The movements are too steep

For transparency and my own agenda, I strongly dislike our previous government, the Social Democrats with the support of the Green Party and the tacit acceptance of the Left Party, who ruled Sweden for 8 years. At the last election, I voted for the current government. I deeply dislike socialism, communism and wokeism.

There is an invisible pendulum that swings back and forth and if you are lucky you are in the "zero position" of the pendulum when you are in the hot spot. For example, I went to primary school in a municipal Swedish school during the 1980s when the pendulum was in the "zero position". During this decade, the Swedish school system was absolutely top-notch.

We had competent, qualified teachers who led the school classes with discipline and authority without hitting the children like the teachers did when my parents were in school. All parents received a letter from the Swedish National Agency for Education with instructions on which school and what time their child was expected to be present. The best part was that it was even difficult to find a bad or neglected school, whether in the big cities or in the countryside at that time.

In 1992, the independent school reform was introduced and the Swedish school system was fundamentally changed, and the pendulum began to swing. Today, it is up to each individual parent to ensure that their offspring ends up in the absolute best school. If you have a parent who doesn't care, you are guaranteed to end up in some of the neglected municipal schools.

The difference between a good school and a bad school is like night and day, even if it's only a 15-minute walk between them. Furthermore, discipline has long been gone and there are no longer any demands placed on the students. The pendulum has swung far too far to the left.

Since Mr. Elon Musk bought X, it feels like the pendulum has started to swing back and common sense is prioritized over having the "right" values. The process accelerated with the outcome of the US presidential election last fall.

I myself am incredibly grateful and really hope that everything related to woke is erased forever. However, I fear that the pendulum will swing far too far the other way, just as it did during the woke era. Imagine if we could limit the pendulum movements so we could avoid the absolute worst madness.

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