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RE: The morgenseiten of Katharsisdrill 28 - news and politics
The things that make Scandinavia look enlightened and modern is, I believe, something very old: pragmatism and the tradition for compromise. Probably has been a historic necessity among common people to stick together when faced with wind and mud and snow.
Danish newspapers wrote about the arcane voting tools in the last election too, but didn't press too hard as Sweden not really is considered a democratic danger zone, but the whole thing looks like something from the fifties or even older. They probably haven't had any problems with the system as most people just voted for the social democrats anyway... until now.
You're right, as long as they had a consensus their system was not in danger. But a nurse, policeman, teacher (anyone working for the state) would no doubt be at risk when picking up a SD ballot.
In their current political environment, this is actually quite shocking, and definitely antidemocratic.
Speaking of Sweden, did you catch that the Dalai Lama was there in Malmo? If a politician in Germany says something like what he said here , he or she will be labeled a xenophobe, racist, or worse.
There's a regularity to this kind of dialectics. Trump does not talk to his followers, he talks to the politically correct liberal segment, who in turn answers him. They empower each other while this destructive yin yan turns faster and faster. Left and right has turned into a muddy, totalitarian swamp that hates freedom and tolerance while claiming to defend exactly that.
A shitty time to be a pragmatic moderate.