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A political slogan recently appeared whose wording reached the level of pure name and news: “If the Social Democrats leave the Social Democrats, the Social Democrats leave the Social Democrats.”
It was about the internal resistance to the S’s rapprochement with the SD on migration policy, and it sounds like a real party revolution. But also as a fairly well-established tradition at this point, perhaps as Swedish as the stable Swedish popular movement once was.
Most recently, it was the Liberals who had the same problem, not too many years after they changed their name from the People’s Party (which was an unnecessarily pompous name for a party with such a small percentage of the population). But that was at a different time when most parties claimed to be some kind of liberal.
Well, if even the liberals When someone leaves liberalism, the party shrinks like never before. Exactly where they will go is still unclear, and some commentators have suggested that perhaps they should go all-in on liberalism. But there will probably still be a few twists and turns.
The moderates have slipped in the other direction. When they changed their name from “Right Party” in 1969, they did not want to leave their position on the extreme right wing of politics, but simply adopted a name that signaled compromise.
A few decades later, however, the political positions had time to change, another party positioned itself further to the right – and if both C and KD also tried positions to the right of M, the label “moderate” might actually be more appropriate today than when it was new.
Even if the attempt to take over the center with the label “the new workers’ party” is erased from its own historiography.
And the center is already back in the middle, as the name suggests, which the party chose to avoid the all too obvious Farmers’ Union.
The Christian Democrats, on the other hand, are engaged in an intensive debate about their relationship to the Christian message of charity and openness towards strangers. The party’s change in position is so great that old party leaders have distanced themselves, which also supports the thesis that this is how Swedish party politics works today.
The Greens’ sticking to their original issue can then be seen as the exception that proves the rule, completely at odds with the fact that the environmental issue is one of the things that the Swedish people usually list as one of their top priorities – before then electing completely different parties.
Read more stories from Nisse, for example about a very long word that keeps mutating.
