Swedish election 2010

[Franzl]

I was told, from inside sources, that it was either prostitute or child pornography the day before the news broke. But it happened so late that it had no time to become a story (I went home early this morning).

I think the Reinfeldt strategy is brilliant, and Göran Hägglund (kd) attacked the left for their promise to give 12 billion more to welfare pretty effectively.

What "left"? The choice is only between centrist new liberalism or rightwing neoliberalism in any Western capitalist society. I'll say one thing about Sweden, and indeed, the entire Nordic model, at least, they actually pay "living" benefits, which is more than can be said for the UK and even, here, mass welfare dependency is just another consequence of the "cult of neoliberalism". Relatively little reliance on it during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

You're like a broken record...

[Franzl]

I was told, from inside sources, that it was either prostitute or child pornography the day before the news broke. But it happened so late that it had no time to become a story (I went home early this morning).

I think the Reinfeldt strategy is brilliant, and Göran Hägglund (kd) attacked the left for their promise to give 12 billion more to welfare pretty effectively.

What "left"? The choice is only between centrist new liberalism or rightwing neoliberalism in any Western capitalist society. I'll say one thing about Sweden, and indeed, the entire Nordic model, at least, they actually pay "living" benefits, which is more than can be said for the UK and even, here, mass welfare dependency is just another consequence of the "cult of neoliberalism". Relatively little reliance on it during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

You're like a broken record...

It's only the 600th time he's used his token phrase "cult of neoliberalism".

But what are ideologies if not "cults"?

So I may refer to you as a member of the "cult of socialism"?

[Franzl]

well whatever your ideology is....does it really matter? You said that ideologies can all be called "cults".

So how about "cult of christian democracy"?

[Franzl]

well whatever your ideology is....does it really matter? You said that ideologies can all be called "cults".

So how about "cult of christian democracy"?

I tend to restrict the term "cult" to the failed ideological Gods

What qualifies as failed is somewhat subjective, wouldn't you say?