Sweden turns out quite strange of a country for the 21st century, reminds me of the USSR in late 80s: - The situation is bad, real bad, but no one publicly ack

Sweden turns out quite strange of a country for the 21st century, reminds me of the USSR in late 80s: - The situation is bad, real bad, but no one publicly acknowledges that; - The government, instead of taking unpopular and painful but needed steps to try and handle the problem, makes itself "don't see any problem, our people are happy"; - By all European standards the policy is a mistake, but no one in office steps forward and says so, they rather play to the tune of "we can't see any problem, public opinion of the government is quite high". Kinda of asking to play louder the band on the Titanic. - Swedes keep on "trusting the government to do what they do as they know better", while it is unclear on what their trust is based. - To outsiders, this attitude of all sides involved sort of means "we accepted 'the devil take the hindmost' philosophy as we want to keep our daily happy about routine unchanged, so be it". Again, as I said - typical thinking of USSR of 80s. It didn't end well.