The much maligned Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might have been on to something, although possibly inadvertently, in her interview January 6, 2019 with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes.  During that interview, she said she wants to "model her socialist policies off of European countries."  She qualified her statement, saying, "What we have in mind and what my policies most closely re-resemble are what we see in the U.K., in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden." This past September, Sweden held its parliamentary elections, which determine the makeup of the legislative bodies on a scheduled four-year cycle.  At the highest level, these elections determine the allocation of seats in the Riksdag, the national legislative body of Sweden (also known as the Kingdom of Sweden), whose political form of governance is known as a parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy.  Powers of the monarch are largely ceremonial; the most...(Read Full Post)