Have you been to Sweden or other Nordic countries, which Sanders openly claims as his models for many of his <i>social-democratic</i> (not socialist) ideas? They are free countries and at the top of most measures of human welfare. Most of Western Europe embraces more social democratic concepts than the U.S., and their standards of living are at least as high as America&#x27;s.<p>The USSR said it was implementing communism (not socialism), but really implemented a brutal totalitarian dicatorship.