They tried to create a middle path between unfettered capitalism and communist totalitarianism.
The ideal is to give people security without taking away their freedom. Its a tough balancing act.
I’m not sure we could improve on it.
You are quite right.
But the "good times" are over for Scandinavia. Not having a homegrown perpetual underclass of dusky people, they thought is would be "cool" to import hundreds of thousands of parasites with no cultural, no historical, no religious, and no linguistic ties to Scandinavia.
But not only did these imports lack those somewhat passive ties to Scandinavia, they brought red hot active hatred of those very ideas with them. The differences were not passive; the "guests" are hell bent on the outright destruction of their hosts.
“The ideal is to give people security without taking away their freedom. Its a tough balancing act.”
That depends on your definition of freedom and security! By MY definition of those two words it is NOT a tough balancing act it is entirely impossible. In fact I would call it almost a contradiction in terms. How can one be both secure and free?