Return to the Sea of Madness

Maybe I should pick up politics again cause it's a sea of madness once again. And yet again it started from the social democratic party. I love it. They hade their congress last week and as I have speculated this is where we will see in the future as the most likely deciesion point that effected the outcome of next years election. The good news is the left is pretty much damaged, the bad news is that this will only lead to a very tight election. What went wrong then? Well, for starters there were talk about three major issues that had been lifted by the subgroups of the party that went against the party leadership. In an effort to probably look as a listening leader they took these issues and adopted them. Whitout a debate. In some way this probably has a good strategy in that it puts away the internal strife in the party that stabbed themselves in the back before. The negative is, and I'm sure we on the right will exploit it heavy, is that doesn't show a strong leader if he can't even fight the subgroups of his party. Easy explotable when put into the equation of a coallition government which they need to form if they are gonna win the election. Especially with two partners that a lot of people despise (the left party and the green party). Hopefully we can trigger the same reaction as last election.

Next issue was how they handled who should be in the "board". They have the problem with geography, etnicity and gender. Why not settle with competence and experience cause that is what they lack at the moment. Since they couldn't agree they expanded the standby list from 7 to 8. In the last minute and those who were supposed to vote about it didn't get the list until the vote was supposed to be cast. Undemocratic procedures anyone? The third issue then is tied together with this one cause one of those that got voted into the "board" has gotten himself into a lot of trouble. Not only him but his whole party. He is muslim and the head for some islamic organization so qualified guess they wanted him in to broaden their appeal in that group as well as keep the youth leauge at bay who began talking about the "whiteness of the party". That bite them in the ass. Apparently this young man had a habbit of inviting rather homophobic and antisemetic speakers, and those who complained he attacked as islamophobes. Yeah, not that good. During this time no sign of the (recently voted on) party leader. Not good crisis management. He apparently just now got the foot, but this will haunt them for a while and a party that needed some peace and quitet has yet again found themeselves in the eye of the storm. I hope they stay there until after the election so they might fall below the 30 % voter base.

I know shadenfraude isn't the best feeling to have and it will bite us all in the ass in the end anyway. Cause what will be the consequences? The swedish democratic will probably be the one to gain from the last issue and that is a bit worrying. They seems fairly stable around 10 %, but it all comes down to if it is a midterm votera dismay and it might disapear during the actual election, or that might be a blind fools hope. Also, eventhough all the trouble S has, they at least have their potential coalition partners safely above the 4 % line. The center party is very near the magical numbers when support voters doesn't even give them a chanse since it's hopeless. At the moment they stand at 2,7 %. Might the magic line be around 2-2,5 %? Anyway, it will be a damn intersting election year.