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Is Sweden On The Verge Of Rejecting Socialism?
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| 08/17/2018
| Jazz Shaw
Posted on 08/17/2018 8:12:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
John covered an interesting story out of Sweden the other night which really struck me as a bit odd. It’s a tale of arson and vandalism, “hooligans” and riots. These are all things which I don’t generally associate with the country of Sweden for some reason, but it turns out that such acts of unrest are actually rather common there, particularly right before the beginning of the new school year. Yet these car fires (which numbered in the hundreds) hit multiple cities simultaneously, so it looked far too coordinated to write off as mere coincidence.
A bit more digging reveals that there’s definitely some serious unrest taking place in Sweden, but much of it hinges on politics. The areas where the arson and rioting were breaking out were mostly in lower-income urban areas, particularly the neighborhoods with a lot of recently arriving immigrants and refugees. Who was responsible and what the motives might be haven’t been established yet, but there are people in the country who are looking at the upcoming September 9th elections with an eye to curb this immigration tide and bring the more conservative Sweden Democrats (don’t be fooled by the name) into power after 100 years of control by the Social Democrats. (Bloomberg)
Viking rock music and whole pigs roasting on spits drew thousands of Swedes to a festival hosted by nationalists poised to deliver their countrys biggest political upheaval in a century.
The Sweden Democrats have been led since 2005 by a clean-cut and bespectacled man, Jimmie Akesson. Hes gentrified a party that traces its roots back to the countrys neo-Nazi, white supremacist fringe. Some polls now show the group may become the biggest in Swedens parliament after general elections on Sept. 9. Such an outcome would end 100 years of Social Democratic dominance.
In Akessons hometown of Solvesborg, large crowds cheered as he laid out the partys vision for drastic cuts in immigration. His agenda is part of a global wave of nationalist and anti-establishment sentiment that has followed the 2008 financial crisis, with the election of Donald Trump in the U.S. and Britains vote to leave the European Union standing out as the starkest examples of the new world order.
This is a late-blooming mirror image of shifts we’ve observed in other parts of Europe over the past few years. Those efforts met with varying degrees of success, but the message was the same. The Sweden Democrats have attracted many Swedes who mostly say that they generally don’t mind immigration, but the flood of people who don’t meld into society has led to long delays in social welfare services and increases in violent crime. (Any of this sounding familiar?)
At the festival put together by the party’s leaders, they were selling Swexit t-shirts. The quotes provided from interviews with newly minted party members all sound familiar as well. One man who had recently switched over to the Sweden Democrats said, Trains and hospitals dont work, but immigration continues. Im not a racist, but Im a nationalist. I dont like seeing the town square full of Niqab-clad ladies and people fighting with each other.
It’s not an exact parallel because this is a far more socialist nation to begin with, but we’ve heard similar stories from people in France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Denmark and more. Little changes but the language being spoken. If the Sweden Democrats sweep to a clean victory and clear majority, the European Union is going to have one more headache on their hands. And the most recent polls are showing considerable movement in that direction. If the EU doesn’t want another “exit” movement brewing, they will need to be prepared to deal in good faith with the new Swedish government or face the prospect of their joining the Axis of the Willing with several other upstart nations.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: immigration; islam; socialism; sweden; swedensocialism
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To: Snickering Hound
The little infadel child might want to request a cute little steel turtle neck for Christmas
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posted on
08/17/2018 9:01:27 AM PDT
by
gathersnomoss
(Regressive Swamp Dwellers)
To: allendale
I don’t think any culture deserves genocide, whatever misbehavior they may have been guilty of.
And that is what is exactly happening in Sweden, a genocide in slow motion.
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posted on
08/17/2018 9:02:22 AM PDT
by
Shadow44
To: SeekAndFind
Years from now they will discover that a microbe, perhaps toxoplasmosis or some other yet unknown causative agent, ravaged the nordic races and led to their ethnic/cultural suicide.
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posted on
08/17/2018 9:10:30 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: rjsimmon
#12 That is a British Page 3 gal
To: SeekAndFind
Over at the NY Times today, Krugman has an article about the socialist heaven called Denmark. NY Time's readers are wetting their pants over in the comments column.
Of course they all think that the social and economic structure of a country of almost 6 million can be magic carpeted over here to work for our 325 million.
