Re: Sad...no disgusted...no sad AND disgusted/ |)onna

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Thank you, |)onna!It is a sad day indeed. One politician, don't remember the party but that is quite irrelevant, said during the night after the elections, when the preliminary results were in, when questioned by a TV-reporter about what he believed/felt about chances of winning/losing the election:"Questions of winning or losing the election feels rather redundant right now. If these preliminary results turns out to be the final ones, we will not have lost an election, but a country"And I read one comment yesterday saying: "Late at night the 28th of February 1986 part of Sweden as we had known it died. A september night 24 years later something similar happened." (The first date was referring to the assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, which changed a lot about how Swedes viewed Sweden and how politics was thought and done). The writer continued: "Yes, I know the comparison may seem drastic. But I am convinced that could Olof Palme be consulted today, he would consider Nazi politicians at power in Sweden something of even greater significance than his own death" Strong words, in both cases, but true. And yes, I believe we must have failed something miserably with history education for this to be possible.love/Reb> >> >> > So...it happened...unbelievable as it is. Yes, I want to call it > > unbelievable, I know many say today it shouldn't have come as a > > surprise, and in a way I suppose it didn't, but I just never wanted to > > believe it would actually take place... an actual nazi party* in the > > Swedish parliament. And with a risk of real influence** as well.> >> > I am sad all over AND completely disgusted.> >> > Many sad and angry songs played today. Over and over again.> >> > I know. They (the morons who voted nazi) are only about 6%. That means > > 94% didn't. And I suppose that should be a comfort. Probably will be, > > another day. But today I am just sad and disgusted.> >> > Doesn't make it a lot better that here where we are they actually got > > between 10% and 14%. said over dinner today: "Never before have I > > seen and heard people do the nazi salute [sieg Heil] live. Not > > anywhere. Not anytime. Only in documentaries about the 1930's and > > 1940's and world war II. But here I have.... And yet this is a nice > > place. How is that even possible?" I can only agree, and I have no > > answer. This IS a nice place. But yes, here I have seen and heard > > that, and been disgusted by it, and the political situation is just > > plain nightmarish. It doesn't add up, it just doesn't.> >> > Sigh... I guess I should go to bed now, and I say as one friend of > > mine said in a text just now: "Going to bed now. When I wake up > > tomorrow I want this whole election result to just have been a bad > > nasty dream". Agree.> >> > love> > /Reb> >> >> >> >> > * Sverigedemokraterna, abbreviated SD, used to be an self-acclaimed > > nazi party, they have cleaned up their act a little. But not their > > agenda or their politics, the only thing that has changed is they no > > longer use the nazi-word, and they *try* to refrain from saying Sieg > > Heil and stuff like that in public, with varied/limited success (ie. > > they tend to do that as soon as they don't know there is a camera or > > reporter present). And in at least one local parliament (City hall? Is > > that the word?), another, very much openly nazi, party has won a seat.> >> > ** Neither the socialist nor the non-socialist side won a majority on > > their own, so the solution, as it looks right now, will be a minority > > government always at risk of having to rely on the SD-party. I know > > they say *now* they will never ever do that, but we have yet to see > > that in actual day to day politics, when they need a majority vote in > > the parliament. One can always hope, of course.> >> >> >>