Om nya tider och öppna ögon.

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/valet2010/utlandska-medier-fokuserar-pa-sd-1.1173651
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/valet2010/skyhoga-sd-siffror-i-vissa-skolor-1.1174007
http://ops101.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/grattis-sverige/
Sweden has since long been a country with big cultural gaps, which could be viewed as a result of the integration politics carried out a long time by seemingly ever-ruling social democrats. Their message has been embraced by the Swedish people for decades, which seldom has been put to question; the Swedes like the ideas of solidarity and financial safety among other things the Social democrats stand for. But a side-effect of this kind of politics has, at least in their case, been the neglecting of the critical question of how to integrate immigrants with the Swedish people, as a united group of people enjoying these privileges. While the estrangement going on between Swedes and immigrants might not be so visible when speaking of people above the age of, say, 40, the irritation and tension between young people in Sweden have risen. 
  The problem lies with the natural inability for another generation, and especially the politicians, to see these differences, and the misguiding explanation given by media is that the Sweden democrats is a party winning voters with a mere discontent and mistrust for the established politicians.
  That is one of the reasons for the party's big support, of course, but it is not the only one. The other reasons including the above mentioned are issues in desperate need of solutions. Integration is not something that happens automatically, because people are people. There is in 2010 a situation which no longer everyone views as naively as before; no longer a situation in which all is well, as both right- and left-wing politicians have made us to believe it is.
  People are aware of rising criminality amongst groups of young immigrants, and fear, prejudice and hate are results of that problem, for the simple reason of ignorance, of course. The real causes behind this, however, are just the kind of issues politicians in Sweden for so long have looked past.
  The Swedish parties in parliament who are now to form a government, need to finally listen to what a party that has not closed their eyes have to say, instead of being as prejudice as they accuse the Sweden democrats of being; instead of undemocratically and immaturely calling them names and freezing them out. While that might have explanations in stigma and the Swedish custom and attitude, someone has felt that these things increase the gaps between Swedes and immigrants, and that someone is a person who so desperately wants to show this, that he has walked with a straight back and with calm reason through endless thrown tomatoes. That person is Jimmie Åkesson, and Sweden needs to first hear him out, and then decide what to think of him.
  Prejudice can't be fought with prejudice; one needs to listen first, and reflect later. Otherwise the problems causing a party with "racist" views to rise will only be further veiled.