And of course two days ago the half-wit invented a terrorist attack in my home country, Sweden:
His lies are now more a hazard to himself than anyone else, which is fine by me. The reason is of course that his lies are so obvious to every honest onlooker to the point that I feel I can see him make them up as he goes. Self-deception is Trump's only real ally, and although a powerful one, I seriously doubt it could help this imbecile pull through with any real support from educated, smart, sensible republicans.
But Trump is right-wing, racist and equipped with a, shall we say, vacuous brain. Unfortunately self-deception is not restricted to this type of people, and tonight in a heated political discussion with a close fiend I witnessed first hand just how far cognitive dissonance can push someone to not even want to hear any other version than a long-held belief. Alternative facts may more wide-spread than you might think. I don't want to delve into bad news, but let's all stop beating about the bush and be blatantly truthful and speak about the facts:
- Unfortunately even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. Trump proved that the press is biased, by simply winning the election. Not only the left-wing press is easily misled, mind you.
- Sweden has a problem with immigration and crime, as an immigrant is 2.5 times more likely to commit a crime. You may argue it's not the immigrants faults, and sure they have a harder time than the natives, but that doesn't change the numbers.
- As many as every tenth Afghan boy in rural Pashtun areas (middle and northern Afghanistan) may be victims to pedophiles. The practice of "bacha bazi", where poor families sell their sons as sex slaves and status markers to rich warlords, is common. This is an ancient tradition that has picked up speed again after the Talibans' where forced out of power, and the story has been told in numerous documentaries. The Afghan police have a sex slave in every checkpoint and most officers consider it a fringe benefit. Here is a rape case reported, as typically in the mainstream Swedish media, without mentioning the five assailants background, which might seem relevant in this case? Even though convicted for life-threatening and filmed rape, the culprits are not deported since Afghanistan is considered dangerous; but this goes against what many Swedes feel is just treatment. Believing the bacha bazi problem will go away when Afghans cross the border is self-deception. (I note that the problem is even worse in Pakistan, but hardly any refugees come to Sweden.)
- The Afghan view on women is of course even worse, but then again I have a hard time believing anybody would deny that.
- In Gothenburg's biggest newspaper we find an uncommonly frank 10-year-old article describing the state for Somalian refugees in Sweden's second largest city. 20% of the adolescent males has been suspected of violent crime! Many of the attackers use a knife on their first felony. Somali men themselves think 10-50% of Somali men are addicted to kat, which fuel apathy and partly explain why 45% of the Somalis have no job and zero income. A lot of the families live off of welfare, and the man often abandon the family or deceive to get more, and the women often making herself unemployable. The youth have poor grades, if any, and lacking both father figures and role models they see little point in studying. This is not going to go away by looking the other way or by "not spreading prejudice."
- Police, ambulance, firefighters and security guards are often harassed and threatened by gangs in the Swedish suburbs that have a dense immigrant population. Let's take today, a Monday night, as an example, The police reports a riot in a Stockholm suburb with 7-8 cars burning, a policeman injured by a thrown stone, pillaging of stores, and two assults. Police had to fire warning shots. In a suburb of Eskilstuna three cars were demolished with an axe. In another Eskilstuna suburb a man was stabbed. (As a side-note a burglary happened only 500 meters from my house, earlier an acquaintance of mine who is a policewoman claimed that eastern European gangs often have been suspected of the many burglaries in the area, but there is no way to be sure as only 4% of burglaries are resolved in Sweden.) Theft in Frölunda Torg, which is one of the most notorious areas of Gothenburg. A facade in a Stockholm suburb was set ablaze. In another suburb a betting shop was mugged. In two different locations in Södertälje two cars were set on fire and two more damaged, one hour apart. Youth has been throwing stones at passing trains in a Stockholm suburb. To anybody who follows the news, these are not isolated crimes on a special Monday, this is commonplace.
A lot could be said on the topic of unwanted, imported culture, such as the "taharrush" in Cologne, Germany where 1k immigrant men sexually assaulted women around central station, or about the fact that only 75% of immigrant children cope with elementary scool in Sweden. But you get the pickie.
The second largest party in Sweden now is a right-wing party with neo-nazi roots. I want to keep this country to the left of center and along with that solidarity, decency, high taxation, transparency, openness and sticking to the truth. So please, for starters, let's just call out the real facts (not the alternative ones) and not try to hide truths for yourself or anybody else in the name of misguided helpfulness.
