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The population of Sweden is 10 million vs 325 million for the US. The issues faced by each country are vastly different in scale and policies which work at one scale will not necessarily work at the other. In this context we should be comparing the policies of Sweden to the policies of New York (but even that doesn't really work because of the vastly more diverse population of NY).

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I totally accept the argument that it's not the same thing to run a country of 10 milion versus 325 million, but why does demographics matter so much?

A lot of the differences between Sweden and the US comes down to things like whether health care should be a human right etc. Do you think people are less inclined to want "free" health care if they live in a community that's ethnically mixed? I don't buy it.

There are major differences between American culture and Scandavian - the Law of Jante, for example [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

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