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| Panic Grips Swedish Establishment Facing an Election Beating |
| 2018-09-08 |
| [Bloomberg - bias alert] The birthplace of Ikea flat packs and Volvo cars is starting to look just as vulnerable to the populist movement as Italy, Hungary and the U.S. The HORROR! A bastion of welfare and equality, Sweden faces an election on Sunday that could be its most tumultuous in a century. As in other democracies across the world, the establishment is being challenged on multiple fronts. The long-dominant Social Democrats are headed for their worst result since general voting started in 1921. The biggest opposition party, the conservative Moderates, may see its backing cut to about half the electoral support it enjoyed at the start of this decade For a country that prides itself on stability and is seen as a model for social democracy across the world, the development is hard to grasp. But voters are now flocking to a party that was born of Sweden's neo-Nazi, white supremacist movement. Slur done, how about acknowledging they hate the EU and unfettered immigrant colonists? For good reason The Sweden Democrats, whose stated goal is to rip their country out of the European Union, could win about 20 percent of the vote on Sept. 9. Fifteen years ago they weren't even big enough to make it into the parliament. Meanwhile, the other end of the political spectrum is also poised to do well, with the former communist Left Party set to win almost 10 percent. The vote could bring to an end the dominance of Sweden's two main political blocs, which have defended centrist policies for the past century. The uncertainty has spooked investors, helping to weaken the krona to levels not seen since the global financial crisis. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #5 Some nasty propaganda within that article. The largest party named "Social Democrats" is not a centrist party -- they put Sweden on an accelerated path to socialism that was close to destroying the economy by the 70s. There was a massive brain drain of businessmen and ambitious young people to the rest of Western Europe in the 60s and 70s. By the 80s the Social Democrats were finally voted out of power and the actual "centrist" political parties (included such idiotically named as the "Moderates") worked to somewhat undo the damage but more importantly to deviate from the path to total socialism. When Sweden joined the EU it actually helped the country to get rid of a large amount of socialist crap -- because the EU was *relatively* more free. As for the "Left Party" these are unrepentant marxists who have pretty much always had close to 10 percent of the votes, and always cooperated with the Socialist Democrats, but felt they needed a change of named from "Communist Party" when the Soviet Union imploded. |
| Posted by: si vis pacem, para bellum 2018-09-08 15:12 |
| #4 Forgot to italicize quote. |
| Posted by: charger 2018-09-08 13:06 |
| #3 For a country that prides itself on stability and is seen as a model for social democracy across the world, the development is hard to grasp. But voters are now flocking to a party that was born of Sweden's neo-Nazi, white supremacist movement. They keep doing this, and people will eventually vote for real Nazis on the assumption that they are the only ones willing to do something about Islamic immivasion. |
| Posted by: charger 2018-09-08 13:06 |
| #2 Start preparing Russian Collision evidence. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-08 10:43 |
| #1 Godwin's law. |
| Posted by: Oscar Crusorong4654 2018-09-08 09:40 |