lol Biased much?
I'm casting my vote for AfS. SD is, as Kasselstrand said, tired and senile. At this point it makes no difference whether SD gets 25 or 35 %. But it would make a difference if we got another, more radical anti-immigration party in the parliament, one that is willing to actually rock the boat to get what they want.
Elf wrote:Watched the press conference announcing the new far-right party, Alternative for Sweden, who consists of the former SD youth group and their allies who were excluded from the party in 2015 on grounds of ideological deviance/ethno-nationalism etc. And wow. I didn't have a lot of confidence in these people to begin with, but I'd at least think that when you'd call to a press conference, you'd have something to think. Instead it was a magnificent circle-jerk with
video clips with bombastic music to various stock picks combined with Kasselstrand holding a speech about how much he has 'sacrificed' for his beliefs... cool story bro...
Name one election campaign film that
isn't bombastic (or otherwise sentimental) music to various stock images and emotional claptrap. You don't watch campaign films to learn about concrete policy proposals. To do that you need to read, which of course is to much of an exertion for the average voter. But then again, the average voter doesn't usually vote with his brain, but with his heart. That's why we have things like campaign films, logotypes, flags, etc.
Elf wrote:No real political proposals.
Actually, they have plenty:
-Scrap the Immigration Agency and set up a Repatriation Agency instead.
-Scrap the Employment Service and all subsidized make-work jobs.
-Demand that municipalities clean up their budgets before getting the municipal subsidies (
Kommunala utjämningssystemet, don't know if there's a good english translation of that). Personally, I would prefer to scrap the system altogether.
-No welfare for non-citizens.
-Scrap the tax deduction on interest payments and lower capital taxes.
-Scrap press support.
-Support net neutrality and make it illegal for banks, social media companies, etc. to discriminate against people because of political opinions.
-Scrap foreign aid.
-Scrap integration policy, as you mentioned.
-Protectionist measures against meat imports that do not conform to Swedish animal welfare standards. (This is just common fucking sense. You can have all the animal welfare laws you want, but if you allow foreign animal products to flood in freely it will be completely and utterly fang-less.)
-Swexit, obviously.
-Establish a constitutional supreme court.
-Reintroduce "
Tjänstemannaansvar" (don't know how to translate that).
-Remove the ability of politicians to set their own salaries.
-Slash public funding of political parties and make it easier to make donations instead.
-Make parliament commitee meatings public.
-Introduce a real preferential vote system for individual candidates and include all on a single ballot instead of the current system where each party must make and distribute it's own ballot papers.
-Reduce the number of MPs from 349 to 149.
-Introduce real life sentences and a "three strokes" principle, and remove the "discount" on repeated offences.
-Remove politically appointed lay judges (
nämndemän) from the courts.
-Improve health care by lifting administrative tasks off of physicians and nurses and employing a separate category of employees for that, and also reintroducing less-educated nurse assistants to take care of simpler tasks. Scrap the county councils and move health care to the state. No free health care for non-citizens and certainly not for illegal immigrants.
-Reintroduce conscription and give more money to the military (and unlike the other parties, since they want to stop wasting money on importing the third world to Sweden, they would actually have the funding for it).
-A pragmatic, non-warmongering policy with regard to Russia.
-Order and discipline in school and no "gender theory" or other such political fluff.
Elf wrote:Well, except that they oppose integration, which is just another way of saying that you don't want immigrants to mix with native Swedes.
SD opposes integration too if I'm not mistaken. Otherwise they have become even more watered down than I thought. Integration is the idea that Swedes and immigrants should "meet halfway" as opposed to the immigrants adapting to us or GTFO. We of course have no obligation to move one inch to accomodate immigrants.
Elf wrote:Nope, this ain't no political revolution. They want flat taxes. That's interesting, since SD has essentially become centre-right economically, one would think that these guys would move to a fiscally centre-left position, like the FN in France etc. But nope. Their wannabe-brattiness might stop them from being relevant.
We have eight social democratic parties in our parliament (arguably seven social democratic parties and one communist party). A right-wing party is exactly what we need.
Elf wrote:There probably is a segment of the population who would support a Swedish Front National and could give such a movement a few seats... but these guys... no...
We'll see who laughs last
I predict 3-6 %.
According to polls, the majority of SD supporters would like to see another anti-immigration party, so I would think that there is a sizeable segment who could potentially switch to AfS.
I'm looking forward to see debates between AfS and the Feminist party