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With 6.6 percent of voters backing them, the far-right Sweden Democrats have grown to be Sweden’s fourth-largest party, according to the latest poll from research institute Sifo.
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These facists and racists parties only Brain wash the voters and blaming everything on immigrants And once they into power they mess up everything. Because only haters and facists are members of these parties and they dont have a solution for the government. Look atthe Holland right now, so much problem because of these racists getting in and fking all the systems .
Do not be brain washed by these racists. Get educated and get job and stop blaming others for you failurely.
You're comment just smells of the so-called brainwashing you love to rally against. It's just full of contemptible language and empty rhetoric, for instance:
"These facists and racists parties only Brain wash the voters and blaming everything on immigrants And once they into power they mess up everything."
Are you 13 years old or something? Because I have never heard adults discuss politics and use general, meaningless terms like "blaming everything" or "mess up everything." What exactly do you mean by "everything?" Maybe you're the one who should stop blaming others for YOUR failures.
Look, I didn't vote for the Sweden Democrats last time and I probably wouldn't again as I disagree with them on a few issues (like their stance on the Sami). However, not even the most nugatory political party (which SD isn't) is worthy of such a useless criticism. The Sweden Democrats are hardly the most "racist" party in Sweden as you claim, have you ever heard of the Party of the Swedes or the National Democrats? Additionally, the term "racist" is misused in regard to SD, it may be appropriate to call them "xenophobic" in certain instances, but certainly not racist. (4 out of 5 times when people say "racist" they actually mean xenophobic, "racism" gets thrown around like hot potatoes).
Few years and Sweden Democrats + Pirate Party are in charge.
All that SD wants is to introduce rules that are accepted in "racist" countries like Canada, Australia and Japan, but it is the higher goal of the muslim population to prevent this understanding.
I do not think that swedes are perfect. It is extremely difficult for a person who came for a country where "everything is allowed, until you do something that deserves beheading" and who grew up with clear and bright rules of life from his beating parents, to understand that it is not acceptable not to put a stick on the conveyor after you offloaded your groceries and it is not acceptable to be flexible with timing. So I totally understand the confused somalis and afghanis.
However the immigrants do not believe that THEY need to adjust their behavior. They TRULY believe that the swedes need to bend to their way of living (as it is the absolutely correct way) and if they refuse, they are racist. The Local wisely blocked commenting on the article where muslim kids get special treatment.
The kind of a special treatment of a superior group of people "who know better". The kind that Hitlerjunge got in their schools. The kind that does not mix them with the "dirty locals" in the showers and on trips. THIS is the problem and THIS is why SD will not disappear until an understanding that the surroundings has changed, ascend upon islamic immigrants.
Screaming about them "racist", while insisting that your kids get "special race" treatment does not HELP. It just makes you look either mischievous or retarded. I personally incline towards the former.
Anyway, I'm actually surprised the Sweden Democrats don't have MORE than 6.6% support. I mean if you look at parties with similar ideals as them around Europe, they have been scoring comparably low. For example, last year the True Finns in Finland and the Swiss People's Party in Switzerland gained 19.1% and 26.6% of votes in their respective countries. The Freedom Party of Austria gained 17.5% of the vote in 2008 and has been leading or near leading opinion polls in that country since. And of course there's the aforementioned Party for Freedom who gained 15.5% of the Dutch vote in 2010.
The closest comparison to Sweden culturally Scandinavian would be the Danish People's Party next door, they've been in parliament since 1998 (so they're pretty much a seasoned veteran party by this point) and fell in support about 1% last year but still managed to grab onto 12.3% of the vote, which is more than double what the Sweden Democrats got in 2010.
What I'm saying is that I'm surprised the SD don't have 10% support at the least, is this due to the politically correct nature of Swedish society or what?
In the last election, SD was polling right before the election between 3 and 4 % but ended up with 5.7 percent as the votes were tallied. SD is branded racist by many, so declaring your support, even in a public opinion poll is something that many Swedes will avoid. Avoiding conflict and having a good public image is very important to your average Swede. What they think privately and how they vote, is however a different story. In 2014, look for SD to hit double digits, especially if the majority parties continue to ignore the elephant in the room.
Yeah, it seems that's the case. I don't know a single person who is openly an SD-supporter (for fear of being publicly ostracized and branded as a "racist"), but I'm sure there's a few people I know who would vote for them and even more who lean in their direction. I think that if everybody in Sweden would vote with their true feelings rather than being afraid of what people might think of them or who they were "expected" to vote for, SD might get anywhere in the range of 10-20% of the vote. Of course this is just speculation, however I wouldn't be surprised if it would hold true.
SD should propose investing the budget into those who are already here in order to provide them with better tools for integration and understanding of the swedish society (although it is clear to everyone in his right mind that it takes two to tango and that a lot of those who come here would love to see Sweden to turn into the bucket of feces that they left).
