Quote:
Originally Posted by Seekers
What the social democrats want is for people to entertain futile and vain hopes that they will be protected against the evil spectre of capitalism and other evil right wing spectres. Now I'm going to tell you what it's really like here. The social democrats want people to be poor, because that's how they can keep the myth about their spectres alive, which in turn will fool most of the population that they have to vote for the left. That's 70 years of Swedish politics up to this moment.
|
I heard that in many countries Social Democrats and other leftists, when in power, tend to ally themselves with the big business (Capitalists) and crush the middle class. Through high taxes they dissuade people from starting their own businesses, while they bribe the poor with the welfare. The money for the welfare benefits comes from the big capitalists, who are more than happy to hand it out to the government, because they like living in such a society in which they won't have too much to worry about the comptetition of the small or medium-size businesses. As they are extremely rich, they are able even to stand high taxes without suffering serious damage. If they fail, the government would subsidize them anyway.
On the other hand, the big business produces many very cheap products which poor people are able to buy, the mass consumer goods. So they get back the money they handed out to the state in the form of taxes, with very possibly a great surplus. So, it boils down to promoting poverty and welfare, for the sake of mass consumption.
I know nothing about Sweden and I don't know if the situation there bears any resemblance to the pattern I just described, but I heard generally that this is the model on which various "Social Democrats" operate and thrive these days.