Swedish General Election (11 Sept. 2022) - Who would you vote for ?

[Tender Branson]

Today is the important Swedish general election.

Please check out my election day & results thread here:

Swedish general election (11 September 2022): Results Thread

Today is the Swedish general election. 7.8 million people are eligible to vote in the Reichsdag election. Polls close at 8pm local time. Sweden has one of the highest turnout rates in the World at around 85%. The election is expected to be won by the leftwing Social Democrats at around 30%...

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Who would you vote for if you were a Swedish citizen ?

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[Tender Branson]

I would vote for Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats (S).

 

[Sweden]

I would vote for Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats (S).

I have already voted for the Swedish Democrats who are neither 'far right' nor 'xenophobes' contrary to your ill-informed description.

 

[Tender Branson]

I have already voted for the Swedish Democrats who are neither 'far right' nor 'xenophobes' contrary to your ill-informed description.

They are. There is absolutely no denying. They are the sister-party of our Austrian FPÖ party, which are similar xenophobes and racists.

 

[Sweden]

They are. There is absolutely no denying. They are the sister-party of our Austrian FPÖ party, which are similar xenophobes and racists.

Here is a suggestion; cease your ignorant comments about Sweden and I will continue to avoid commenting on Austria. But maybe that is too much to expect from a 'progressive' puffed up with self-importance and imaginary moral superiority.

 

[Tender Branson]

Here is a suggestion; cease your ignorant comments about Sweden and I will continue to avoid commenting on Austria. But maybe that is too much to expect from a 'progressive' puffed up with self-importance and imaginary moral superiority.

I do not agree with your suggestion, because I am neither ill-informed about Swedish politics nor am I ignorant about the racist Sweden Democrats. I will of course continue to report about Sweden and my opinion on the elections there and you may do so about Austria too. I will not ban you from doing so.

But no matter if it is Sweden, Austria, or the US: every time the Right (= Sweden Democrats, Trumpists, FPÖ etc.) are in power, corruption and fascism flourish. And the country is taking a step backwards. It is not as bad as in Russia, with a fullblown fascist regime, but we must always work and vote to preserve democratic institutions.

Your vote today for the Sweden Democrats is a disgrace.

 

[Tender Branson]

Here is a suggestion; cease your ignorant comments about Sweden and I will continue to avoid commenting on Austria. But maybe that is too much to expect from a 'progressive' puffed up with self-importance and imaginary moral superiority.

Also: the Swedish election today is also heavily covered by Austrian newspapers and TV here, so I cannot be ignorant about it or ill-informed.

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[TheParser]

I hope that the winning coalition can do something about immigration and crime.

Here in the United States, those two topics are rather taboo.

Anyone who wants to discuss them is called ugly names.

The American media (with a few exceptions) downplay or ignore those two topics.

I do not know whether major Swedish media do the same.

Best wishes to the Swedish people. (I once envied Sweden so much.)

 

[Tender Branson]

It is true that Sweden has seen an increase in gang crime and shootings in inner cities, but the murder rate has been unchanged for 20 years, despite massive immigration.

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There were 113 murders in Sweden in 2021, down by 11 compared with 2020.

In 2000, there were 100 murders - but the population increased from 8.5 million to 10.5 million in these 21 years - so the murder rate remained the same.

Also, the murder rate in Sweden is only 1 per 100.000 (slightly higher than in Austria, which has no gang crime whatsoever, despite high immigration) - but even with 1 per 100k, Sweden's murder rate is extremely low: the US for example has a murder rate that is 8x as high.

Sweden's increase in murders since 2015 can be attributed to a small segment of criminal immigrants, mostly young Arab and African men, while the female murder rate even decreased.

So, in other words, Sweden has seen a gang-related crime wave due to 1% of misbehaving immigrant males in certain city areas, while 99% of other immigrants are law-abiding members of Swedish society and there is increased crime in 99% of the other areas of Sweden outside inner-cities ...

The high turnout in elections, also by recently naturalized immigrants from poor regions of the world, is also a testament of successful integration of 99% of immigrants. Of course, the 1% who misbehave must be tackled accordingly and steered away from gang activity.

 

[The flaming lib]

Other. Ultra MAGA write in vote. MSGA!!!

 

[Tender Branson]

Other. Ultra MAGA write in vote. MSGA!!!

You obviously mean the Nordic Resistance Movement then.

 

[Tender Branson]

Polls have just closed.

See my reporting on results here:

Swedish general election (11 September 2022): Results Thread

Today is the Swedish general election. 7.8 million people are eligible to vote in the Reichsdag election. Polls close at 8pm local time. Sweden has one of the highest turnout rates in the World at around 85%. The election is expected to be won by the leftwing Social Democrats at around 30%...

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