Let’s find a scapegoat

The Swedish election 2010 was basically as a lot of people would call a failure. “The Sweden Democrats” (that wants a drastic limitation regarding the asylum and family reunification in Sweden and wants stricter immigration politics in Sweden etc.) or “SD” as they’re called in Sweden, joined the parliament due to what the people in Sweden voted for.

I’m going to share some of my thoughts about The Sweden Democrats and why they “won” a place in the Swedish parliament. My first opinion about why The Sweden Democrats could join the Swedish parliament is that they simply manipulated and utilized people. Sweden has crises with jobs etc. so people were getting scared, aggressive and worried. When you feel scared and worried you also feel weak, you want someone to appear and save you from all things that scares you. When you feel aggressive you want a solution too, right? So, what the people in Sweden ask their selves was: Will we be able to make it? Will we provide our family with food and keep our jobs in the future?

Literally what the Sweden Democrats did was to utilize those feelings that existed among the people. To be able to succeed this little plan of theirs they simple had to find a scapegoat. Off course the muslims became the scapegoats, because many people think “they’re not like us”, they’re people we don’t know that much about since they’re not that integrated in our country yet. SD persuaded the Swedish people. They said that it was the immigrants/muslims fault that Sweden isn’t perfect.

Then we have this paradox. If an immigrant works in Sweden, SD says that the immigrants are taking our jobs. If the immigrant doesn’t have a job, then “the immigrants are living on the social services and their grants”. As an immigrant you don’t “win” anything in Sweden, that’s a true fact. So let’s just stop being so hostile and start accept the people around you. The immigrants favors the society as much as everyone else.

Just think about it for one second.