Jimmie Åkesson divides the country – take the bus to the countryside and you’ll understand why

Take the bus to the country and you’ll understand Jimmie Åkesson’s success

Aftonbladet opening page He is an independent social democrat.

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The numbers on Electoral College website He speaks his own language.

If you take the bus from a city, on country roads to smaller towns, people’s voting patterns change. From an often powerful social democratic stronghold with elements of the various bourgeois and liberal towers of the city, to Swedish Democrats become the dominant party.

It’s one of the big stories from this year’s election.

This is why the SD party has overtaken the moderates as the second largest party in the country, and that the party has managed to grow in every election since 1988.

It’s time to start understanding why. Because we have now reached a point in Swedish politics where no one should be taken to bed any longer, surprised or baffled by the successes of the Swedish Democrats.

Lessons from Trump and Brexit

When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in 2016, much of the Western world was shocked.

“Can’t he? How can people vote for such an idiot?” Shocked reporters said in newsrooms and among officials in the corridors of the White House.

Then Donald Trump arrived with his moving load, and the Grand Presidential Council was suspended so that no one erred and nothing would be the same.

Britain’s exit from the European Union was a similar measure.

Above all, it was the same groups of voters that voted for the previously unimaginable. People who live far from power, but whose lives have been greatly affected by the policies that have been followed. With lower standard of living, income, community service and future opportunities as a result.

Above all, people were angry. Whether it was a red or blue government, development could have gone in a different direction.

Rarely in their direction.

The Swedish Democrats’ success story is not entirely different.

direct resentment

Yes of course there is an elemental dimension. If a party uses nationalist and racist rhetoric and then makes policy proposals along the same lines. Then we can assume that voters know exactly what they are voting for and welcome this development.

But then we have voters who hope for change, a change that no one has bothered to deliver before.

When the community is dismantled, everything becomes a little further away, it becomes a little more expensive and hard to reach. When society spins faster in other places but time seems to have stopped elsewhere.

Another bus left.

So it’s the ballot paper I left to bring about change.
If nothing is done about this gap, the SD will be the biggest party in the upcoming elections.