The threats forced Gustav to resign

Already during high school, he sat in the municipal council and the education board in Hedemora, he was elected to the municipal council and as a 20-year-old was appointed opposition council in the small municipality in southern Dalarna.

He was ambitious and wanted to pursue concrete politics, and he thought about the wolf hunt, refugee policy and LGBT issues. And it wasn't long before the harassment, hatred and threats began to emerge.

- There were some so-called controversial questions that I had opinions about. As a young liberal they were given, but they stirred up the feelings of some other people, says Gustav Ericsson.

Some of the harassment he realized came from local residents. But many threats, he thinks, were sent from other parts of Sweden.

- The topics are not so specific to the municipality, they quickly sniff up these questions and start sending their tweets and hateful comments and obviously also threats.

For two years he cured. In the clip above, he tells about the threats and harassment and what it was that finally left him in his assignment.

Today Gustav Ericsson has moved on in life. He has left the moderates and party politics and writes, among other things, a chronicler in Dalarna's newspapers. This summer, he worked as a political editor at Västmanland County newspaper

- I don't feel like I've lost. On the contrary. Now I can breathe and feel good and continue to push my questions in other ways.

How long ago were you talking about burning issues with someone who doesn't like you? Going to the site Sweden meets and taking the opportunity to meet - eye to eye - with someone who thinks differently than you.