Thread: Danish Election: Socialist party wins by a landslide (0.4%)!

Have fun with your socialism over there. Don't worry about being lonely, the US is right behind ya.

You should not have to be governed by a political party you do not agree with... That seems one of the major pitfalls of representative politics.

Although, you should not have to be governed by another human being at all. Too idealistic I guess.

This is great It was getting lonely, you know, being the only Scandinavian country with proper socialistic rule.

Oh come on
free, motherfuckin
HEALTHCARE.

Let me explain Danish politics:

We have around 9 big parties, two of which are bigger than the rest. Their "size" is defined by how many people vote for them, in this context. Usually, these 9 parties split up into two blocks, a blue and a red one, liberal (borgerlig) and socialist.

So you have:
Blue block:
Venstre (biggest party out of them all, weirdly enough named "venstre" which means left, though that's a long story)
Dansk Folkeparti (second biggest blue party, third biggest party all in all)
Liberal Alliance (very liberal party, although not extremists. I voted for them.)
Konservative

Red block:
Social Demokraterne (second biggest party, their leader is now the primeminister)
Det Radikale Venstre (basically a party with liberal politics, though for some reason they went with the red (socialist) block)
Socialistisk Folkeparti
Enhedslisten (communists, more or less, though their leader is super hot)

So basically, you vote for any party in any of the blocks, and you will be supporting that block. Even though "Venstre" is the biggest party right now, they still don't win the election, because the overall votes for the red block trumpt blue's.

As was said in the thread title, the election was super close, only 0.4%. What this means, is that the blue block still has power. The red block also had some power during the previous period, when blue block was in charge, of course. In the end, Danish politics will remain a mix between blue and red. Of course the red block will have more power, and they will do some things in their 4 year period now, that will most likely do more harm than good for Denmark, but at least it is limited.

No matter what you vote for in Denmark though, we will still remain a very socialist country. Even if "Liberal Alliance" got into office, with complete power, the country would probably still be many times more socialist than the US.

Originally Posted by Marvo

Let me explain Danish politics:
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That's pretty much how it works here as well.