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48 lines
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The Swedish dream
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Sweden is probably (together with Japan) the most undemocratic developed
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country in the world. For all practical purposes Sweden has been a single party
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system for the last 60 years, the single party system is so strong, that the
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few very short times other parties have been in power their policies even more
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socialist and it never was long before the real Socialists were back in power.
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Cronyism and corruption are rampant, except that they have become so
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institutionalized that they are accepted as normal.
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In the Socialist government power has passed from generation to generation,
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they are so imbredded that the Prime Minister was married with the CEO of the
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national liquor monopoly (which is one of the biggest, if not the biggest,
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company in the country and which provides huge amounts of income to the
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government).
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Politicians abused the rent control system so they can pay almost nothing for
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huge apartments in the center of town while everyone else has to pay exorbitant
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prices for a pathetic sociality flat so far from everything that it takes you
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two hours to get to work.
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There are less than five construction companies that control all the housing in
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the whole country thanks to exclusive contracts from the government.
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The list goes on and on, Sweden society is a lie, don't believe it.
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Neutrality and pacifism
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Sweden likes to boast of being a neutral and peace loving nation that doesn't
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even want to join NATO, while at the same time the Swedish military industry is
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one of the main exporters, and sells to all kinds of corrupt and despotic
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governments all over the world, specially the USA(note that USA-bashing is the
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Swedish national sport).
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But you will never see any Swedish person mention or admit this, nobody talks
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about it, it is like there is a social agreement to never bring this up, just
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like the cooperation with the Nazis during WWII.
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See also
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* [Who pays for Sweden's free lunch?](http://www.thelocal.se/7305/)
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* [Mob rule in Sweden](http://www.thelocal.se/6311/20070205/)
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* [Should the United States Be More Like Scandinavia?](http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=3688)
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