They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different. Yeah, but we replaced them with a new

They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different. Yeah, but we replaced them with a new 1%. Until recently, Sweden basically had an aristocratic caste consisting of the inner party of the Social Democrats, the labor leaders, the head editors of the major newspapers, etc. Basically a clique of people doing deals behind closed doors and having their own shared mythology/worldview as well as exclusive channels to the populace. In the last 6 years, Sweden has been going through a transition phase where the assumptions of the last 70 years are being challenged. For instance, many social democrats considered the elections of 2006 and 2010 to be something of a coup d'etat (because they broke 70 years of near total domination by their party). Another big change is the increasing fragmentation of the media - the "gammelmedia" (old media) no longer holds a monopoly on information. I am not dissing the social democrats - they were a clear improvement on the previous feudal system - but they've become stale and out of touch IMHO. As an example there is still no insight into how they pick their party leaders. A new one was just announced today, and no one really knows how that decision was reached. It's not like in the US, where people can actually have some choice of candidates for Presidency.