What’s happening in Finland that they turned to the right wing to solve their problems? Here in Australia we’ve recently swept right wing governments at the federal and state level, they were not nearly as extreme, just your garden variety corrupt, climate-denying boomers mismanaging our country to mediocrity.
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"Poor abstract reasoning skills" is probably the most sensitive way I can put it. We're a fairly conservative country at the best of times.
We had a leftist government for the first time in over a decade, and they started right before COVID hit. They handled things OK, but we had a government full of young female ministers and that did not sit right with conservatives. All of the right wing parties and their supporters started lying about eg. employment going down due to government mismanagement (it actually went up despite COVID), the PM using drugs (she wasn't), that the government is taking on too much debt (they weren't, at last in comparison to the other Nordics or central Europe), etc etc. Crises tend to draw people to authoritarianism, and here especially the extreme right wing party is now the second most popular right after the "fiscal conservatives".
But we have the government we deserve. If people are so unfathomably stupid as to want austerity and Nazi ministers, we don't deserve anything better
That’s rough. Come to think of it, I remember seeing the headlines about “outrage over Finland PM doing young-person things”.
It’s such a weird time and if we hadn’t seen a swing in my country towards the far more reasonable left wing I’m sure I would feel pretty grim about the future. I hope there’s a shift over there before they have a chance to ruin things too badly!
That sounds terrible, but yeah other countries in Europe are also going into this direction so ...
lied about almost literally every achievement in his life – university, multiple years of work experience, etc
I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise, but it's funny how common it is for these people to also be complete liars about what they've accomplished in life.
Is it too much to ask to be an honest racist nowadays? Don't make me argue with you about racism and lying. That's just annoying.
Don’t make me argue with you about racism and lying.
That's always the most infuriating part. Like in our case, this whole Junnila case plus all the other extremists in the current government whose public support for eg. the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory has now come to light have all been painted as a "leftist witch hunt".
I think on some level they understand that most people aren't OK with eg. neo-nazis so they have to at least pretend to be offended by the accusation to make it seem like it's all baseless. The problem is that people believe them, so generally the only way for conservatives to get in power and stay there is to lie constantly
Why did they make this turn to the right?