I'm sorry but this posting is nonsense in my opinion. First, I dare to say that nobody here hates as a country - neither concerning Eurovision nor in real life. Sometimes is personal taste, sometimes it's the Swedish kind of over-produced music that some people dislike. In my case I truly hate last years entry because of the cockiness of both Benjamin and the song itself, the Michael Jackson-esque concept (I really REALLY hate MJ), the staging, the music video, Benjamins Voice,... Enough reasons?
And doesn't hate Eurovision, what a silly, useless comment. I'd say that the delegation tried quite hard in the past two years songwise but then (like always) completely failed when it came to staging...
Sweden sent 3 years in a row successful Entries who ended up in the Top10 plus survived outside Eurovision and invented new performance concepts which never existed before and still got more 0s than 12s three years in a row in the poll and you really want to tell me that noone hates sweden? Do you really think Benjamin would receive the same hate if he represented another country? This is totally senseless. Also Im pretty sure the majority loves MJ and still gave him 0.
Meanwhile Macedonia sent successless songs which dont survive outside ESC with bad singers and/or performances like 2013,2014,2015, 2017 and 2018 which arent nearly on the level of an international Competitionand still slay al those polls. This is ridiculous imo and the reason why I was asking why Sweden is so strongly hated (yes, it is a hate).