It has already started in Sweden. Migrants from the East under attack!
I live here in Sweden. It's begun. The first thing to do was to
organize a political party that will do something about that. The
Sweden Democrats are (as usual) campaigning on a platform
of get tough on crime and on gangs, more police, more prisons
and expelling criminals who aren't citizens from the country, and
on shutting down various Islamic schools. It's been so successful
that the Social Democrats (i.e. the party that brought you this mess)
have had to promise all sorts of measures to promote-or-require
integration, and are now hot to shut down the same schools. They
are even campaigning on a platform of Nationalism, and this week
are competing over 'who can put the most criminals behind bars'.
This really is a 'pigs are flying' moment.
This is because the real platform of the Social Democrats is
'whatever it takes to get elected' and right now, in Sweden, you
cannot get anywhere by pointing fingers and chanting 'islamophobia,
racism, nazi'. The Social Democrats have been saying that for quite
some time and nobody is buying it any more. This paper
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24173408/ from 2013 is finally
making a difference. It says that 1% of the population of Sweden
are responsible for 63% of the violent crime. And they get socialized
into crime as children and youths. Things are believed to have
become worse in the last 10 years .... definitely the criminals are
younger.
At some point you cannot hide the fact that people who become
dangerous violent criminals do not do so because they lack other
opportunities, but rather because a dangerous violent criminal is
what they prefer to be, despite having plenty of other opportunities.
And the immigrants are taking notice. Polls say that immigrants
who want the criminals out of their neighborhoods -- most of
them -- are now willing to vote for right wing parties that promise
to do something about the problem rather than suffer the depredations
any more. Immigrants are speaking up, saying that the Social
Democrats policy of multiculturalism has made it harder for them
to integrate, even though they wanted to very much, and that law
and order is more important than a shared ethnic background.
So if the Social Democrats can no longer count on the immigrant
vote, then they have correctly reasoned they need to get tough on
crime as well.
Moreover, Covid policy has given globalism a black eye here. Since
Sweden is still an export-driven and not a consumer economy, we're
all pretty up for the sort of globalism that means we can sell our
goods abroad with the minimum of fuss and tariffs. But the notion
that we might sign something that gives somebody else the right
to lock us up in our houses and not determine our own health
policies during a pandemic sits very poorly right now. 'I have seen
international leadership, and it's of exceedingly low quality'
doesn't surprise anybody here.
Latest polls here:
https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/sweden/
Nobody can predict whether we will have a left wing coalition
government or a right wing one. Exciting election times.
