• interolivary@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I’m Finnish so I’m lucky in the sense that we have more than two options when picking a political party, and eg. I vote for a democratic socialist party called the Left Alliance.

      On the unfortunate flipside half the country is very conservative compared to the rest of the Nordics, and our new government – who got in power by lying ceaselessly about the previous lefist government (first of its kind in almost 20 years if not more) and what exactly led to eg. our healthcare system collapsing (pro tip: it wasn’t leftists, but our “fiscal” conservatives cutting funding) – has literal neo-Nazis, and the ones who aren’t outright Nazis are so right wing that you wouldn’t really know the difference. So bigotry is now the norm (up to and including MPs and ministers having publicly fantasized about murdering leftists, immigrants and/or gay people) and our new Minister of the Environment is a climate change denialist.