Slovakia, the Anti-Sweden?

[Harry Bosch]

Apparently, to all but the content deaf, it means "a couple of other rightwing nutters" threaten to become most supported party in Sweden. In contrast to your hand-waving, FP Journal sees the rise as serious and threatening:

there has been a defining theme of the European political leadership’s response to the migrant crisis currently facing the continent, it is this: panic. With a record 107,500 migrants crossing EU borders last month alone, EU politicians have struggled to come up with a unified response, and Europe’s political class is coming to realize the immense risk that the immigration question poses to their hold on power. A poll released Thursday is the latest data point in this move away from establishment politics: Sweden’s anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats are now the country’s largest party.

According to a poll carried out by YouGov, the Sweden Democrats, a party with its roots in the country’s neo-Nazi movement, now has the support of 25.2 percent of Swedes. Two other parties that spent the 20th and 21st centuries basically trading power with one another — the Moderates and the Social Democrats — took home 21.0 percent and 23.4 percent, respectively. The Social Democrats currently hold power in a minority coalition government.

In five short years, it seems what started as 'a few right-wing nutters' are now a substantial and still growing block of those fed up with immigration in Sweden. Oh dear.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/2...migrant-right-wing-party-as-countrys-largest/

And YOU are RIGHT in there with them! A lot of Sweden's problems have to do with not enough sunlight and too close an association with the U.S. which incidentally leads to a different kind of lack of sunlight. The right kind of actions in the conflict areas...aid not weapons might make a lot of difference. I feel we just keep the stir going with our weapons marketing world wide. You need to look back to the root cause of this problem and stop throwing stones at minor or non players in the Middle East War Game.

You don't know Sweden too well if you think that they are "too close an association with the US".

 

[Loren Pechtel]

You don't know Sweden too well if you think that they are "too close an association with the US".

He sees anything short of cold war as being too close to the US.

 

[dystopian]

Apparently, to all but the content deaf, it means "a couple of other rightwing nutters" threaten to become most supported party in Sweden.

At the end of the article, the author expresses a sentiment that suggests it's perfectly okay for Swedes who don't like immigration to buy guns and "overthrow the mighty". That's as "nutter" as it gets.

In contrast to your hand-waving, FP Journal sees the rise as serious and threatening:

there has been a defining theme of the European political leadership’s response to the migrant crisis currently facing the continent, it is this: panic. With a record 107,500 migrants crossing EU borders last month alone, EU politicians have struggled to come up with a unified response, and Europe’s political class is coming to realize the immense risk that the immigration question poses to their hold on power. A poll released Thursday is the latest data point in this move away from establishment politics: Sweden’s anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats are now the country’s largest party.

According to a poll carried out by YouGov, the Sweden Democrats, a party with its roots in the country’s neo-Nazi movement, now has the support of 25.2 percent of Swedes. Two other parties that spent the 20th and 21st centuries basically trading power with one another — the Moderates and the Social Democrats — took home 21.0 percent and 23.4 percent, respectively. The Social Democrats currently hold power in a minority coalition government.

In five short years, it seems what started as 'a few right-wing nutters' are now a substantial and still growing block of those fed up with immigration in Sweden. Oh dear.

And do the people who support this party also support the buying of guns and "overthrowing the mighty" with them? Somehow I doubt it. Besides, 25.2%; even if those numbers are accurate (and they didn't get anywhere near that in the last election in 2014), and even all of them agree 100% with the hardline of the right wing; they still represents a minority. And of course, still a bunch of nutters. Nutters don't stop being nutters just because there's a lot of them.

Finally, the number of people who are actually members of the Sweden Democrats is pretty tiny compared to other parties. Lots of people in European countries vote on these sort of protest parties when they're fed up with the mainstream parties for one reason or another... but that doesn't mean they actually agree with these parties in any meaningful way. It's much more useful to look at the number of people who care enough to become members of a party; since those are the people who will have a more solid commitment to a party's ideals. The Sweden Democrats only have 10,000 members; compared to more than 103,000 for the Swedish Social Democratic Party; who are decidedly NOT right wing.

 

[Jokodo]

Of related interest, why the bloom is off the immigration/refugee rose in Sweden.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6379/ikea-murders-sweden

Despite right-wing fearmongers inside and outside Europe trying to sell their tale of Sweden practically descending into civil war to Americans gullible enough to take their word for it without a fact check, the reality is that the murder rate in sweden is still half that of, say Slovakia, trend stable. Also, lower than that of any US state, and about 1/7 of the US national rate.

 

[untermensche]

"Left-wing policies have led to illegal immigrants flooding Europe, threatening European countries with an unprecedented social, economic, cultural and security conflict," said a statement last week from the ruling conservative, nationalist party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

This is funny. Claiming the problem is due to left-wing policies that is.

These immigrants are fleeing violence and deprivation supported by right-wing regimes and thinkers, not the left.