolation and exclusion."
[Narrator] However being a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist...
I knew it was necessary to hear the story from both
sides. So I met with Lena Rutkowski. A politics and society editor at the
Murmur. As an Australian living in Denmark she had some unique takes on the
problems inherent in the Danish social democracy model.
Part of the reason that
I moved to Scandinavia six years ago was because I was really fascinated with the
Nordic welfare model and the societies and the heavy investment in social
infrastructure and I wanted to see it up close and hopefully take lessons for
that back to my home country Australia which at the time in 2013 was swinging
massively back towards the right and starting to see all kinds of cuts in
social infrastructure. What I think is fantastic about Denmark is it does
invest heavily in the social infrastructure here. I the fact that it
offers universal health care the fact that it offers free education and
subsidizes its students to study translates to a society that is
incredibly safe, has incredibly high levels of social trust, routinely tops all kinds
of OACD outcomes on on health and high employment rates. It's a very
high-functioning society and people are also able to because there's a strong
emphasis on work-life balance here people are also able to chase identities
that are not just work. I think that in general like Denmark is a society
with many many layers of xenophobia attached to it which is something that
isn't often discussed in the anglosphere when the International gaze is applied
to Denmark because I think with all the focus on everything that these the the
Scandinavian and and welfare model does well people don't look into the
experience of all the people living in this society. I think rooted at the idea
of Danishness is this is this idea that to be Danish is to belong to a Scandinavian
ethnicity. And this country is really coming up with is really meeting
with challenges as it becomes as its borders become more open in in this era
of globalization and it's seeing migration from people from cultures that
are non-European. Everyday Danish people would not like to think of
themselves as xenophobic but I think what's missing here in the discourse in
Denmark is this idea that whiteness is something that needs to be unpacked and
that systemic racism exists and Denmark isn't an innocent bystander to that.
It isn't even an innocent bystander to the colonialist history that a lot of
European nations have because Denmark too was a part of the slave trade and too
colonized Greenland. That it still has a super problematic relationship.
Now the the government policy is shifting from one around focusing on integration
to one around hard line assimilation. There's debates in Denmark about whether
like pork should be enforced in school because pork is a big part of the Danish
diet and I suppose in some traditionalist sense the Danish identity.
And now it's they they want to introduce that as some kind of forced assimilation
measure because it it confronts I guess certain Danes and the government that
there are parts of their population that don't eat pork.
It has never really had to confront ideas like white privilege and what
different kinds of identities mean and then that's coupled with the fact that
in general there's there's a cultural concept here that's incredibly popular
around the world it's called hygge. And it's taken the world by storm it's
launched a thousand books in the english-speaking world about like
how to hygge. How to and it basically translates to cozy its lifted from this
Danish cultural philosophy about making the home and every setting you're in very
comfortable and very very cozy and lighting candles and hygge I mean what I
think a lot of those books miss is is how much hyggi is embedded in the
mentality here. In Denmark when you meet somebody on the on the street you
say that was hyggelit it to meet you. It was cozy to meet you. And what comes
with that idea of cozyness is also that you don't rock the boat
Everybody is alike and everybody makes everything comfortable and everyone
makes spaces comfortable.
[Sexy music plays] Welcome to Hygge lifestyle.
Yeah...
Yeah that's pretty hyggi.
Oh that's real hyggi.
Yeah that's ... that's hyggilit right there.
That's pretty hyggi too.
That's not so hyggi.
Yeah now that's hyggi. Hyggi.
And that's born of a communitarian philosophy that in one
sense I think is incredibly beautiful. This idea of of not thinking about
yourself as an individualist as our hyper capitalist countries would dictate.
And where you're only thinking for yourself and your own individual gain.
It is a beautiful thing to think about yourself as a cog in a wheel and part of
an ecosystem but what's problematic is that it is based on the presumption that
everybody has the same starting point. And everybody has the same advantages
and disadvantages and effectively the same identity and that doesn't account
for the reality of the world we live in where your gender and your race and your
sexuality can play a part in how you were
perceived and come attached with all kinds of disadvantages. When I first
moved to Denmark I was completely under the impression that I was moving to one
of the most gender progressive countries in the world. Denmark did have a feminist
sorry not feminist... I'm not sure if she's a feminist or not but it had a woman
Prime Minister. And what I encountered was that there was a lot of push back
against feminists in places that I wouldn't expect.
