Jeg får nesten reposte denne fra hva har gått galt i Sverige tråden:
En god kommentar om mye (den kunne passet i flere tråder) fra en meget innsiktsfull person fra UK som poster en del i et nettsted for klassisk musikk jeg følger tett:
"The increase in the far right vote is by no means insignificant, but it shouldn't be overstated either. About 82% of those who voted voted against the far right, so they're not storming to power on a huge surge of mass support. The most they can hope for is to play a part in a coalition, but they may well not even get that.
What is perhaps more worrying than this specific result is the fact that it's the latest of a lengthening list of Western countries to see an increase in political sentiment which is at best nationalist, and sometimes downright xenophobic/racist. We've seen it with Le Pen in France, the current Italian government, the parties in power in Poland and Hungary - and obviously there's Trump and Brexit too.
Why is it happening? I think it has a lot to do with the crash of 2008 and the reaction to it, and the fact that centre-left parties had signed up to the ideological tenets of free market fundamentalism/neoliberalism/Thatcherism/whatever you want to call it, on the grounds that there was "no alternative". As long as things kept ticking over and those parties were winning elections they weren't going to do too much to challenge that status quo. But then the crash hit. And that meant voters were faced with a "choice" between established parties who were either on the right/centre-right, and hence enthusiastic believers in the Thatcherite consensus - the very ideology which produced the crash - or parties on the centre-left, who had signed up to that same ideology because they didn't know what else to do. Clearly, it wasn't going to be credible for centre-left parties to suddenly disown that ideology, not after spending years claiming that there was no alternative. So the view that political parties are "basically all the same", which was already widespread, became even more dominant, and in a febrile climate like that of the last decade it's not surprising that many people have not just been looking for something different, but are also willing to consider much more radical alternatives than they previously would have.
The fact that centre-left parties lost credibility because of their association with an economic ideology which has had (and continues to have) such damaging consequences is particularly unfortunate, because normally it would be those parties which we would have looked to to provide alternative policies aimed at a more equitable distribution of wealth and thus the mitigation of the grotesque inequality which provides such fertile ground for resentment. Instead, those parties' loss of credibility left the way open for the far right to whip up nationalist and xenophobic sentiment, which can only make things worse, not least because it doesn't address the underlying causes of legitimate grievances. We can see this with Brexit: Farage has openly admitted that his strategy was to make the EU synonymous with immigration, so ensuring that by blaming the EU for all Britain's ills, the blame also went on immigrants. This bullshit isn't going to take us to the sunlit uplands that the Brexiters promised - and things will probably turn ugly when leave voters realise that - but it worked in terms of winning the referendum.
The above goes a long way to explaining Corbyn's rise to the Labour leadership. Unlike the self-styled "moderates" he'd never bought into the Thatcherite consensus, so he could attack it with credibility. The same could not be said for the other candidates in that leadership election, and we saw what happened. Even now, the Labour right seems to think that a reheated Blairism is what will sweep them back to power, yet Corbyn's Labour is one of the few centre-left parties which, for all the turbulence caused by the divisions between the left and right of the party, hasn't plummeted in popularity. If the "moderates" put half as much effort into revitalising their own intellectual position as they do into attacking Corbyn, Labour might have the kind of poll lead which they keep saying it should have.
One thing to be thankful for about the Sweden result is that it could have been a lot worse: Sweden has a much stronger welfare state than we do in the UK, and that's one reason it doesn't have the sort of obscene levels of inequality which have become normalised here. If Sweden were more like the UK in those respects I shudder to think what the result would have been.