“Now, I’m liberal, but to a degree, I want ev’rybody to be free, BUT…” - and it’s a big but, a very big BUTT

“Now, I’m liberal, but to a degree

I want ev’rybody to be free

But if you think that I’ll let Barry Goldwater

Move in next door and marry my daughter

You must think I’m crazy!

I wouldn’t let him do it for all the farms in Cuba”  

(Bob Dylan : I Shall Be Free No. 10) 

It has been a while since I was last here, even a longer while still since Jesus ascended from this vale of tears and in the intervening years things have changed so rapidly. Sometimes, changes can be scary. Solomon the wise who had so many wives famously said that there’s nothing new under the sun , enough to get you thinking, one, two, three, has there ever been a first without a second? First world, second world, third world, or as one of the Naipauls put it, “turd world” and like Ozymandias, the USA’s greatest wannabe Emperor at his derogatory best, onward Christian soldiers,  ( https://www.google.com/search?q=onward+Christian+soldiers&) 

grab ‘em by the pussy, and not in jest said about what he deems to be the unworthy made by the Almighty : “garbage",  eating cats and dogs, other peoples’ beloved pets,  people from ”Shithole countries"  - at least he did not give any Norman Mailer titles, such as  “Cannibals and Christians “ ( https://www.google.com/search?q=Norman+Mailer+%3A+Cannibals+and+Christians&

leaving the likes of Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder wondering 

“Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony

Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why don't we?”

First world war, second world war and unlike before, world war number three that could most likely take all of humanity to where some of us would least like to be in fulfilment of the prayer, thy will done, thy kingdom come, exactly what you have folks like Donald J. Trump and Pete Hegseth, his minister of war gloating and boasting about, that they are going to send all their enemies to “kingdom come” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0HlkxBxEJ4&list=WL&index=6

And then possibly, stage 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5LLM8w1rdM&list=WL&index=4

Consider:  It was x years ago that one Harold Macmillan was pouting and spouting hot and cold that there was “ a  wind of change blowing over Africa”  ( https://www.google.com/search?q=Harold+Macmillan+%3A++a++wind+of+change+blowing+over+Africa+&n) 

 - fast forward to post-Emma Lazarus America and to your antisemitic and Islamiphobic horror say it ain’t true  when you read “We the People Never Voted for Mass Islamic Immigration” ; https://www.frontpagemag.com/we-the-people-never-voted-for-mass-islamic-immigration/

But that too has its antecedents: Divine Racism : A philosophical and theological analysis ( https://www.google.com/search?q=Divine+Racism+%3A+A+philosophical+and+theological+analysis&nu

Not for the fainthearted : 

William R. Jones : Towards a definition of Divine Racism ( https://www.google.com/search?q=William+R.+Jones+%3A+Towards+a+definition+of+Divine+Racism+&

White Power ? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRok2LCTask

Cross the Atlantic to  over here the past decade and incrementally so, an anti immigration Fortress Europe : https://www.google.com/search?q=Anti-immigration+Fortress+Europe&num=10

Cross the Atlantic the way the crow flies,  arrive at Arlanda  Airport and from there for some sightseeing you may sally over to our monumental riksdag ( https://www.google.com/search?q=Swedish+Parliament&num) and if you’re lucky may even engage in a one to one tête-à-tête with everybody’s Jimmie Åkesson ( https://www.google.com/search?q=Jimmie+%C3%85kesson&num=) fresh from Jerusalem where he was one of the guests of honour at an antisemitic gettogether being held there with Jimmie  guaranteed to be howling about the growing antisemitic Muslim threat that ‘s about to completely eradicate any peace and quiet that the Almighty has previously promised God’s Chosen people and the people of Moder Svea.   

At this point you are entitled - and free to enquire, poetically, metaphorically if there's any difference between Ulf Kristerson’s Sweden, in Conservative party terms often fondly  referred to as “Little America “  with almost the same economic potential as Delaware) to enquire if there's any qualitative difference between  our Sweden  and what Malcolm X once referred to as the United Snakes - long before the whole contraption evolved to the mojo wannabe Emperor Trump’s mono MAGA mania 

Sure, Sweden was no slave trader,  only very briefly had a colony, Saint Barthélemy ( https://www.google.com/search?q=Swedish+colony+%3A+Saint+Barth%C3%A9lemy& ) 

had no dreams of Empire, and about Simona Mohamsson ( https://www.google.com/search?q=Simona+Mohamsson&

you are also free to ask, like Shakeapeare’s Juliet, 

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;” 

( To be continued)