So obviously sexism runs rampant in sort of every country and where I'm from in
Australia that's completely true and a right-wing commentator in one country
will sound the same in another. But I think what was interesting was look if
you move in a certain sphere in Australia one that's made up of like an
educated middle class, people who are artistic and cultural work within
journalism and media, anything related to the arts... in those circles it is absolutely
acceptable to be a feminist if anything it's almost had to burn out to at least
not pay lip service to it. You know and you know it's another discussion how
actually feminist those spaces are but the language exists to have a
conversation about feminism in general. That same language
didn't really exist in Denmark. When I first moved here people started and I
would mention that I was a feminist people I would meet would say 'oh you hate men!'
Or they would say I'm not a feminist I'm a humanist because I believe in equality.
So immediately I learned that to be feminist here is something that was seen
as synonymous with being anti men. Something synonymous with being
anti equality even. Something that was rocking the boat and not hyggi.
[Narrator] Hyggi.
I think in a in a sense it stems a little bit from this idea in Denmark that
feminism was something we fought for in the 70s and we've achieved it and and
there's this idea here that people are living in a post feminist society. So if
you're trying to point out more invisible elements of sexism like the
way there's that women mansplained to or the implicit biases that might stop
women from getting hired or moving into roles or that make women feel hyper
sexualized or that make women targets for sexual harassment in a workplace...
you're immediately kind of dismissed and gaslighted as being crazy and trying to
be dramatic because the work of feminism has been won because we have
women in public life and we have women in work. We might, but actually Denmark
performs really really badly in women in top leadership roles partly because
it doesn't have quotas and what's also really problematic is that there is a
lot of internalized misogyny here so I think women have been almost conditioned
here to - because men holds so much sway and so much power in institutions in
public life they've been conditioned to appeal to men and say like "oh I don't
need a quota". I want to believe that I'm the right one for the job not thinking
about and there isn't that discourse here to talk about why there's all kinds
of reasons that would stop women progressing. I mean I do not think for a
second that the reason Denmark is lagging behind on women in senior
management roles has it all to do with a lack of women's confidence or even lack
of education because women are outnumbering men in education and yeah
we're not seeing that reflected back in jobs.
Women make up half of film graduates and they only make 13% of the feature films
made in Denmark. That these are all explained by gender but Denmark doesn't
have that framework. I think that inevitably as Denmark gets more
multicultural more diverse as it gets more and more voices creeping up in in
all kinds of aspects of this society... I basically think that it's a
responsibility of everybody in Denmark to elevate voices that we otherwise
don't hear.
The most important part of any narrator is to walk towards the
camera. It's how you establish authority and by doing so I've established that I
am an authority on the subject I'm talking about. Unfortunately I'm not.
[Narrator] So while the Nordic model offers some of the most comprehensive social safety nets of any
government it's still riddled with problems. Something we also didn't
mention is that because the system operates within the frameworks of
capitalism it's still adherent to its pitfalls. But all that being said there's
still a lot to love about the Danish model and the Danes themselves.
Have you heard about the Law of Jante? Okay so though roughly translated you shouldn't
think you're anybody. You shouldn't think you're better than anybody and you
shouldn't think that you amount to anything. [Laughs] Yeah yeah but but that is
actually beautiful but but it's still so deeply rooted in a lot of things that
even though you go more venture into the liberal or capitalistic well you still
kind of have this belonging that you are not in that sense raised above other
people. You're all human beings. And it's also provocative because of course it
drives you to do something more something more if someone tells you that you are
not amounting to do anything.
[Narrator] The cities ancient architecture fused with
progressive tax redistribution makes it a unique experience even if it's still
struggling with issues of xenophobia and entrenched sexism. I was feeling hyggi from
my trip and I can't wait to return. Hopefully next time I'll convince Dave
to come with me.
Hey Dave I'm going to Copenhagen!
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