| General election thoughts! |
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| Contributed by Livgivare Sweden | ||
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Hi again after a long while away! I've been going around in Scandinavia a bit, and then the general election came up. I think it must have been the most boring election in my relatively short life. so much talk about jobs and so little feeling in the general public that this talk would do anything at all. This is my long analysis of the election and some small connections to the neighbouring countries that Sweden has got. Here in Sweden amazingly we still get a grip of about 80% of the people actually voting. I guess that comes to the fact that all the three elections are at the same time. Both County, State and Governmental elections are at the same day. This might make it more fuzzy but it also shows that more people do care about the County elections. In Norway were they do not have the same system and were the County and Governmental elections are separated there is about 80% for Governmental and I guess around 50% or 40% in the county elections. "What I've heard is that about only up to 40% of the American people vote and that is really bad. I even would criticize how "democratical" the system and elections can be with that low number of voting people. Still I agree that there is too little people in the Western world do care about elections. I mean there is about 30% to 40% who actually care to vote in the European Union elections and that is not good either. EU is the organ that more and more takes care of the laws and the politics of the European countries and I would like to see more interest from the regular people. I guess that there need to be more information to the people about EU and the business they do. I didn't grow up in a home actually in love with voting, but there always was the feeling that it was more important to go and vote then actually what you vote for. So I have been voting all the elections and one referendum that I have had the time and energy to vote in. I even vote in the EU election. The sad fact is that many people in Sweden (mostly the southern part of Sweden called Skåne and Blekinge) voted for a semi-Nazi party called the Swedish Democrats. They try so hard to be like a Liberal alternative but they always have this feeling about themselves that they are racists and even some of them are neo-Nazis and that is even more killing my inner soul. I mean we shall be open to new people and try to get ourselves integrated and they integrated in our world. Not segregate them and us into two groups that not know anything about the other. but I guess that this votes come from people really, really, really angry with the situation and that are not seeing any progress in the world around them. And I become so angry about this. Of cause they have the right to vote, so I blame the political parties that is not like this for not giving better answers on peoples question and to show that another world is possible and that we can live in peace. I am travelling to Norway at least 3 times a year due to the fact that I have a boyfriend there close to Oslo. and the sad fact is that they have even got a worse problem, they have got a more subtle political party then the Swedish Democrats called the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet) and this one is always toning down the rassistic part of their political ideas. And last time I watch the TV in Norway I guess one third of Norways population wanted to vote for them. I so feel sorry for this and if I could I would get a double citizen-passport and vote there too. But sadly I guess that is not an option. Denmark has got somewhere between Sweden and Norway's situation and I guess Finland is pretty much the same as Sweden. Wow. I hope that I have not bored you to death with this analysis about Scandinavian politics. Last thing I will tell you about is that Sweden had have about 80 years of the same political party leading they are the Social Democrats and they surely thought that they had everything going for them. But I guess that it is healthy for a country to change govern-party (parties) a bit more often. Then the debate will not fade and people might be more into the alternatives. " This text was part of an e-mail I sent to someone who lives in USA. So I hope that it don't feel to long for you to read. Only registered users can write comments.
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