Not Scandinavian Socialism

The reason socialism used to work in places like Norway and Sweden was that they were small, resource-rich, homogeneous countries. The Norwegians had plenty of petroleum and the Viking ethos of willing sacrifice for each other. The Swedes had high ideals and few foreigners. Now, both countries have awakened to the notion that they let in too many and the wrong refugees and that their state generosity is no longer affordable or even tenable. No, you can't pay cradle to grave benefits to someone who has been in Damascus for ninety-five percent of his life but thinks Stockholm is a meat market for him to prey on blonde women. Socialism really does not work which is why when it is applied, it eventually leads to the populace being forced under the barrels of guns.