Cold Climates

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Ha! It would make sense... except for the fact that like all Scandinavian countries Norway has a very high literacy rate and so on...

Maybe it was incase a break-away group was formed?

I'd guess that it's traditional now...

BTW all Scandinavian parties have nice logo's

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They have been recovering recently (up to 30% with an 8% lead over the FrP in the most recent poll I've seen, and they won the recent local elections. But the Christian Democrats seem to have imploded recently), but they could really do with the SV disbanding.
Or the introduction of FPTP which would result in the same thing.
The problem with PR is that it fragments the political landscape, with FPTP the DNA would score about 10% higher.
But they do seem to have (finally) turned the corner and should win next years elections.
But the future looks bleak for both the Christian Democrats and Venstre.

The Swedish conservatives logo is quite ugly, but the rest of the parties all have nice logo's

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Norwegian politics is very unstable at the moment; for about a month last year the SV led in the polls...

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Remember: It would be worse were it not for the fact that the Storting has fixed election dates that can't be changed...
If it didn't the current government would have fallen ages ago...

I hope that after the past 2 years of instability the Norwegian electorate gives both the DNA and H better numbers, but the SV cut into the DNA's numbers and H is part of the current (and extremly unpopular) government...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Maybe when Hagen dies...

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Ah? The old Calvinist work ethic?

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Very interesting! Finnish politics has always confused me... so thanks for clearing most of it up!

BTW do you know where I can find a map of Finnish Regions? I've got results for each of them, but I can't workout where any of them are (except for Helsinki and Lapland)

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I think that Vaasi is in west Finland, Helsinki is easy, as is Lapland, but as Finnish is a non-Indo-European language it gets confusing

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I remember being told that Finnish is distantly related to Hungarian.

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Realpolitik. Thank for you interest! I found this site for you. There is several maps about Finland and lot of other information about our history, society, economy, nature, way of life etc. All in English.

http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/finnmap.html

I also found maps of elections. But that site wasn't run very good. Also in English.

http://kartat.stat.fi/default_en.html

Finnish language is Finno-Ugrian one like are Hungarian,  Esthonian, Sami's language and several small minoritylanguages in central Russia.

Gustaf. Turkish isn't Finno-Ugrian language. It belongs to the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages.

Thanks!!!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's cold up here today... hmm... time to read Das Kapital methinks...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Question: Are those Confederate soldiers in your signature?
And if so how do you justify having a Republican avatar?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Question: Are those Confederate soldiers in your signature?
And if so how do you justify having a Republican avatar?

Yes one is Thomas Jefferson and the other is two Confederate soldiers rallying around the 1st National Confederate Flag. I am a Republican because they stand for most of the issues I support. And yes I know you are going to try and say "Well Lincoln was a Republican". Yes he was, but the Republican party of the 1860s were the Radicals/Liberals and the Democrats were the conservatives. The parties views have flip flopped over the past 145 years. If their were a Constitutional Republic party I would probably be of it, or something like the party Teddy Roosevelt was in. Now THAT was a great man.

Wrong
The Democrats were never the conservatives (there have always been conservative Democrats though) and the Republicans have never been liberals (though there has always been socially liberal Republicans).
I'm not going to get into an argument over this, but I recommend you look up the politics of the C19th before believing what Trent Lott says.

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Lincoln was no liberal (he was an abominable racist for example) and the Abolishion of slavery was never a liberal issue (Abolitionists ranged from liberals like Van Buren, conservatives like Lincoln to nutters like John Brown).
After the Reconstruction, the Bourbons (conservative Democrats) were very powerful, but they were supplanted by populist Democrats within a few years.