SOMETHING ROTTING IN THE STATE OF SWEDEN

Sweden leads the way once again in the area of social responsibility.

Of course it could also be said that in Sweden the very notion of 'social responsibility' is a great big OXYMORON. The latter syllable of that word is, in my opinion, the default position of most Western social justice warriors.

I digress.....the issue that I began with re: leading the way, is of course the latest call for Swedish citizens to assimilate with the refugees. WTF?

Yes, you read that correctly, it is not incumbent on the refugees to assimilate into Sweden it is for Swedes to assimilate with the refugees:

A charity backed by the Swedish government has launched a campaign denouncing the assimilation of migrants and telling natives to “integrate” with foreign “cultures and languages”.
“It’s time to realise the new Swedes will claim their space” an ad insists, describing the Nordic nation as a “safe space” for migrants and concluding: “There is no way back. Sweden will never be like it was.” [Liam Deacon]

So our resident morons leftists in Australia think that we should follow the example of Sweden in turning to greater government control and perhaps in doing so accomplish the Marxist goal of an earthly utopia?

The nations of Scandinavia and Finland, or Nordic Europe, continue to provide living proof that economic prosperity can be combined with social equality and environmental responsibility. This book, written from an Australian perspective, explores previous outside policy interest in the Nordic nations and outlines some lessons which the English-speaking world, in particular, can learn now from the achievements of the four main Nordic European nations. In terms of income distribution these countries are still much more equal than Australia, Britain, New Zealand and Canada – and nearly twice as equal as the United States. [Andrew Scott]

How soon will our government begin to make compulsory; language courses in Arabic, Swahili, Somali, Indonesian?

I think that if you choose to believe the actual facts rather than the infernal propaganda broadcast on their ABC by assorted 'academics', 'social justice warriors, 'environmental experts' and carpet-bagger Marxist  wannabees, you might discover that the facts are a little more distressing:

By the early 1990s, two decades of “socialism” had turned Sweden from one of the strongest economies in the world to a country in decline and heading into a depression. While free market reforms brought Sweden back from the brink (i.e. the Swedes recognized that “socialism” was failing and reformed before the situation became as bad as it has in Greece and Venezuela), the Swedish experiment with “socialism” will have lasting effects.  http://www.libertyandcommonsense.com/?p=429 

When will we the taxpayer and the intelligent voter learn to differentiate between ideological blather and actual truth and choose to then place the countries long-term well-being above our own short-term gain, at least for the sake of our children if not our grandchildren?