“Today, reading about such incidents is considered part of daily life. The rising levels of violence have not gone unnoticed by Sweden’s Scandinavian neighbors...”
I used to wonder why a stable, prosperous and peaceful society would import large numbers of violent, unemployable, hostile and unassimilable people into their country. To me it made no sense for a country to do this and much LESS sense for this to be happening in many such countries. After much thought the best explanation I could come up with is that the left is obsessed with instituting communist revolutions in Western countries but that is not going to happen in peaceful and prosperous societies. The current system must be made to fail so that it can be replaced. I know it sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory but it fits with the left’s attacks on all aspects of Western culture. It also fits with their promoting demographic shifts in the populations of Western countries with people who have no background or tradition of personal liberty or western culture. Such people will be less likely to resist the replacement of those liberties with totalitarianism.
None of this is really new. Barry Goldwater and George Wallace complained about biased media 50 years ago. George Soros is the current villain, but the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations were big funders of the New Left in the 1960s. Gary Allen, a student of these matters back in that time, called it "pressure from above, pressure from below".