People might wonder why Swedish politicians produce these absurd head-in-the-sand articles, but the truth is that Sweden has an extremely conformist political culture.

Recently an artist was imprisoned for 6 months and had some of his artwork destroyed for going against this groupthink: http://www.thelocal.se/20140821/swedish-artist-jailed-for-ra...

There are plenty of groups whose job it is to make sure you lose your job if you don't go along with the orthodoxy : https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/the-rise-of-swedens-far-l...