Politically incorrect journeys (2): Sweden

This is a travel blog about Malmö, Scandinavia and the failure of multiracialism throughout northern Europe.

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In 1975, the Swedish government decided to officially declare basically homogenous Sweden a “multicultural” nation. The main motivation was the laudable impulse to help refugees. Sweden was not alone in this idealism; Denmark, for example, also passed a law in 1983 effectively granting “every person on earth the right to asylum in Denmark,” according to Morten Uhrskov Jensen in Et delt folk (A divided people). But Sweden really meant it. Since 1980, over 1.5 million long-term residency permits have been handed out, to refugees and other migrants, bloating its population to 9.5 million. More or less from the moment they set foot on Swedish soil, new arrivals are called “nyanlända svenskar” (newly landed Swedes), whether or not they have any ethnic or any other connection with the country, or knowledge of the Swedish language.

The Swedish government loves asylum seekers. In 2013, it took in 135,000, almost 20 percent of the whole EU refugee intake that year, and more than any other country in the union, including Germany, which has nine times Sweden’s population. (Neighbouring Finland, by contrast, keeps its annual asylum approvals at a fraction of that level, in the low thousands). The inflow has grown so fast that the Swedes are running out of accommodation, and are having to house new arrivals in campsites and warehouses. The impact on daily life in Sweden’s cities and towns is clear at a glance, even to the casual visitor.

The implications for Sweden’s future as the homeland of the Swedes are more serious. Under Swedish law, Swedish nationality has become meaningless. All humans are now potentially Swedes. The government recently announced, without bothering to run it past the Swedish electorate, that permanent residence (Permanent Uppehållstillstånd, or PUT), would be given directly to all Syrian refugees who had made it to Sweden, and to their families as well, bypassing any multi-year application process. The decision was evidently taken by a single senior bureaucrat at the Swedish Migration Agency, Mikael Ribbenvik. Since almost all non-combatants in a country at war can call themselves “refugees,” and objective, reliable documentation of such claims is almost impossible, this measure effectively means the 20 million remaining Syrians have as much right to live in Sweden as Swedish citizens, almost immediately, if they can just get there. Because of the travel difficulty, only 16,000 asylum applications were in fact made by Syrians in 2013, about a ninth of Sweden’s huge overall intake that year. But they’re working on it.

All but one of Sweden’s major political parties unreservedly support unrestricted immigration. According to the Centre Party, “increased migration to Sweden means that more people can participate and contribute to our collective prosperity and growth. Immigration is a huge potential resource for municipalities.” Although this flies in the face of reality, which is one of broken communities, racial tension and high unemployment wherever immigrants are “contributing to Sweden’s collective prosperity,” it is pretty much the line of the entire establishment. According to MP Staffan Danielsson, the Centre Party is even considering urging Sweden to “go a step further and let refugees seek asylum at our embassies in their respective countries” to bypass people-smugglers. At the end of 2014, former Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt implied in an oddly worded comment that new immigrants who had come to develop the country in future had as much right, if not more, to his homeland than his own compatriots with generations of Swedish ancestry. His meaning was clear enough, however, for a Danish politician to ponder whether Denmark should claim Skåne and other formerly Danish holdings in Sweden back, “given that Swedes no longer care about their country.”

In a normal country, the Centre Party and the other six members of the “sjuklövern” (seven-leaf clover) alliance of mainstream parties would be considered dangerous utopian extremists, and Reinfeldt simply a traitor, while the single major dissident party, the Sweden Democrats, which wants to rein in immigration and still believes in the now heretical concept of an ethnic Swedish homeland, would be the common-sense centre. But Sweden is no longer a normal country.

In fact, Sweden is not only a weird country, but also a divided and unhappy one. The arrival of the Sweden Democrats on the scene in 2010, the first new party voted into parliament for some time, was a huge defeat for the establishment and its multiracial project. For five years now, Sweden’s propagandist press has spewed bile and smears against the Sweden Democrats in a tacitly coordinated campaign to bring it down. Instead, the party has slowly grown in appeal and has reached a double-figure share of the electorate in votes and polls. The Sweden Democrats have made it easier for ordinary Swedes to challenge the extremism of their government and to publicly voice their fears that the country is headed for disaster. They have legitimised dissent. For this they have been marginalized and demonized by the establishment, which, in its wholly intolerant imposition of “tolerance,” has arguably become the most authoritarian country in the west.

Let writer Julia Caesar speak for the many ordinary Swedes who hate what is happening, but have been cowed into silence by social pressure and the very real threat of job loss and even physical attack.

“Personally, I live in a lost country. I was born in one country and live in a completely different one. In my lifetime, Sweden has been transformed beyond recognition, and this has happened without the permission of the people. More and more of us are living in exile in our own country. Hundreds of thousands of us are escaping in a quiet and ongoing exodus from the multicultural society that has been forced upon us .. to the pockets and oases that yet remain. Within us, we carry on the memories of a country where we felt naturally at home, where we could recognize ourselves in the people around us and were secure in the belief that nothing bad would happen to us....

I live in constant protest and profound grief over all that has been taken away from me, from all of us. I rage over the smears of the politically correct elite for the millions of people who built Sweden to what it once was, and their disrespect for them. They are violating something that does not belong to them. We live in a huge, enforced lie. And one day it will collapse. As all lies do.”

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