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Sweden's Self-Inflicted Nightmare - NYTimes.com
mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/opinion/swedens-self-inflicted-nightmare.html?_r=2&referer=, posted 2015 by peter in opinion politics sweden
The real nightmare for Swedish politics is not that it now includes the kind of continental-style far-right party it once thought itself immune to. It is rather that mainstream forces have surrendered all critical perspectives on immigration to a party with which they can neither collaborate nor bear to see affirmed. Had a transparent and dynamic public discussion been taking place in Sweden during the past months — a discussion that acknowledged both the need for human solidarity and the limitations of the country’s infrastructure — a more sustainable immigration policy might have emerged. Instead, it seems ill-fated policies will not be altered until the country brings itself to the brink of collapse.