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So important to document all these tactics and counter-tactics. It will also come to parts of Europe soon. Sweden has under the current government implemented prisons for children and forced government employees to report suspected undocumented children and families. And the far-right has not even officially been included in the government yet. We probably have to prepare here too.
Sweden. I didn’t have that on my 2025 bingo card.
Fascism is running rampant through most Western styled democracies all over the globe. It's a byproduct of late stage capitalism, instead of addressing the root problem that is causing wealth inequality, fascist and their wealthy backers are blaming everything on scapegoats.
The US is just the bellwether, but we've seen a very prominent rise in far right parties surging in even socdem countries.
Well put. We are just as immune as the USA thought they were
It's a different disease though. There is no political option that isn't for migration crackdowns, imprisoning children and removing safeguards against repression and surveillance. But as opposed to the Trump regime, neither side of Swedish politics are trying to abolish the other or is actively trying to break down the constitutional order.
what? the Left party certainly isn't for stricter migration politics, and they're the largest small party!
If you are Swedish you will remember the Green Party spokesperson Åsa Romson crying as her government announced a crackdown on migrants. Left wing leader Nooshi Dadgostar would (will?) have done the same in Romson's situation, albeit, hopefully, without crying. That's just the way it is when you're a minority partner in a government led by a party that copies all their policies on crime and migration from the far right.
Yet. There is no one trying to break down the constitutional order yet. Despite all we're seeing, despite Åkesson having made warm remarks about Trump for years, despite being hostile towards the media, despite never-ending racist remarks from his party, despite record unemployment, he is currently enjoying the highest voter confidence of any party leader. If the trend continues, the same disease will end up in Sweden as well sooner or later.
I'd say we're far from close in Sweden. The uptick in SD voters is very concerning, and the rest of the right is pretty trash as well. But it's at least pretty likely the left gets the win this year, so let's hope they do and start cleaning up the mess the right has created...
i'm infinitely more worried about M and S than i am about SD, as SD seems to be busy destroying themselves through concentrated incompetence.
M are actually competent and know how to ease in fascism by making it look perfectly normal, and i wouldn't be surprised if S ends up turning into SS without even realizing it themselves..
And yet they seem to increase in polls. It feels like their voters are as immune to all their shit as the republican voters are....
I'm not seeing this happening any time soon, I'm more worried about M following the SD playbook to try to appease their voters. The only good thing about this whole mess is that my dad and brother, that are both very much with M, are both considering voting S this year. And my dad has even been in city council (? kommunfullmäktige) for M. That might be an indication that M is going to lose quite a few voters this year.
In 10 years we'll officially know the CIA has been funding far-right groups in the EU.
And the Swedish political shit is floating over to Finland too.
Yes you do.
Do you or anybody know if there is a good place to find tactics currently being battle tested and updated from Minnesota and other places? I feel like the HK protests also had lots of interesting findings. It might be useful for SUTR and other UK anti-facist groups
Wow this is the first I've heard of Sweden falling so badly . . .
Has been for a while now. Kinda sad considering it used to be considered a bastion of modern society.