Hello guys,
It is seldom one sees such sober analysis. I get tempted to contribute with a lot of reflections, but I'd better not start, or there'd be no end to it...
Well... Look... I'll just comment on the first line... OP started with
"Because everyone knows that Sweden is the most important country in the world. At least that is what our government seems to believe..."
Yes, not just the government.
The swedes do not take to an extrovert, manifest, parading nationalism, but in their stubborn silent way are probably the most nationalistic people in the world.
Look - the rage the "Sweden Democrats", Sd, have provoked in the Swedes, is because they have insulted the Swedish sense of supreme vainglory.
The Sd nationalism is a very humbled down version of the Social Democratic nationalism that the Swedish people is massively inculcated with.
The Swedes are
good, by proclamation.
Just hear a Social Democratic leader simply proclaim that Sweden shall have the best schools, the best healthcare, full employment and the highest salaries, because swedes are the best workers (that is understood). And Sweden is always the nation ready to give and help. All this will simply happen as long as the base "egoists" of the opposition don't sabotage it.
He just needs to proclaim all this, and Sweden believes in it, the opposition can only compete by saying the same thing, just change some keywords.
Swedes feel sorry for anyone who is not a Swede. They should be given a chance to come to Sweden, so that they shall learn what peace, prosperity and happiness means. They shall learn what it means to work... to keep time. They shall learn what democracy,
real democracy, is - something only known in Sweden, and Sweden shall teach them and help them.
Globalism has complicated the situation, and wrecked the base of the Swedish self-esteem. The "third world" has had a swift development the last few decades. They can no-more serve as the innocent, starving images of people who need Sweden - to help and teach - more than anything else. And - guess what - it was not socialism that brought about this development.
Sd is an update of the Swedish ideology - Social democracy - an update that takes account of the reality of the present world. An ambition not to speak nonsense, but to realize real circumstances and limitations.
There is the old SD and the new humbled down Sd.
Now, since I am as anti-social democracy as anyone could be, I am consequently not Sd either. Had I been SD, I'd have been Sd.
Why do these misfit boys (for the original Sd:er is a boy) love Sweden so much? Their love is not requited.
They apparently had the capacity to think for themselves in school etc, so they could not just bleat with the flock. They found the cracks and the nonsense in the PC-talk, so they didn't get good grades, could not submit to it.
So how in the hell did they get the idea that the answer to this is to - Love Sweden?
So these boys could think, but it didn't prevent them from committing themselves to a paradox. Sd loves Sweden. Sweden hates Sd.
I would never commit myself to courting a lady for 20 years, just getting spat on and railed at, and called a loser, and evil, and in the end she just takes my money (accepts my ideas!), and continues to despise me.
In the end one must always adapt to reality. The same PC-nonsense cannot go on forever, must reach a cliff, and reinterpret its formulas.
And so it has, and we have seen how easy it is for the old SD just to transform themselves over a night and use the same policies as they the day before branded as racism and nazism. The swedes are so fatuous, they can do such tricks without a sense of contradiction and dishonour.
The sedate, compulsory braggery will continue. That is permanent.
Alright - I paint a much simplified picture, for sure. But one must start somewhere saying something about these things, and then one must stop somewhere, and now I have written long enough - just as a reflection upon that first sentence.
I like your analysis, guys. But it seems we do not agree on the best ways forward. Yet.