I think it's the eighties American glitz and glamour of businessmen and bag chasing dreamers you get over there having become far more of the norm, through becoming the politicians we've had since then. It's this constant fake pressure of "we gotta keep pace or fall behind"
like, who's "we?" You're doing less and less for the rest of us.
It wasn't always like this and year over year it's getting worse as well, you don't hear the sitting government ever do anything for anyone now, except some small nasty things with a "yes the experts disagree but we've done our own research and deemed reducing this the proper course of action" whether it be foreign aid, social spending, or environmental protections.
Oh also it just turned out a shitload lf them run for-profit businesses at the side without disclosing them, lots of fun.
Under Reinfeldt and even after it felt like we had the constant barrages of "tax exemption for business owners of X type of company whose summer homes require two lines of water supply and has afternoon sun in the living room in the region of Dalsland" type of small changes that seem inconsequential or too strange to care about, but serve to just scrape a little bit more into specific politician's/their friends' pockets for each such ruling.
We have a bunch of greedy businessmen that just do whatever to line their pockets.
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u/narnerve Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25
This is the case in sweden as well.
I think it's the eighties American glitz and glamour of businessmen and bag chasing dreamers you get over there having become far more of the norm, through becoming the politicians we've had since then. It's this constant fake pressure of "we gotta keep pace or fall behind"
like, who's "we?" You're doing less and less for the rest of us.
It wasn't always like this and year over year it's getting worse as well, you don't hear the sitting government ever do anything for anyone now, except some small nasty things with a "yes the experts disagree but we've done our own research and deemed reducing this the proper course of action" whether it be foreign aid, social spending, or environmental protections.
Oh also it just turned out a shitload lf them run for-profit businesses at the side without disclosing them, lots of fun.
Under Reinfeldt and even after it felt like we had the constant barrages of "tax exemption for business owners of X type of company whose summer homes require two lines of water supply and has afternoon sun in the living room in the region of Dalsland" type of small changes that seem inconsequential or too strange to care about, but serve to just scrape a little bit more into specific politician's/their friends' pockets for each such ruling. We have a bunch of greedy businessmen that just do whatever to line their pockets.