Day's Links - 2016-09-14

There is a very good documentary on the breakdown on Swedish society as impacted by its ridiculous social policies. This one deals almost exclusively with immigration.

It has been done by non-Swedes from all appearances but whoever did it had done his/her homework, as many of the points are those which are easily glossed over by others who speak of the place.

It is presumably done by a non-Catholic, or at the very least, from a non-Catholic point of view, otherwise there would have been even more reasons to explain the breakdown of Swedish society. I would have liked it to go into how a society built on a faulty foundation - socialism  in this case - is bound to make more mistakes. Since, for instance, socialism is at its essense an anti-Christian ideology, it promotes both the breakdown of the family - most recently with homosexuality as its weapon - and the promotion of anti-Christian faiths, most recently Islam. That a socialist cannot see the obvious incompatibility between feminism and homosexuality on the one hand, and Islam on the other, is only attibutable to the fact that it is difficult to switch on common sense in one aspect once one has disposed of it in another.

There certainly could have been more mention of other stuff to accentuate the fact that Sweden is on a very negative downard spiral - the high rape rate even excluding Islamic immigration, the high suicide rates, the high depression rates, the high divorce rates, the high rates of loneniless - but as the documentary was only focused on immigration, it missed out on that, and was poorer for it. The documentary does speak about the post-Christian mentality of Sweden, and it also mentions that there is good immigration and bad immigration, but as far as Sweden goes, immigration is a symptom of a much deadlier malady - namely the rejection of not only God, but of natural law and natural decency -, and it is only the most visible one because it is the only one which seems to have easy solutions - although even those easy solutions are never discussed.

In any case I would certainly urge anybody who can find the time to take some time and watch it. A lot of work was put into it, and even though the analysis is deficient because it almost treats immigration as the root cause of the problem and not the most obvious symptom, much of the analysis is certainly spot-on. It will certainly annoy the political correctness crowd, which is only a bonus, but for someone willing to take a hard look at Sweden in an attempt to reverse its seemingly inevitable collapse, it will be a good aid for sure.

It is, by the way, instructive to compare Sweden's mainly clueless and treacherous political leadership, with that of Mother Russia.

Whereas Sweden seems to pride itself in multiculturalism at the expense of its own citizenry. Vladimir Putin does not hesitate to say that 'Russia is first of all for Russians, and immigration must benefit Russians first' (not a direct quote, but paraphrased more or less directly). That is the sort of common sense statement which in a sane country and a sane world would not even need to be spoken but which seems to the leftists to be gulag-material.

Those are words from a statesman who sees his primary job as building his nation, as opposed to the Western leftists who seem to view their primary objective as the destruction of Christianity, even it it means taking their country down with them.