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The pandemic has given the Swede a chance to excel in both of his parade legs to take responsibility and correct himself in the ranks. We have always been masters at keeping our distance. Talents that made us avoid going into total quarantine like Italians, Spaniards and many others. Well, citizens.
Unfortunately, the virus has also exposed our habit, at least as deeply ingrained, of pointing fingers and talking shit about people. Swedish social control stretches harsh and moody from the edges of hand-cut grass in colony areas of the country through angry notes in the laundry room and to a sunken pub in Stockholm where Swedish Democrat Jimmie Åkesson watch a mediocre Saxon tribute band.
Åkesson received a lot of criticism and got bored because he was making a cap at entertainment night. And, of course, it gets weird when fellow party members hand out mouth guards at one end of town, but the party leader snorts at a lectern or hugs his Viking-loving polar bears, swinging axes and mead on the floor. same city.
Just like it gets weird when Christian Democrat Ebba Busch is at SVT and spews her holy wrath at the government’s handling of the crown, while viewers can only think of how she keeps her drunken influencer friend’s hair in a car of the Säpo home overnight. It doesn’t stick together. Their behavior is, of course, anything but good in times of pandemic.
This is how it is. But has it still been a long time since we thought of our elected representatives as moral models? That they should live as they teach, because in the name of honesty, who really does that?
Everyone needs to let a little air out sometimes. Otherwise, we would explode like a Michael Douglas crawling down the road in “Falling down” or like a Gremlin caught in a microwave. You who do not know what I mean, you can search on YouTube.
So we are talking here about two politicians, I almost wrote populists but I held back, whose sales pitch is about order, duty and patriotism. Of course, it is so obvious to shame. And about the slightly indigenous Swedish outrage.
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But even aside from the problem of that lousy taste for music and full-blown social media obscures the more thoughtful invention of current politicians of, for example, scrapping the teaching of the mother tongue, a very good Swedish tradition, would be better If we just let it slide
Let Jimmie wake up in a concrete cap and let Ebba wonder what really happened yesterday. We all make our mistakes. Guilt and shame rarely lead to a good thing and who are we really to cast the first stone?
The crucial thing is, as it is called, persevere and persevere.
We don’t do it by hacking Ebba, Jimmie or at least the old man coughing on the bus or her at the veggie counter who pushed herself a little stupid. Nor do we do it thinking that I am a little better than others at taking care of myself. Because I am not. And you neither.
Nor by arguing that my excuse for being careless is more reasonable than anyone else’s. It is not. But it’s human to be careless and to balance yourself with excuses.
We must persevere and maybe most of all toughen In these miserably boring and in every sense of the word constricted times, we probably need to be a little more forgiving of others. Even against Jimmie and Ebba.
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