Amanda Lind has been on the move and told that the Green Party believes that there is a ceiling for growth. It is more of a clarification than a novelty and in the past the party promised not gold but green forests. If you wanted a rich country, you would vote for something else.
One side of that coin is all missed class trips, money for healthcare, defense and much more. A lot has been said there and it is an important aspect. However, the question is broader.
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The Green Party is too small to have power on its own. Their power lies in playing off the blocks against each other and negotiating well. That’s what they’re good at. The damage they have caused to Sweden and the Swedish economy is disproportionately large for such a small party.
But let’s start at the other end – with the Center Party. It is a party that absolutely says no to the Tidöparties but at the same time claims to be the best party for business and entrepreneurship. A cocky attitude and about as realistic as Demirok’s attempt to appear as a squatter. The likelihood of getting a pro-business government with V, S and MP is even worse than appearing country by doing things with sticks or putting on boots and splashing in a ditch in suit trousers.
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Voting for the Center has to be seen in the light of their close peers and what those parties want. The Left Party wants to abolish capitalism completely, the Social Democrats think that the market should be a servant and the Green Party does not want growth. Perhaps the Center is driven by a pathological optimism, but more likely it is stupidity.
Shifts government power after the next election, Magdalena Andersson will step into a maternal role. Not like Mother Svea, but more like a single mother whose life is essentially about having to deal with rowdy children alone. The Center Party and the Green Party will take turns lying teary-eyed on the floor of Rosenbad and roaring that it is the wrong policy. It’s going to take a lot of biscuit chocolate to please those kids.
Politically, it is difficult because the less interconnected you are, and the more time that has to be spent on parties that are at odds, the less work can be done. It can be good, because far from everything the Social Democrats want is good. So maybe there is a strength in Andersson having to try to comfort his small parties. But it is more likely that it will instead be two sides that get their worst sides through. In the same way as with Kakabaveh.
It is strangely silent about Andersson’s problems, and also the Center Party’s problems, as well as with the government documents that appear to be the alternative to Tidö. Given how far apart they are, it should be a treat for political scientists and economists alike, as well as editorial writers and journalists.
Just take such an issue as re-industrializing Norrland. The whole idea there is that by pouring tax money over companies, growth should be boosted. Where does the Green Party stand there? Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson’s hat changes between being a mining lobbyist and sitting in the government have gone so fast that the Riksdag finally had to pull the emergency brake. How will Andersson stand in the apparent power struggle between Norrland’s mining dreams and the environmental party’s untouched land?
There is a great breadth of questions there if you want to dig. Not least for the Center Party, the party appears to have been very badly chosen. For Andersson, every move from her support party appears like a migraine attack in the making. At the same time, all radicalization of the Green Party is grateful. They show themselves how unreasonable they are.
It is also a bonus that they show how problematic Andersson’s idea of governing Sweden is.
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