Long Live Sweden!

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof makes a good point. Americans seem by intuition to be flaming lefties, he writes. A study published last year by scholars from Harvard Business School and Duke University asked Americans which country they would rather live in — one with America’s wealth distribution or one with Sweden’s. 'But they weren’t labeled Sweden and America,' Kristof said. 'It turned out that more than 90 percent of Americans preferred to live in a country with the Swedish distribution.' Perhaps nothing gets done because, in polls, Americans hugely underestimate the level of inequality here, Kristof said. 'Not only do we aspire to live in Sweden,' he added, 'but we think we already do.' Makes me want to shout: Long Live Sweden! --Jim Broede