> Norwegians self identify as socialist for example
Er.. that's not even remotely true
Er.. that's not even remotely true
If they call themselves "socialist" then I will too.
Granted though, that under a functioning democracy, there will be overlap: if the country is x then most likely at least a plurality of voters support x. It doesn't mean that "all citizens support x" or "any specific citizen supports x and self identifies themself an x-ist".
To be clear, the former is what I was repeatedly told. Nobody personally self-identified themselves as a socialist to me, they described their country as socialist.