another random non-artsy post from me - guess this thread is turning into my personal blog
Swedish elections are over and disappointingly the major winners (not as in winning the majority but for the largest increase in votes, doubling their results from the last election) is the "Swedish Democrats" party which would more aptly be called the Swedish Closet Racists party... I don't know who votes for them but obviously a lot of people do. They're now Sweden's third largest party. I find it scary and it feels like we're moving back towards the "general racism" of the 30'ies. But what can be done to turn it around?
It should be noted that the party has a "zero tolerance" policy on racism and because of it, member after member has had to leave because media has exposed them as racists... (E.g they post hateful messages anonymously online.) In spite of multiple such revelations leading up to the elections and some of the "top names" having to go, people still vote for them. I just don't get it.
Up until now I guess I've mostly laughed at them. There's a video compilation on youtube with SD politicians answering questions from media, and such. One gets asked what Swedish culture IS exactly. There's a long silence and then he says "uh, like ancient remains and such". Because yeah, we all know immigration threatens all those old things... Right. Another claims that 400,000 Euro becomes "40 thousand billion" SEK. In reality it becomes 4 milllion SEK. Just a few zeros off, right? Another claims she doesn't really know what her party's politics are because she's only been an elected representative for 3 years now... *sigh*
How can people vote for these dimwits!?