Three voters from three different generations explain why they have lost faith in the Riksdag.
Örebro, Sweden – Think of the queue at a Swedish polling station. It is usually long, silent, and dutiful.
For decades, voting was not a choice; it was a civic reflex. To be Swedish was to vote.Now, picture the spaces where the queues are gone.
In the concrete courtyards of the “Million Program” suburbs, or the quiet gravel driveways of the rural interior, a new silence is growing. It is the silence of the soffliggare—the “couch sitters.” But they are not lazy.
They are protesting.This shift has a name: demokratiskt utanförskap (democratic exclusion).
It is not apathy; it is an active rejection of a system that many feel has rejected them.
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