Yep, I'm a Swede born here, having lived here for 31 years. While growing up, I bought all the indoctrination the state fed me about how this country was the best in the world thanks to socialism, how backwards everyone else was and especially what a menace the USA was to the world. As I've grown older, it's dawned on me that this picture isn't true at all, Sweden is missing so much that the USA has, the propaganda you're fed here is fabricated information, something this state has become so good at. They produce reports on everything to make their policies to appear good, but when it's critically reviewed, it really doesn't hold up. Surprisingly, this distorted picture seems to sell internationally too, many people mistakenly think the Swedish model is a great success when it's really a horrible failure - behind the numbers and everything they present, you get a completely different picture if you talk to the people here that are supposed to lead such wonderful lives according to these numbers.
I'm happy to talk about life here, in fact I do feel like venting a bit. Over here if you talk bad about the system, it won't be long before some social democrat appears and chastises you for being an enemy of the state. This bullying attitude by the socialists makes criticism hard, can be nice to have people to talk to that realizes how things really are.
