I got an e-mail praising something I wrote, from SWEDEN of all places. I
replied with the following:
“Thank you, ——. May I say, on behalf of all American conservatives, how
disappointed I am at the failure of Sweden to implode under the burden of
her welfare-state spending… as we have been predicting for 40 years….
Very best wishes, JD.”
My correspondent (who, to make things even more staggering, is a
journalist over there) responded as follows:
“Well Derb, Keep ‘hoping.’ I know that in some twisted way I do. The shock
of implosion is perhaps the only way that the nannied (is that a word?)
people of Sweden could wake up from their reliance on the welfare state.
You have no idea how difficult it can be to be a conservative in this
country…”
Well, I have some idea. But how refreshing to know that little green
shoots of conservatism are pushing up through the asphalt even in Uppsala
and Göteborg.