Reflections

Been reading through the blog from when I restarted it back in 2009 and maybe a year forward or so. It's rather interesting to see how I have developed, not only my writing style that was rather much ramblings, but also my political leanings and beliefs. For example, one of the recurring ideas I had was that my own party and the Social Democrats should join forces to break the bloc politics and do the best for Sweden, and if we had to accept the Centre party and the green party in to a coalition. The centre party and christian democratic parties I really seemed to despise for some reason (maybe hyperbole) and I seemed to tolerate the greens.

So who was I back in 2009?

That is particularly interesting since today I find the christian democrats and centre party actually be the heart and soul of the Alliance, the christian democrats being the ones that speaks of the bourgeoisie values and actually holds the liberal idea of limiting governmental interference in every day life while the centre party lies closer to the more liberal utopian ideas of free market and open borders. Compare for example with my own party, the Liberals that are discussing quotas in parental support instead of families choosing themselves. The only thing we seem to have is a more realistic view on the military, joining NATO, support the EU, pro-nuclear power. Real concrete ideas that we fight for and I agree on... but where is the ideological vision to tie this all together? The latest Almedal's speech our party leader held had some of those ideas, the free market, limited interference of the unions and de-regulation, but where is the proposals. It's a pity (according to me) that it would be more liberal to vote for the christian democrats in the next election. Really, back in '09 I would have jumped on the idea of kicking both parties out of the Riksdag, so what happened?

Well, obviously someone played the change of heart card!

So what happened? It could be that as I was studying more and more of social contract theories (which incidentally was spoken by the first liberal movements) I become more purist and strayed from earlier social liberal roots toward a more pure liberal identity (or neoliberal... or conservative liberal... I'm not entirely sure yet). This might have accelerated in 2010 when adding the economic ideas on growth to my D-essay taking an even more liberal stand. So I moved toward the Swedish political right, firmly fast in my believes. At the same time the Social Democrats plummeted in the polls, and my awe for them to strong arm smaller parties disappeared as they grew weaker and the coalition between the left party and the utopian greens left me questioning if they could handle this new landscape in order to work for Sweden's best interest (and with the answer today looking at the current red-green government, no, they can't). Not only was the social democrats going down, they went toward the left as well as the left party dragged them there and when the greens went even further left I cut the ties to that side for the time being (who knows, maybe the social democrats will do a blue or new labour). So my trust in the social democrats was damaged, didn't help that by studying economics I began to understand what had happen in the 90's. What caused the economic crash and what the social democrats did to hide the fact and blame the centre-right parties for something they themselves caused. 

All the burning bridges that's fallen after me

All the lonely feelings and burning memories

Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door

Burning bridges lost forevermore

Mike Curb Congregation

So here I stand, the parties on the left have burnt their bridges while the parties on the right is to non-liberal in some areas while excelling in others. The only one of the four that just seems meh is interesting enough the largest of them, and that is probably cause they are scared to anger the voters, incidentally forgetting why they became the largest centre-party in the 70's. Maybe it's time for a new leading party, and sadly it will either be the centre party or the christian democratic party. If the liberals don't begin packing hard punches and actually tries to be ideological liberal I don't see how they can even compete and it becomes more a struggle for surviving the 4 % line.

Wow, that felt good getting out of the chest. How long time ago was it I actually discussed politics on this blog? Even more wow, not since December before they cancelled the extra election? Well, I've been rather apathetic when it comes to the internal politics of Sweden since the current government is making an ass of itself while everyone else licks their wounds and prepare a 2018 take over I guess. What we lack is some fighting spirit I feel, but without cash and an ideological vision to answer the societal problems it's hard to feel victorious and with that, why would we win? I say it again, dare to be controversial and attack former golden calves that we didn't dare in government. The unions, the housing market and for god sake, at least try make a decent integration program so we can start undermining the Sweden democrats. Hell, I would even go as far as attacking most of the welfare state. Break the monopolies, be the radicals that were able to tell the people that more taxes doesn't equal better welfare and do the same with the rest of the monopolies. Do what we did in the 19th century to create the fastest growing economy in the world.

FREEDOM! FREEDOM! (ok, maybe a flower makes it sound rather silly)