I don't know if his take on Sweden is right. I had an American friend move to Sweden with his Swedish wife because neither of them could find good jobs here, and their children's American college tuitions were paid by Sweden (kids moved back too in the end), they all got high paying jobs.
I recently watched a youtube video made by Swedes who had left their country because it had become so repressive that it was an impossible place to live. Yes jobs and benefits are available, but only to those who strictly follow the party line. Dissent of any type is not tolerated. Even a politically incorrect comment on social media results in not only loss of job, but loss of entire career, as unions and companies and even private citizens dare not assist the politically incorrect person for fear of joining him/her on the untouchables list. This sounds dangerously close to the repressive policies of China, where the mobile execution vans whir through the cities daily, and practitioners of the now forbidden philosophy/religion Falun Gong has cost a few million Chinese their lives in the torture camps recently. I like the theory of Socialism. It sounds good, and looks good on paper. But unfortunately in practice it never works, is always corrupt, and always results in mass murder of innocent citizens. From all appearances it appears that Sweden is on that path, and is only a step or two behind the Chinese in their practices.
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2impendingdoom ago
I don't know if his take on Sweden is right. I had an American friend move to Sweden with his Swedish wife because neither of them could find good jobs here, and their children's American college tuitions were paid by Sweden (kids moved back too in the end), they all got high paying jobs.
huhWHAThuh ago
I recently watched a youtube video made by Swedes who had left their country because it had become so repressive that it was an impossible place to live. Yes jobs and benefits are available, but only to those who strictly follow the party line. Dissent of any type is not tolerated. Even a politically incorrect comment on social media results in not only loss of job, but loss of entire career, as unions and companies and even private citizens dare not assist the politically incorrect person for fear of joining him/her on the untouchables list. This sounds dangerously close to the repressive policies of China, where the mobile execution vans whir through the cities daily, and practitioners of the now forbidden philosophy/religion Falun Gong has cost a few million Chinese their lives in the torture camps recently. I like the theory of Socialism. It sounds good, and looks good on paper. But unfortunately in practice it never works, is always corrupt, and always results in mass murder of innocent citizens. From all appearances it appears that Sweden is on that path, and is only a step or two behind the Chinese in their practices.
2impendingdoom ago
Maybe people who actually live in Sweden can comment on Wohl's claims.