Swedish election 2010

[Insula Dei]

Sweden seems to have done very well with having the Social Democrats in power for what? 70 out of the last 80 years?? and every time the "bourgeois parties" have governed all it has led to has been chaos and soaring deficits.

That statement is utterly ridiculous and idiotic.

Yeah, obviously Sweden has been completely ruined by Social Democratic rule. Every day you hear those items on the news about mobs gone crazy looting Stockholm's inner city.

Come on. Scandinavia is practically an advert for Social Democracy.

[Insula Dei]

Too bad I never suggested that. The idea that the Swedish right in government has brought chaos and deficits is utterly ridiculous and idiotic.

Let's take a trip down memory lane. The two times the rightwing parties have governed in Sweden were 1976-1982 - total flop - governments collapsing over and over, high inflation, soaring deficits, recession. Then Swedes came to their senses and brought back the SD in 1982 and then all was well again. Then in 1991-1994, people decided to experiment with the right again under Carl Bildt - again chaotic government, soaring inflation, deficits, recession etc... and Bildt was crushed in 1994 when he ran for re-election.

And under Reinfeldt? Certainly he turned it into a Scandinavian Greece, no?

Wow, you could at least have tried to attack his arguments and pretend Bildt & Co. were actually good leaders, but nooooo..... let's come up with our master card: Reinfeldt.
You basically admit the point  DL made in the first place and you made fun of: that Swedish centre-right governments have hardly been large succeses.

[Insula Dei]

BTW, I'd like to apologize for my overtly hackish and partisan comments earlier on in this thread.
I got carried away a bit I'm afraid.

[Insula Dei]

So the Socialdemocrats stand a good chance of remaining the largest party? That'd make this election slightly less annoying in my book.

Oh, and I'm sorry to be the bringer of bad news but in my (long) experience with them the far right has never underpolled just slightly; they tend to underpoll a lot. Whose voters are they stealing anyway? They could wind up seriously hurting both the more rightwing bourgeois parties and the socialdemocrats (disaffected working class voters are quite open to far right populism).