Sweden used to be a liberal wet dream, but then it went its own way on the coronavirus. From Skinny at theburningplatform.com:
The Authoritarian Left Finds an Enemy in a Long Time Ally
It’s a sad day for the socialist left. Scandinavia is no longer the socialist paradise of legend. (It was never a socialist paradise to begin with, but we should never let the facts get in the way of a good legend.) First it was Norway and visions of Ollie, the sustainable fisherman paddling around the fjords eking out a meager living. He was dirt poor, but at least he was equal, and isn’t that the point. The lefto looneys loved Norway and with a suicide rate high enough to make it the envy of the world, what’s not to love. Then they discovered oil in the North Sea. Anything but oil.
Why couldn’t they find unicorns or rainbows, or even solar panels, or Tesla batteries for that matter? Why did it have to be oil? And even worse, why did Norway have to harvest that oil. Why couldn’t they just leave it under the seabed for Mother Gaia to drink? And wealth. If there is anything a lefty hates more than oil. it’s wealth. And Norway has it. That gusher of black gold has lifted their per capita GDP to 78k per year ranking them 3rdth in the world. They are still pretty equal but rich and equal. Now instead of lutefisk, Ollie munches on caviar while sipping champagne on the deck of his sloop. To the misery loves company left, poor and unequal is preferable to rich and equal. Just ask Cuba.
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