Babylon

I was supposed to stop writing political comments about Swedish politics at the moment as, well, it's just a lot of numbers and stupid propositions from the opposition (I know I'm biased, but common, a butler? It even goes against how they bash the current government). Really, when you have understanding for the whole spectrum of politics (economy, law, statistics and political philosophy, history and procedures) you understand how f***ed up the Swedish election is. That's not the worst. The worst is the loathsome Swedish Trade Union Confederation (shortened LO in Swedish). My personal belief is that this organization corrupted the Swedish politics in 1969 when Tage Erlander and Olof Palme couldn't (or didn't want to) control them. It is at this point the economy began to stagnate after the record years and made a halt during the 70's oil crisis.

How so you might ask? Because LO were able to get laws created which gave them an unfavorable advantage over the employers and broke the Saltsjöbaden Agreement that told the politicians to keep the hands of the disputes between these two. Not to talk about the rampant inflation that we just in the early 90's got a hold of (thanks to a right-wing government I might add to all the Swedish leftists out there). You know where to blame the low value of your money. And that's not all, they wanted to socialize all the earnings of the companies into fonds owned by LO., the so called Employee funds. Now, it might sound like I don't appreciate unions, but I do. It's just that the Swedish one has lost their true cause and see more to benefit the Swedish Social democratic party (or those at the top of the organization) instead for their members. All the time you here how bad the non-socialist government is, but do they ever criticizes the socialistic-bloc when they, let say, speak against nuclear plants although the richest of the unions members are working in industries needing a lot of cheap electricity to be competitive in the global market? No, we don't, it doesn't matter that some social democrats even prefer nuclear power, the whole damn party is like a hive-mind when it comes to be in opposition. They are never wrong and always right is their logo.

So why am I venomously attacking them today? Well, one of the Swedish singers (Linda Bengtzing) was invited to a "family picnic", but when they found out that she was voting for the government parties and campaigning with one of them, she was put of the show. Music wise I should probably congratulate them to a decent choice, the problem, except the blatant politicizing and streamline of taste and thoughts in their organization, is the commentators. And I'm talking about those on the public entertainment news panel on SVT. These people... these people are undemocratic as hell. Who do they side with? LO. Why? Because you should be aware that your political choice has consequences. Those that sound democratic? They actually say that if you don't vote or agree with some people or organizations (in this case LO which should work for the workers not a political party and has of their paying members 25 % that votes for the main antagonist party for the Social democrats) they have the right to take you away AFTER they signed you up. That's... ridicules. But you know where they stand when they pull quotas as the best political mean to get more women in Swedish films (7 out of 20 apparently) and that it should be 50 % instead of the more commonly used 40 % ratio. No one even asked what movies they made or if they had the prospects to be good. If I know Swedish cinema, they will SUCK. We only produce 3 kinds of movies, comedies, cop movies or really depressing dramas. Which movies do I prefer? Occasionally a swedish comedy, but I have never seen any on Cinema... or bought them for that matter. So, to be blunt that's a part of the big waste of Swedish ~55 % taxes goes to. And we argue that we need more female producers into movies instead of making good ones. Sometime I really hate know-it-all's. Well, nice to get that out of my systems.