They need to present it in the way where every swede could proudly announce that by voting SD he/she HELPS immigrants and provides for their needs. Every voter should be able to say that for the sake of current immigrants, he/she forgot other outstanding problems and DONATED his/her vote for the salvation of current immigrants.
Closing borders would mean better education for immigrants, sponsored jobs, tax benefits, a personal social worker for every household, for God sake. More money would provide better control over imams, who sometimes "happen to erroneously misinform" their flock of the jihad requirements as nr 1 on Allah's list of priorities. It would allow to spread the wonderful immigrants all over the country into sponsored homes with weekly massage and food delivery to each family.
SD should look like a non-profit charity organization that Mother Theresa would not be ashamed to support. This is the only way forward in Sweden.
well Sweden Democrats should be actually thankful to the Immigrants. Because of many of our mistakes Sweden Democrats gained popularity.
The only way to reduce their popularity is to improve ourselves. Failure to do so, will kick social democrats out of govt and Sweden Democrats as majority party. So stop blaming and complaining about racisim BS and leave the lazy life and do something related to our own improvement.
Excellent point. Fully support.
One thing is to sit and whine about swedish racism (or french, or dutch, or german, or american, or australian, or whatever) and do nothing about it, but moan and completely other thing is to make organisations that assist the new-coming immigrants to integrate.
Such organizations could gather money not to build mosques and pay the lawyers in lawsuits against racist infidels, but invest into criminal youth, multi-children families and unemployed people from their OWN communities...
Hell, I have heard facts about somalians fooling new-coming somalians into paying for "arranging" documents and benefits that are awarded for free. Is there a somalian organisation that STOPS this behavior? Is there any action on behalf of somalian "veteran" community to protect the new-comers from their own people? No... it is expected from the racist swedes to take care of that.
vote for Jimme Akesson and his Sweden Democrat as this is the only Swedish Party that tells the truth about Sweden today and it's future to the natives Swedish
unlike '
Should Jimme Akesson and his Sweden Democrat fails the Natives Swedish that
are going to vote for him and his party ,then there is always the next round so one
needn't worry about it too much.
Jimme Akesson and his Sweden Democrat should be given a chance by the
Swedish people to play a major role in shaping beautiful Sweden from now so that it won't be ruined by some holy pretenders .
I came to Sweden som 15 yrs ago & even in this period I have noticed the degeneration of the society once renowned for it's cleanlines. Everything cannot be blamed on immigrants but certain cultures ancient ways have certainly had a lot of influence. You only have to look in the areas where the ethnic minorities or not a minority to see the lack of respect they have for their surroundings with scrap cars etc left to rot.
The lack of respect & ignorance of the younger generation is also prominent quite obviously influenced by the "rap" culture.
Sweden is too soft to combat these problems & will soon degenerate into a third world country.
The multicutural society is here to stay...live with it or move to that horrible place in Skåne where all the racists congregrate. Then you can indulge in your meaningless rituals and whinge to each other without bothering the rest of us.
Just because you hate your own lives doesn't mean you have to be haters.
Say no to the future Breiviks of this world!
And true, the Swedes cannot blame every problem in Sweden on immigrants but it's exactly the same way for the latter as well - immigrants cannot blame every problem they're having on Sweden and the Swedes. People, immigrants as well as native Swedes, need to learn to take responsibility of their own actions!
To say "I hate it in Sweden but had no other choice but to come here" isn't just showing your own weakness but is telling you're a liar as well. There is always a choice! YOU make them. The choices WILL bring consequences. Live with them! You'll be a happier person once you realize that your situation in Sweden is your own fault. Because if it's a fault of your own actions you can correct the fault with some other of - still your own - actions.
"Sweden Democrats = thugs and racists in sheep's clothing.
The multicutural society is here to stay...live with it or move to that horrible place in Skåne where all the racists congregrate."
Where should swedes go if they don't like "multicultural" (khm, khm islamic khm) society? To Skåne? You mean to Malmö, where Jews, gays and women do not get to pass on a street without being attacked by this loving and peaceful society?
Where otherwise would you propose to misplace swedes, who are, unlike the "multicultural" society, seem to be employed even according to the Prime Minister of the state Sweden?
To Stockholm where members of religion of peace seem to be exploding near main street? How about other country? New York? London? Madrid? Rome? Where can they hide from loving "multicultural" society?
The residency for my wife was recently rejected by the migration board.
Guess what:
I'm at least 9 generation Swedish, my kids are Swedish and my wife EU national. She now has to leave Sweden every 3 months or she face charges for illegal immigration and deported for life.
Totally screwed up system. I'm not treated as Swedish.
A smarter alternative would be to push the moderates and lefts to add the policies they want, but to surplant them entirely with people who care only for the rich and privileged is cutting your nose to spite your face.