Daily show socialist sweden

The Daily Show clip (after the jump) about life in Sweden behind the velvet curtain of socialism has been making the rounds.

As Obama tries to rein in Wall Street and raise taxes on the wealthy, critics say he is trying to turn America into Sweden.

As Obama tries to rein in Wall Street and raise taxes on the wealthy, critics say he is trying to turn America into Sweden.

The Daily Show goes to Sweden, to investigate how on earth people can live in a socialist state.

Jaboukie Young-White talks to young people and Senator Bernie Sanders to find out why socialism isn't the taboo it once was.

A May 1st parade in 2012.

In this episode, Jon sends one of his reporters to Stockholm to try and make someone here apologize for inflicting that horrible social democracy on the US.

It's not all that funny, and it's not all that informative. From it, I learned two things, exactly: That the Swedes make terrible music videos, and that they are really ridiculously good-looking. But what does the video leave out?

In fact (cheer up, Fox News!) nobody wants us to be Sweden.

Not Obama.

"And that's freaking a lot of people out." To figure out why, The Daily Show sent senior youth correspondent Jaboukie Young-White out into.

Not liberals bloggers. Not even the Swedish people, themselves. That's why in the 2006 election they delivered the Social Democratic Party its worst result since 1921, and a more conservative coalition has swept into power, proposing a wide range of tax cuts which have the potential to erode the country's unemployment benefits and other social services.

On the flip side, Sweden does rank pretty high -- above the United States, at least -- on the Human Development Index and international education comparisons.

So while I don't like the Daily Show video, it's not nearly as objectionable as the Fox News boys who not only created their own "Let's become Sweden" s