Oddbean new post about login | logout The normalisation of the extreme-right by the centre-right in Sweden went like this. - we will never work with them. - we happened to vote the same way as them. - since we know they also like this policy, we will propose it. But we are not working with them! - our policies are based on extreme-right support so it makes sense to talk to them - a local council will be run with extreme-right support. But never nationally! - YOLO national government with extreme right support, it's normal now
Yes this is a subtoot of Germany.
@b870d4c8 Italy is at step 7: extreme-right is the national government now, with center-right minority support.
@b870d4c8 This is what happened in #Hungary around 2010, and I see something eerily similar happening in the #Netherlands (the #VVD is at the stage that they don't exclude the possibility of cooperating with Wilders' #PVV). There is a possibility that I am just an #alarmist but I am certainly not happy with this development.
@b870d4c8 Denmark has avoided step 7: "center" parties adopt sufficient racist politics from extreme-right parties to keep power and even win back voters. For instance, the law to take jewelry from Syrian refugees in 2015 was proposed and implemented by a "center" and "liberal" party. There are many other examples of how racist politics have become adopted by the Danish social democrats and liberal parties, but I'll spare you... Meanwhile, the right-wing knows to keep pushing for more.
@b870d4c8 ad to this that the press did the same journey 10 years earlier.
@b870d4c8 The normalisation of the extreme-right by the centre-right in the UK went like this. * We will never work with them; * But we will adopt all their policies in order to stop bleeding vote-share to them; * Whoops! We seem to have become them, and trashed the whole country in the process; * Never mind, the previously soft-left opposition have moved in to fill the centre right space we vacated, so now the voters have no one to vote for* except right wing parties. * England only
@b870d4c8 COVID played a huge part of that too Sweden openly embraced and encouraged eugenics, calling the purging of the disabled from society by COVID as good & murdered elderly patients in hospitals, giving morphine instead of medicine, euthanizing patients without consent---which is mass murder Now sweden's dealing with the consequences of agreeing with the new aktion t4 (like a lot of so-called western countries) & the promulgation of fascism that came of active eugenics and social murder
@b870d4c8 when Meir Kahane, a Rabbi that can't be described any other way than the Jewish equivalent of a Nazi, was elected into Parliament in 1984, all other parties refused to even acknowledge him, his speeches was boycotted, and a special law was passed to bar him from running in the next election. 40 years later, one of his most prolific students is now the minister of national security who oversees the police.
@b870d4c8 I am amazed by the responses to your post. Putin claims that NATO consists of fascist countries, and clearly that is a widely held belief by your followers (with the Anglo-Saxons getting special attention). Hungary are getting a free pass, as well as Turkey. Further afield Israel gets a mention but North Korea and Iran again are fine. (What is the emoticon for “shakes head in disbelief” ?)