Which Generic European party would you vote for?

[parochial boy]

European multiparty systems tend to conform to a type. So, for us to never need to have a "who would you vote for in coutry X" again, here is the full list of parties that tend to emerge when Europeans do Proportional Representation.

The GOD party - mad Christians who hate everyone who isn't a mad christian, although they don't mind the right wing populists

The Humanist Christian party - Conservative Christians who also like poor people and foreigners

The Money Money Money party - Right wing liberals who are now increasingly open to anti-immigrant illberal sentiment, because, at the end of the day, the most important thing is to stay in power so that they can cut taxes

The Obsolete Christian party - Conservative, but supportive of vaguely redistributive economic policies. They've lost virtually all of their voters because the issues that they used to define themselves by (opposition to secularism, abortion, whatever) are no longer relevant - and even they don't believe in any of that any more

The Farmers party - They used to be the party for farmers, they now support something totally different, but still do well in rural areas because people in the countryside are a bit slow

The Crap Right Wing Populists - They made it big off of being anti-migrant, anti-muslim or whatever. Sadly, they were a bit rubbish and got replaced.  Law of the jungle folks.

The Not Crap Right Wing Populists - They are angry, their voters are angry, and everyone is terrified of them.

The Left Wing populists - prone to sectarianism, by the time you read this they will have split into three different parties. Oh, there are four of them now. What a wasted opportunity...

Social Democracy and Generalised Panic - You know the drill, they used to be big, but now they're a weak opposition who don't even know what or who they stand for anymore.

The Quinoa and Bicycles Party - noteworthy because every single one of their voters is a university student or lives in the capital city

The Woke Centrists party - They love quinoa and bicycles too, but they also don't like taxes

[America Needs R'hllor]

Woke Centrists ftw

[mvd10]

The Money Money Money Party is a perfect description of the VVD (my party) and my politics . Which parties inspired 'GOD party'? The only relevant Christian Right (not Christian Democratic) party I can think of is the Dutch SGP. Or are the Eastern European right-wing parties in this category?

[Dr. MB]

Left-wing populists

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Obsolete Christians.

[darklordoftech]

Social Democracy and Generalised Panic

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

lol nice

Humanist Christians

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Obsolete Christians.

[Person Man]

And whose on Ambien?

[Goldwater]

Money Money Money/Woke Centerist swing voter.

[Sirius_]

Quinoa&Bycicle/Woke Centrist swing voter, but a minority faction in both.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Farmers Party/Social Democracy and Generalised Panic swing voter.

[Horus]

woke centrist/left wing populist swing voter

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

left populist/farmer's party swing voter, or else a farmer's party entryist trying to turn it into the left populist party before Old Farmer Ole/Jacques/Hans notices.

[mvd10]

Except for the farmer's party (which obviously is based on the Swedish Centre Party) this is a perfect description of Dutch politics

The GOD party - SGP (2%)

The Humanist Christian party - CU (3%)

The Money Money Money party - VVD (21%)

The Obsolete Christian party - CDA (12%)

The Farmers party - N/A

The Crap Right Wing Populists - PVV (13%)

The Not Crap Right Wing Populists - FvD (2%, but they've overtaken the PVV in the polls)

The Left Wing populists - SP (9%)

Social Democracy and Generalised Panic - PvdA (6%)

The Quinoa and Bicycles Party - GL (9%)

The Woke Centrists party - D66 (12%)

Note that the Money Money Money party has won three elections in a row and has been in charge since 2010 . VVD über alles! We're currently in a coalition between the Money Money Money party (thanks for repealing the dividend tax!), Obsolete Christians, Woke Centrists and Humanist Christians.

[Tender Branson]

A mix of Farmer's Party and Social Democrats, because I like the "slowness" of rural people that you describe and Social Democracy (but with an anti-immigration position) is still preferable to anything else, even if deeply flawed.

[parochial boy]

Except for the farmer's party (which obviously is based on the Swedish Centre Party) this is a perfect description of Dutch politics

Holland and Switzerland were the chief sources of inspiration tbh, as they seem to have the widest encompassing party scenes Every party has a Swiss version here. The farmers party were inspired by Venstre or Nordic Centre parties; but also by the UDC/SVP, as those agrarian parties went off in a number of directions once the old agricultural base dissapeared.

But you can fit examples from all of Europe in here - any Soc Dem party; pretty much any Christian Democratic party (Swiss, Belgian, the Nordic ones) that isn't the CDU; the PLR/FDP, ÖVP, Mouvement Réformateur; the respective French and Swiss "left of the left" parties, and so on.

Which parties inspired 'GOD party'? The only relevant Christian Right (not Christian Democratic) party I can think of is the Dutch SGP. Or are the Eastern European right-wing parties in this category?

I never actually answered this so...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Democratic_Union_of_Switzerland but also the the DUP, the French Christian Democrats

[DC Al Fine]

Very funny

I'd be a God/Humanist Christian swing voter

[dead0man]

Money Money Money/Woke Centerist swing voter.

this, leaning more towards the money

[Former President tack50]

Social Democracy and Generalised Panic

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Social Democracy and Generalised Panic

[DavidB.]

This totally seems like the Dutch party system. Guess my party, FVD, is a textbook example of the Not Crap Right-Wing Populists, so I'll go with them. Though FVD aren't "angry", they are remarkably optimistic and joyous compared to the PVV, which is good and probably electorally smart: you have to sell your bleak worldview in combination with the promise and genuine belief that the tide can still be turned.

[seb_pard]

[1] Left-wing populists
[2] Quinoa & bicycles
[3] Social democracy & generalized panic

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Which is the "Minor right-wing party founded by former leader of a larger right-wing party that drifted too far right"?

[parochial boy]

Which is the "Minor right-wing party founded by former leader of a larger right-wing party that drifted too far right"?

Damn Assuming you mean BZÖ, we might have to just dump them in the Crap Right Wing Populists box.

I also missed the "Single Issue Regional Party led by an egomaniac" and if we're copying the Netherlands, there needs to be a "Döner Kebab party - for people who just really love Erdogan" and a "Make Meat Illegal - for people that think animals are better than humans and that farming is a form of plant abuse"