Swedish journalist: Dismantling Sweden’s welfare state

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Swedish journalist Kajsa Ekis Ekman says dismantling the welfare state sparked major issues, with the ruling class shifting blame to immigrants. #Sweden

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00:00What do you think of that data and those graphs?

00:04Do you think that is a valid argument?

00:06Or could we be looking at different kinds of data and get different sorts of answers?

00:11Well, first of all, I'm very honoured to be on the show.

00:14So thank you so much for the invitation.

00:16I definitely think there is a discontent, not only in Western Europe, also in Eastern Europe, but with the current state of affairs.

00:23And I think immigration might have something to do with it.

00:26But I think it's minor.

00:27The main cause is the dismantling, not to say the slaughtering, of the welfare state that we have witnessed during the past 20, 30 years.

00:36Sweden used to be a country, for example, where we had zero unemployment.

00:39I mean, the unemployment we had was people just switching jobs.

00:43You know, we used to have a welfare state that took care of everybody.

00:47Now, the neoliberal project has obviously failed.

00:50It was evident after 2008.

00:52Neoliberalism came to an end.

00:54Now, the ruling classes were very careful not to take the blame for this.

00:59So they shifted ideology from a neoliberal ideology where, you know, everybody should fend for themselves and basically there should be no state,

01:06into a kind of extreme right-wing ideology, blaming the immigrants.

01:12Okay.

01:12I think it's interesting.

01:12Well, the todos, we haven't been looking at do was, uh, it's trying to think.

01:15That's really cool.

01:16We must, we're doing my work at the plan topics that's...

01:17we have a really cool business.

01:17So, we can kind of think more of these teachers

01:18to play them on again.

01:19We must, uh, across and acknowledge options by our cirst immune system.

01:20Thank you so much so much.

01:20So, think we could go both...

01:22I think we can definitely hear from this, uh...

01:22But yeah, thank you so much.

01:22Well, that's maybe...

01:24I think we didn't really-, we can do a wait-to-wбо-石 and eventually easier what they are in there.

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