So, how bad will it be?

[frualeydis]

So, after the people have cast their votes we'll see:

* If it's true as the liberal-conservative parties think that not being able to afford medicines, a decent place to live and enough food really cures arthritis and all other diseases. They claim that by reducing the money you get if you're sick from 80% of your wages to 60% (an amount most people can't live on) people will get healthier. I can't see why they hate sick people, but even if they do, why should their children be punished? Inherited sin?

* If it's enough as the leader of the Green Party said; that this means four lost years for environmental issues, or if it will be even worse. The biggest party among the liberals-conservatives don't even have an environmental policy and it is pretty obvious that they don't care. If it can't be valued in money, it's not worth anything.

* How much backlash there will be in the field of gay rights. The Christian Democrats are of course against them and the others, aside from the Liberal party, are not very interested in equality between gay and hetero people either.

* If the Liberal party will get the others in the coalition to agree on giving the police right to tap phones and bug homes of people who are not suspected for any serious crime without a court order. Yep folks, that's the Liberal party.

* If the Christian democrats will be able to make it harder to get an abortion. Last time they got a provision that you had to listen to someone discouraging you from abortion before having one; will they get closer to their goal this time?

* If the Liberal party who wants Sweden to build more nuclear power plants (despite none of the plants built since the 80s in the world being economically viable), or the Center party who want to close them all will win. Or if the government will break up (please, please, please).

* The Liberal party wants to forbid confessional private schools, the Christian Democrats are of course all for it (not muslim schools, but they can't forbid just them.) Who will win?

PS. if you think all of this, or some of it is good, don't tell me now, I'm not in the mood to debate. I'm to angry and sad and deeply worried.
In a couple of months or so I guess it will be better.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/aure_/]

I was saddened to read about general election in Sweden from today's newspaper. I really hope the things you are descriping don't happen. (And I hope the casting of votes in Finland next year won't lead to the same result..)

We can do nothing but hope for the best.

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

I feel certain people wants us back to a Calvanistic lifestyle. All of the Western world are turning right - or so it feels anyway. Neo-Christian and charismatic religious groups are blossoming, as are the racist groupings. And the almighty God is called Money. Bush and co in the USA, nazis in Germany, conservative Christians and right-wing conservatives in Scandinavia.... Bleeeeh!!!

OK, that was today's rant. How much of a difference can a collaboration government make in four years, is my comforting thought.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I don't know how much they can do, but the last time they started dismantling much of the social welfare system and I'm quite sure they're ready to dig in at it this very moment. Some of it will be restored after the next election. But not all, at least it wasn't last time. Becuse there are some market-directed forces in the Social democrats too. It's like whenever we have to take two steps back we're never able to take more than one step forward.

/Eva

[http://users.livejournal.com/aure_/]

That's true. Luckily the alliance (as the liberal-conservative parties call themselves according to Finnish newspaper) seems quite divided concerning some essential political questions. So maybe the damages won't be so crucial.

[therru.livejournal.com]

It's like the election posters for the liberals, the "news from the future" ones: They were horrific. I couldn't understand how anyone could want to vote for them after seeing those, but apparently they did... Tapping phones? And they claim that the left have no respect for people's integrity? And school grades for orderly behaviour? All that is going to do is raise the stress level in schools (and give teachers a reason to come down on kids that speak up).

All we can hope for is that they won't be able to agree on anything...

[armillary.livejournal.com]

Agreed, those posters were just stupid.

[systemgoddess.livejournal.com]

The majority of that ideology applies to life right now in the good ole U.S of A. It's nothing to look forward to either. And we've been grading kids on behavior for decades. Sometimes I think they are more worried about order and control than they are learning.

[amber-laine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that :(

[jkubenka.livejournal.com]

I would just like to point out that "order and control" are necessary when dealing with sheeple, which is what the public school system in USA is designed to spew out.

You need workers for your companies that are smart enough to do what is told to them to do, to clock in and out, respond to bells and whistles in a pavlovian manner, and consume, consume, consume. That being said, you want to discourage free and critical thinking and anything smacking of individuality.

All of this being said, I pulled my daughter out of the public school system because of the "order and control" above learning. Well, that's one of the reasons anyway...

Jennifer Kubenka (in Texas, mostly a lurker on Eva's blog because I love the costuming stuff...)

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear it. I know how you feel. :-(

[(Anonymous)]

we were deeply depressed too at home yesterday. but let's just say, i'm at least very glad i don't live in some of the very southern parts of sweden where SD has a major role in the municipal politics...

let us also hope that the now very "Moderat"-city hall still will respect the result of the referendum. that we WILL get environmental taxes for sity driving. please?

/m

[green-martha.livejournal.com]

I haven't been following the politics in Sweden that much, but this scares me. And it scares me even more as I realize this could be coming right at us too, next year.

[nazgman.livejournal.com]

How much of this is just in peoples heads? Inertia in the system is immense, and things will remain pretty much unchanged on the whole. Of course there will be minor things which will be blown up to gargantuan proportions by the media and the opposition, but how much of this will actually affect people's everyday life?
What happened now is just a rebound from the left swing which swept over Europe during the previous mandate periods. The average guy on the street eventually got fed up with all the empty promises made by the people previously in power, and now went for the empty promises by the guys now in power.
This is what democracy will do to you. Let the masses decide, and you will always have a pretty big (though not majority) part of the masses muttering over the fact that they didn't get their way. If you want political stability get an enlightened dictatorship of other similar means of government. Good oldfashioned monarchy, then you know what you have for the coming generation or two, whether you like it or not.

[therru.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounded comforting.

[nazgman.livejournal.com]

*evil grin*
>:-D

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Could be true. But I still worry about what will happen if my arthritis get worse, because they all seem to be in agreement that giving me less money to live on will cure it.

/Eva

[therru.livejournal.com]

I think that they believe sick people are just indolent, lazy and spoilt, and if they just buck up, everything will be just fine.