Stephan:   Here is some very good news... for Sweden. I find it very interesting that American media so rarely touches on the fact that the leading democracies in the world, with the happiest, healthiest, best educated, and most affluent general population are the Nordic countries not the United States.  In fact the United States is no longer even competitive. The other thing I find interesting as we prepare to have an election in three months is the utter lack of discussion about why these Nordic nations are able to create a functioning healthy democratic society and we in the U.S. cannot. Are Americans stupider, less capable, or is the problem that while those Scandinavian countries make wellbeing a priority all we care about in the U.S. is profit for the few. We are a neo-Feudal society, but we refuse to tell ourselves that truth.