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posted on
08/17/2018 9:21:15 AM PDT
by
CaptainK
("no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker")
To: SeekAndFind
These are all things which I dont generally associate with the country of Sweden for some reason, but it turns out that such acts of unrest are actually rather common there Remember when Trump referred to violence in Sweden and the left mocked him with a twitter campaign #LastNightInSweden with Swedish politicians jumping in to say how foolish Trump was?
Yeah, their efforts at coverup of the rapidly widening cracks in the foundation of their society is starting to unwind.
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posted on
08/17/2018 9:26:39 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
To: SeekAndFind
Rapfugees in the rape capitol of Europe torching hundreds of cars.
Yea, i’ll never visit Sweden.
Always wanted to visit Munich during Oktoberfest....that’s off my list too.
really sad what these europussies have done to their countries..
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posted on
08/17/2018 9:40:24 AM PDT
by
mowowie
To: allendale
You also have to remember that they took in a lot of people that otherwise would have met a bad end with the Nazis.
Also, Sweden was neutral, as was the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Czechoslovakia, the Baltic nations, Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia and a few others whose neutrality didnt mean jack.
An unoccupied Sweden was just dumb luck more than paying off the Germans.
To: brownsfan
This September is their last shot, and that is not an exaggeration.
To: SeekAndFind
I love the reference to roots of the neo Nazi and white supremacist fringe. Weve got one of those parties, too, buts ours was proto -Nazi and white supremacist!
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posted on
08/17/2018 9:59:17 AM PDT
by
j.havenfarm
( 1,500 posts as of 8/10/18. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
To: alexander_busek
True. It’s more about being anti invaders than anti socialism.
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posted on
08/17/2018 10:01:26 AM PDT
by
aquila48
To: alexander_busek
Title doesn't match article. It sounds more like Sweden is on the verge of rejecting the uncontrolled immigration of hordes of uneducated, unassimilable 3rd-Worlders, not socialism. It's hard to restrain immigration, when you provide a huge buffet of goodies to attract them. The big question is, IF Sweden chose to get rid of immigrants, how far would they be willing to go in order to compel them to leave?
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posted on
08/17/2018 10:04:14 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("It rubs the rainbow on it's skin or it gets the diversity again!")
To: rjsimmon
Could I please make a contact sport? At least for one game?
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posted on
08/17/2018 10:05:58 AM PDT
by
jdsteel
(Americans are Dreamers too!!)
To: PapaBear3625
It's hard to restrain immigration, when you provide a huge buffet of goodies to attract them.In the late-19th Century, there was a net emigration of Swedes coming to the U.S. - which offered no "huge buffet of goodies to attract them."
The immigrants currently thronging to Sweden are coming simply because Sweden is not turning them back at the border (or, more precisely: at the airports). They are coming because Sweden is allowing them in. No one is "sneaking" over the border by cover of night. Instead, Swedish border control officers are simply letting them in (because their superiors - ultimately, the ruling government - have ordered them to do so).
Regards,
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posted on
08/17/2018 10:26:41 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: SeekAndFind
Unless you know the background, this type of "History" leaves so much to infer/assume by the reader that they are pointed in the wrong direction and their feelings take over making this a very emotion statement of fact. It is hard to console a grieving person, a person crying over worry and thus the LEFT works hard to keep their corral ENDORFIN'D UP on the Drug of Emotion.
Trump should have the FDA view media content to detect ENDORFIN Cause and Effect on test groups to determine that some articles in print lead to, or cause, undue emotional damage resulting in those affected persons becoming Democrats. The articles should then be rewritten for the test groups without the stimulus-response BAIT to see if the test groups get an emotionally charged response.
The printed word could fall under the FDA and FCC because of the physical bodily response and the colorful language;) wink wink
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posted on
08/17/2018 11:23:32 AM PDT
by
Jumper
To: SeekAndFind
I also think it’s too late. One generation in and the demographic change is permanent, because you can’t deport native citizens. The problem is that the one thing guaranteed to break a welfare state is open borders, as Milton Friedman pointed out. Other things can be patched over, but dilution of the tax-paying population with welfare recipients is fatal. They’re there, they’re not assimilating, and they aren’t going away. And more of them are coming.
To: SeekAndFind
“Hes gentrified a party that traces its roots back to the countrys neo-Nazi, white supremacist fringe.”
Just got to have some NAZIS and supremacists or it ain't a story.
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posted on
08/17/2018 11:57:42 AM PDT
by
dljordan
(WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: Shadow44
Don’t pity. They chose to ignore the reality of what Islam is and now they’re paying the price.
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posted on
08/17/2018 1:08:05 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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