Sweden is a beautiful country and has lots of positive
things about it – among other things we actually have, what I believe to be,
the world’s best fast food. I know that sounds strange, but buying a kebab,
pizza or hamburger in Sweden is a divine experience in comparison to must other
countries. Strangely our kebab is not what we are famous for…
Having traveled around the world and lived in several
countries (currently living in the Czech Republic) it’s hard not to see the
clear and obvious differences between a perceived Sweden by Swedes and the real
Sweden in comparison to reality.
For example; healthcare.
When measuring healthcare Sweden almost always rank
at the very top. Although true that when you actually get to meet a doctor or get that operation the healthcare system
in Sweden is normally really good - it does not however take into account the
miles of miles of queues. If you get attacked at night and you´re bleeding from
several wounds and you rush to the ER in Sweden to get help; you need to take a
number, fill out a form or two, and then sit down and wait next to the mummified
corpses of others that came before you. Of course it happens that you get help
faster, as long as you can persuade the nurses to stop drinking coffee
(don´ttry it, they may let you die!), but queues are not the only problem. The very
strict, cold and somewhat unprofessional attitude of healthcare personnel is
horrible in its own right. Customer service is a totally unheard of concept in
the Swedish healthcare system.
But even if you can work around it or you don´t care so much
about my slightly
(just slightly) exaggerated generalization above, you still
need to compere Sweden’s healthcare system to that of others and look at the
cost of it.
Of all the countries I´ve lived in and visited I can honestly and
truthfully say that ONLY the UK has a worse and more antihuman system. You get
much better professional personnel and much quicker and better care in
countries like Turkey, Estonia, Spain and Australia then you will ever get in
Sweden. Whatever way the UN ranks countries and whatever inbreed foolish Swedes
may think, the healthcare system is not top notch - not even close.
Another example; public transport.
Public transport in Sweden is that of a third world country.
It’s so pitiful, so ridiculous, so pointless and so crappy that it should be
the laughing stock of the world. We swedes sort of take pride in being organized
and having things run smoothly and on time – but comes to public transport
we´re drunken Smurfs without any sense of direction.
Swedes seem to think that one bus every 2 hrs is fine as long
as it comes and arrives on time (which it almost never do either). Swedes seem
to think that countless tollbooths, unreadable maps and maze-like structures
for the Metro and train stations in combination with ticket prices equivalent to
a year’s salary in countries like Uganda (where the public transport system is
about on the same level as in Sweden) is the way to go.
Perhaps it looks pretty good on the surface and since all
Swedes speak English and are pretty helpful it’s not that hard to get around,
but in comparison to other countries and looking at the amount of cash thrown
at the system it’s a system with no equal in crappyness. Countries like
Austria, France, Hungary and the Czech Republic is so far ahead of Sweden when
it comes to public transport that it’s like night and day. Not only are almost
every single country on this planet doing it better, they also do it much, much
cheaper.
A third example; the Justice system.
If you end up in a court in Sweden you will not be trialed
by a jury or judges or experts or anything like that. Nope. Instead you will be
trialed by politically appointed
(by the
different political parties) screw-ups hardly even knowing a single thing
about the law. It is not uncommon to see one of them sleeping while another one
reads a paper and a third one stares at you with murder in his eyes because you
work for a living and that guy staring at you is a socialist wanting to steal
your money in order to throw it at Sweden’s dysfunctional public transport
system.
There are anarchists, environmentalists, elderly washouts, and
youngsters barely out of high school deciding your faith. Of course a “real”
judge holds the gavel and presides over the meeting, but putting your life and
future in the hands of a bunch of politically appointed misfits does not feel
like justice now does it?
Sweden also have a history of letting CIA and other criminal
organizations fly in and pick up both foreigners and Swedish citizens and fly
away with them to undisclosed locations. No wonder Assange do not want to be
extradited to Sweden.
Neither would I.
