Warns that democracy is being dismantled – while we engage in nonsense

Published 22 June 2024 at 11.52

Domestic. Democracy-threatening measures such as handing over the military control of Sweden to the USA and introducing Chat control 2 are overshadowed when the Swedish debate is about troll factories, SD and other non-issues. This is what the historian and journalist Åsa Linderborg writes in a column in Aftonbladet.

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In the column, Linderborg draws the picture of an infantile Swedish debate where the media and politicians spend the time to wrangle in some kind of culture war while important changes in a terrifying direction are carried out in the shadows.

One of them is chat control 2 – letting the authorities scan material that you send or receive online – another is the decision to hand over the military control of Swedish territory to a foreign power, which the Riksdag approved on Tuesday.

At the same time, the Swedish media only talks about irrelevant issues as if the interest in such matters never ended, notes Linderborg.

“There is talk of the threat to democracy. We have spent weeks on the SD's troll factories, it is the cry against the drag into eternity amen”, she writes.

According to Åsa Linderborg, it will not be long long before nuclear warheads are deployed at places like Årsta havsbad because the only people who criticize the development are “a group of admittedly beautiful old people” such as Jan Guillou, Hans Blix and Gudrun Schyman.

Against them are the “Social Democrats, the Moderates, the military-industrial complex, DN's distinguished 'common sense' and public service”, according to Linderborg, who states that a referendum would have been the right way to introduce the DCA agreement even though the population had probably swallowed the media propaganda and voted yes to the agreement anyway .

“In a functioning democracy, you shouldn't be able to blame everything on the elite”, writes Linderborg.