this is what happens when the parties refuse to bring up issues which are on many minds. immigration is important to start dealing with properly. integration as well, but this dumbfounded fear of being called racist puts so many parties at a wall where they refuse to bring it up. i detest the sweden democrats but fuck me is it extremely easy to gain votes from them. literally be the Social Democrats or any other party, bring up solutions or something to immigration & integration and you have a much bigger voting base.
This is ignoring that the center-right parties have still grown (Alliansen + SD), and if they do decide to work with SD to build a government then the immigration-critical voice will quite nicely outweigh the pro-immigration movements of the last election. There's a couple of possible turnouts, none of which we will really know until at least next week.
Kingmaker position makes parties do odd things to be in power.
I adress that in my edit. They also likely won't build government with the Social Democrats or The Left Party, so my theory is they become independent or create a new block with MP.
If they do that'll be the last we see of them come the next election, because voters will see switching block-sides as a bigger abandonment & violation of voter trust than DÖ.
As I mentioned somewhere, the childish acting of the other parties to refuse to do anything at all with SD, including petty shit like not shaking their hands at work, not talking to them, complete ignorance of their existence - it has made SD the "only true opposition" party in the eyes of the people, and they've heavily capitalized on that, resulting in a huge vote boost.
I see it more likely that the old parties continue their fingers-in-ears bullshit than start working with SD even though they're the third largest party now.
S and M might even "cross boundaries" of their respective blocs to form a government, in a historical move just for the petty sake of keeping SD out of it, which will unsurprisingly boost SD further in the next elections.
If I was Swedish, I'm not sure if I would have voted for SD since they feel too right wing for me - but I can totally see why SD has become so popular and wish them luck on their endeavors.
yes i too wish that the party with its root in nazi ideology and still spew it discreetly the best of luck.
Don't forget that the Left Party (the commies) also grew quite a lot. It's a loss for everyone normal in Sweden.
It’s looking good jobs for 6 minor parties (including some right-wing parties sadly for my biases) of gaining seats from Social Democrats, Moderate and Green Parties.
https://www.svd.se/ovisst-politiskt-lage-efter-valet
SD invited M and KD to a meeting.
Not L & C, then. So SD is dead-set on their dream-team. I know KD is fairly more open for negotiation, it could all fall on how M wants to approach this.
We always hear about far right parties in the west like UKIP, AFD, FN surging and how people get excited, but they always hit their cap and do fuck all from a certain point. Parties like these are simply far too vile for the majority to vote in most of the time, unless the country is already super right wing like the US.
The only real exceptions I can think of is Austria and Italy, the former which has historically had a pretty powerful far right movement iirc and Italy just seems to be really weird politically and I can't really comment.
It is a bit hard to ignore at least how extremist views are definitely becoming more vocal and their potential to actually even get the ones that are on the verge of breaking away from moderate views. May be my worldview bias of already living in a right-leaning country as well with a president with a penchant for violence and authoritarianism, and is usually categorized in the same essence as Trump.
But yeah Trump winning and Leave being the decided vote 2 years ago were two large warning signs. So it's kind uneasy to hear today about how a far-right presidential candidate in Brazil is gaining a lot of votes, and surviving a stabbing will likely increase his chances from sympathy votes and Sweden's currently established political group being mostly ineffective and apathetic, and their far-right groups gaining a surge of supporters more than usually expected.
Combine those with how evident Russia actually does interfere with these kind of things around the world, it's kind of difficult to not at least feel a bit uneasy and weary.
I genuinely hope you're right though and that the majority of people will always still consider these extreme groups and views as not the actual proper way to fix current issues. My country already chose the extreme option but I hope no one else does.
SD wouldn't be as bad as they are now if they weren't so backwards on stuff like women's issues and LGBT stuff. They want to rollback a lot of what makes Sweden such a progressive country.
The far right are certainly frighteningly growing in popularity, but the more competent ones don't establish their own party, they hijack the main stream moderate right wing one.
The US currently has a white house with white nationalists in it and a president who defends nazis, attacks the free press, praises dictators and wants to build a wall across the Mexican border to keep out "rapists". Even 20 years ago these people would absolutely horrify the VAST majority of Americans, these guys would have gotten nowhere fast if they decided to create their own far right party in the 90s. Instead they consumed GOP, a party with a long history of moderate presidents. Then they started to shift the overton window extremely to the right, to the point people like Trump are seen as normal enough to be elected, while someone like Hillary is seen as very to the left, despite being pretty right wing to the rest of the western world.
Right now our tories are at the very same risk, Brexit has given the far right wing a ton of political capital and they are using it. No deal Brexit is a very real risk and something no moderate party would dare suggest in a normal western country. David Cameron despised these sort of people and was pro EU, he was in power just 2 years ago.
The far right are far more scary like this. By the time people start to realize that old school conservative party is becoming kinda fascist, it's usually too late.
The left-wing parties need to stop fucking around, especially Socialdemokraterna, and propose policies that move away from the neoliberal establishment.
That is a good point regarding the nature of the parties themselves. It it at least relatively good the rest of the world doesn't follow the US's two-party mentality which makes it harder to do party hijacks.
I do hope the UK won't fall into those risks. When Macron won in France I wanted to consider at least a glimmer of sanity and hope in the world and at least a sign that the far-right aren't just overtaking everything with a steamroll. I hope the UK can settle Brexit properly, the US votes in Democrats to get the house control away from the GOP in November, and hopefully the rest of world can at least make a stand against extremist views and not repeat an awful part of history that happened decades ago.
At the very least, Sverigedemokraterna haven't grown quite as much as I would have expected.
This is what the mainstream left should really be doing, yes. Mainstream parties portraying immigration as a big issue really only benefits radical-right nativist parties for which anti-immigration views are the main selling point. Social-democratic/generally left-wing parties have zero to gain from turning more right-wing on immigration.The left should be setting the agenda and getting elections to mainly be about topics that the left does well on. Social-democratic parties also really need to embrace traditional Social-democratic policy again, like Keynesian economics, and move away from the Third Way.
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