Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "SWEDEN IS STILL TOTALLY NUTS" video.
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Millennial Girl: The thing is this, "the majority" of Swedes didn't vote "for" a migrant crisis.
The problem in Swedish politics was that pretty much ALL established parties in parliament had favourable views of mass immigration (or at the very least: didn't dare to present opposikg views to it, due to fear of losing support by being called racist). But the issue of immigration wasn't and has never been what parties chose as their main issues to go campaigning with.
The parties were generally going to election speaking about things like jobs, tax cuts (or increased taxes), welfare, health care etc.
These were the issues people primarily based their choices on when casting their vote. Then issue of immigration and a migrant crisis was sort of a slowly creeping issue.
Only ONE party with hopes of getting into parliament campaigned with immigration as their primary issue, and that was the Sweden Democrats.
But their PR naturally suffered immensly at the hands of extreme left wing slanderers throwing constant barrages of racist-accusations against them. The Sweden democrats also weren't helped by the fact that they were parliamentary noobs back then (they had little experience of parliament, and were seen by most as unproven and insecure for political office), and of course that in it's early days the party mostly comprised of skinheads and neo-nazis which caused a lot of trouble and controversy in Sweden during the 80's and the 90's (the party isn't a neo-nazi party anymore though, since Jimmie Ã…kesson and the management have done a lot to purge the party of right wing extremists and made the party more center right with a nationalistic and protectionistic policy).
So, the Sweden Democrats had a rough start in mainstream politics, and they also had little in the way of a political program aside from being profiled in anti-immigration (kind or hard to earn the public trust when you have no idea of how to handle defense, healthcare, education, police, economy, jobs etc. and all the other issues that a ruling party is expected to handle).
It's also a bit much to expect of average Swedes to just cast their votes at an entirely unproven and small party at such a stage, so you can't really blame all of them for it.
BUT on the plus side, immigration has, over time, become one of the biggest issues in politics in Sweden. And since the other asshat, pro-immigration parties have had to change their stances on immigration (closint borders etc.) as well as acting extremely childish and disruptive in parliament when dealing with SD, and SD themselves becoming an established party in parliament, they are now seen as more experienced, and is the only political party with a growing support (whereas the others are all in decline).
The Sweden Democrats are having a lot of "We told you so"-moments and puts the other parties to shame.
It's just a matter of time before they'll be the dominant political faction and can begin to clean house in earnest.
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