Sweden explained – one giant backfire.

In order to have the adult generation working and creating wealth that can be taxed (current tax rates for low income earners are at approximately 65% of earnings), the Swedish welfare state continuously launches progressive programs to protect them from incidents and problems. Welfarist freedom is a trouble-free, responsibility-free, and benefits-rich existence created by the welfare state.

What we are now seeing in Sweden is the perfectly logical consequence of the welfare state: when handing out benefits and thereby taking away the individual's responsibility for his or her own life, a new kind of individual is created — the immature, irresponsible, and dependent. In effect, what the welfare state has created is a population of psychological and moral children — just as parents who never let their children face problems, take responsibility, and come up with solutions themselves, make their offspring needy, spoiled, and utterly demanding.^[1]

This state of childishness, this dependency explains the stunningly supine acceptance of the take over of Sweden by an alien human horde that couldn't be more incompatible with Sweden's centuries-old culture even if they rode around on giraffes and lived off boiled vulture. Getting your mouth on the tit is Job No. 1 and daddy and mommy will take care of any unpleasantness, notwithstanding the complete absence of evidence that mommy and daddy want to take care of the Unpleasantness in Question.

This must operate throughout Europe where the nationalist, salvationist parties gasp for oxygen, essentially ignored by the electorate. Let there be national annihilation. At least that French guy in Paris had the decency to shed a tear when the Germans marched in.

These were people who struck fear in the hearts of the people of Atlantic Europe. Today, they grovel at the feet of their inferiors, at a loss to know how to defend themselves or even that they've been humiliated by scum.

Who would have thought the progressive reforms to secure workers' rights and prosperity for all in the early 20th century would backfire philosophically and morally?^[2]

"Notes
^[1] How the Welfare State Corrupted Sweden." By Per Bylund, Mises Daily, 5/31/06.
^[2] Id.