And the police? Oh my… In comparison to other countries the
rate of cleared up crimes is very low and so if you want to commit murder
or rob families or rape someone, Sweden is the place to be. To be fair this
cannot really and only be blamed on a stupefied police force, they get their
hands tied by bureaucratic nonsense and a police officer in Sweden works as a
file clerk than anything else.
You can walk around for a week in the capital of
Stockholm without seeing a single police officer – they are too busy filling
out forms and sharpening their pencils to be out on the street.
Every. Single. Person. I know who has been a victim of a crime
(or several) only give one reason to
go to the police; in order to get insurance money. They have no illusions of
the police actually catching the criminal; Swedes know that that will never
happen.
A fourth example; alcohol
One of the main reasons I will never move back to Sweden is
the absolutely maddening alcohol policy.
Remember this folks; if you ever go to
Sweden and feel the hankering for a couple of beers, you CANNOT go to the
supermarket or the local drugstore – they don´t have it, they are not allowed
to.
You need to go to a government controlled, government owned
and government regulated special store called “
systembolaget”. They have
specific opening hours so if you want a bottle of whiskey late evening or want
to share a bottle of chardonnay with your woman on a Sunday, you are screwed.
And if that stupidity isn´t enough for you, the stores are
not really common occurrences either - especially not on the countryside so you
really need to plan any drinking days, weeks or perhaps even months in advance.
And if that is not enough; how about the pitiful selection
and choices of drinks they allow Swedes to buy? I have more options looking
around my tiny little neighborhood here in Prague then you can find in the
entire country of Sweden.
So of course Swedes, pretty famous for their drinking
habits, buy smuggled booze or make their own moonshine – and, of course,
government sees this as “criminal activity” and lock people up for years after
sentenced by politically appointed ´judges´ and after being paraded as horrible
anti-social thugs by the political correct elitist sphere.
Cannot really make this shit up, sadly it’s true
.
And finally; Political correctness.
Seen a poster with a woman eating a sausage lately?
Not inSweden. If you put up one of those in my birth nation you´ll get crucified in
media and the feminist mafia will either burn down your shop or vilify you to
such a degree that no one will ever dare to step into your establishment again.
In Sweden it is regarded as sexist to hold up a door for a
woman and you are racist if you sing the national anthem. In Sweden we cannot sell
Ice-cream called Nogger because that reminds you of Nigger and an ice cream
called 88 is of course the same as HH or Heil Hitler. In Sweden you need to acknowledge
public holidays of all religions and cultures – otherwise you are a fascist
sexist racist that hates gay people. In Sweden you cannot smoke anywhere
without giving babies cancer. In Sweden a woman yelling ´rape´ is always
correct and the man accused is guilty until politically appointed ´judges´
decides he´s not.
In Sweden a woman showcasing her pussy from different angles
while openly declaring she´s lesbian and stating she enjoy double-sided dildos
while rubbing her clit with a banana is a person with integrity and a good
represent of art while the store selling mentioned dildo needs to hide in a
dark alley so that the feminist mafia, celebrating mentioned woman, do not burn
it down.
You may think that such things are happening in your country
as well, and you would be correct, but we Swedes take it to another level; we institutionalize
it, we put laws in place to protect it, we hire countless amounts of
administrators and bureaucrats to make sure forms and documents exists of all
events and all things perceived as politically correct. Being politically
correct in Sweden is a state of collective zombification and anyone straying
outside of that norm is labeled, accused, spat at and ridiculed by all.
Of course you can have fun with it to - as long as you don´t
mind saying goodbye to a career and are able to wave auf wiedersehen to many of
so called friends. I usually, loudly and as obnoxiously as possible, declare my
love for porn, how much I hate feminists and I argue the Pride Parade is only an
excuse for sexually licentious morons to show their pierced nipples in public. Such
things are pretty good conversation starters, but together with my libertarian
principles it makes me a prime target for the entire society structure. Fun
though.
There you have it;
and if you ever thought about moving to Sweden, please don´t.