Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Well trained to be a proper socialist leader


Well, well. Jørn-Inge Frøshaug is just a kid, but he’s plainly been very well trained and seems to be well on the road to being a proper Scandinavian socialist leader. He already views the voters not as his potential employers, whose opinions he should respect and take seriously, but as his potential subjects, who should either fall into line and echo the official ideology or shut up and obey orders. His remark about “complaining” is especially telling: during the recent election campaign, when it was pretty clear for a long time that the socialists, who have been in power for eight years, were headed for defeat, some of them got exasperated enough on occasion to gripe that there were too many complainers out there who just didn’t appreciate everything that the Labor-led coalition had done for them....

....So it goes. How depressing it is that while so many ordinary Norwegian citizens plainly have a very clear picture of what’s going on at these asylum centers – and of what it bodes for the future of their countries – their elected representatives seem not to grasp (or not to want to face the fact) that people who can be so arrogant, demanding, and belligerent even while their asylum applications are being scrutinized are probably not very likely to end up as peaceable, law-abiding, and productive citizens of Norway. Legitimate refugees don’t act this way; conquerors do....