The beginning of world war III, or the most important election in Swedish history.
Next Sunday, the 19th o September, it's the election for the Swedish Parliament (riksdagen).
It is of course as usual an important election, every single one is, but this year it is more important than perhaps ever before.
First of all, to get into the Swedish parliament, you'll need 4.o% of the collected votes, then you get a corresponding amount of the 349 seats in the parliament, i.e. yo get 25.78% of the votes; you get 90 seats (naturally making your opinion more heard). Everyone who is a Swedish citizen can make it to the parliament, ultimately becoming prime minister, and everyone can form a political party, and with that party you can for example have only one question, and you can get a lot of votes, if you play your cards right.
In 1930's Germany, in a time of very bad economy, where there was high unemployment, and a certain group of people who where easy to blame, about the same system led to the following:
World War II, Motherfuckers!
Well, basically it did, but you all know that.
What is happening in Sweden, is that a political party calling themselves the "Swedish Democrats"(or SD) is probably getting a seat, or even two.
But, you say, they sound nice, their name has something with democracy in it, which is a good thing right?
Well democracy is the right path, but SD is not in the least.
Their soul question, that will get them votes, is about the hate and fear of a religious group -and people recognizing that same religion- the number one most easy to blame for everything bad right now. Islam.
They are of course Islamophobes.
It's about terrorism, rape, murder, theft and how they take all the welfare, and well, you probably know everything whoever you are blaming for all that's bad do.
Only thing is, every fact they've put forward, in media debates, in their party platform and just about everywhere else is false.
Manipulated facts.
Muslims aren't overrepresented in the criminal group. They aren't fanatic religious extremists, but they are like ordinary people, and an Enormous (with other immigrants) asset to Sweden.
In fact, only 72% of all immigrants who come to Sweden has to work for the whole thing to be beneficial, compared to 92% of all native Swedes.
SD will bring more and more hate, until Sweden is a country no one seeks refuge in, but a country you seek refuge from. And that, makes me very sad, since I love my country very much.
I of course do not really mean I think this will lead to WW III.
BUT! History has told us bad things happens if you let a Political Party with only hatin' on the agenda is bad fucking news.
But, hopefully they will not get a seat. And I've just wasted half an hour or 45 minutes of my life writing this.
This is their commercial for the election. It scares the shit out of me, that people vote for these fuckers.
You probably grasp the meaning of the video.
I dunno nuthin bout politics, but when I see them Swedish blonde babes, I prolly get the biggest erection in Swedish history!
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It's been quite some debate. The network who was going to send it said no even though they (the channel) and the political party had a deal, which was of course a legally binding, so they sent a censored version of it.
The commercial was to be sent the first time the 6th of September, but this debate (whether or not they are ignorant idiots or not) has been going on for some time. But it's to late, because apparently to many of the Swedish people haven't even finished preschool.
Think of the children, oh please won't someone please think of the children! (runs around in a circle)
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i will inquire about this further and get back to you with another insider's opinion.
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No offense to Sweden but I just can't see Sweden having the gravitas behind them to start anything big enough to approach WWIII. Maybe a couple bloody skirmishes with Finland or something.
Probably didn't seem like a big deal at the time either...
As I said I in no way believe this will lead to WW III. But that doesn't mean it's good to have a xenophobic political party in the parliament.
But like Monkey said, it could actually be worse than it seems.
More might follow.
In 1930 The National Socialist German Workers' Party (the Nazi Party) went from 12 seats to 107 seats in the German reichtag. two years later, they had 230 seats. The year after that Germany was no longer a democracy.
This probably wont happen, since this is the worst case scenario of worst case scenarios.
But, "Those who cannot remember the past is condemned to repeat it".
Probably didn't seem like a big deal at the time either...
not a big deal at the time?? That was the "Powderkeg of Europe!" over there. It'd be like saying North Korea is that big a deal right now. Those nutters!
BTW, Sweden is the worlds most democratic nation in the world. We will lose points due to this. It sucks.
So the election was yesterday. Swedish Democrats, the racist motherfuckers, got 5,7% of the votes. giving them 20 seats, making them the party who holds the balance of power.
The right wing got 172 seats, and the left wing got 157 seats, giving SD 20 seats. No party has majority. Now Swedish continuous prosperity depends on if Miljöpartiet (the environmental party) who is part of the left wing coalition will work with the largest minority, the right wing coalition. But Miljöpartiet will have a lot of demands, because they get a little frisky when talking about nature, to say the least.
Funny thing though, when the leader of Swedish Democrats got his make-up, the leader of the most left-wing party refused to go into make-up at the same time.
Yay! Stand up to racists in live TV when you are a public figure! I didn't vote for him though.
Sounds like democracy has the potential to cause sizable problems.
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And now. Yeah, Democracy is not really the perfect system. I wonder what would be though. It's the closest yet (the closest functioning, now active at least?)
Winston Churchill did say, "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
I have to agree with this. It's not perfect but it's a hell of a lot better than socialism, communism, dictatorships, whatever.
We should start practicing it. It would probably be better than what we are using now.
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Oh wow. That was...holy shit. How has the Swedish public responded to the advertisement?