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Why America is BACKSLIDING in Democracy

  Sweden is a mess.   It just made history by appointing its first female Prime Minister, she lasted eight hours. YES, EIGHT HOURS, she resigned after eight hours on the job.   Somali rappers are decimating native Swedish born rappers ( see the death of EINAR), and gun violence has reached an all time high.   “…. a throng of a hundred or so young men, most of them from African or Middle Eastern minorities, started fighting in a square in Hjallbo, a suburb of Gothenburg, Sweden’s second city. Members of rival gangs seem to have started the scrap over the theft of a moped. Two days later a man in a nearby grocery shop was shot in the back of the head, thought to be as an act of revenge for the gangland battle. Then a policeman in Biskopsgarden, another suburb of the city, was shot dead. A few days after that a man was murdered in a barber’s shop in Frolunda, yet another suburb. To add to this litany of recent criminal violence, two young children were lucky to survive last week after bei