David French

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1,367 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 28 Aug

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The SkyePod · French Friday: The Solution to Partisan Christianity · 28 Aug 2026 podcast

Yes. voice-verified

Oh, for sure. voice-verified

I don't think there's... Yeah. voice-verified

I don't think there's any question about that. voice-verified

Several things. voice-verified

So number one, a lot of people are saying they like socialism, are not thinking of socialism. voice-verified

OK, they're thinking of Norway. voice-verified

OK, they're thinking of Sweden. voice-verified

They're thinking of Denmark. voice-verified

They're thinking of democratic socialist parties, for example, or democratic socialism as manifested in sort of the European center left, which basically means a market economy that is heavily regulated with a generous social safety net. voice-verified

Because you go to Norway, you go to Sweden, you go to Denmark, you go to all the Scandinavian countries, there's private property, there's public corporations, it's a capitalist economy. voice-verified

By some measure, some of these even Scandinavian countries might be more economically free than the US, but they have a very different voice-verified

overall social compact. voice-verified

They spend a lot less on defense as a percentage of GDP than we do, and in absolute numbers, of course. voice-verified

But that's changing with the Russia-Ukraine invasion. voice-verified

I mean, I think Denmark now outspends us as a percentage of GDP on defense and maybe some of the other Nordic countries. voice-verified

But they have allocated less to sort of building this very formidable military. voice-verified

They've allocated more to a very generous social voice-verified

welfare structure. voice-verified

And they also have a different outlook and attitude towards work and productivity to the point where they're going to culturally value more time off. voice-verified

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