Sweden Democrats One Step from Forming Own Government

Anti-Immigrant, Eurosceptic Sweden Democrats Set To Become Nation's 2nd Largest Party

The far-right, anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats (SD) party overtook the main right-wing opposition party in the polls on Monday ahead of the parliamentary elections on 11 September, becoming Sweden's second largest party general elections in September, Euroactiv reported.

According to the latest opinion poll from SVT/Novus, the Sweden Democrats are now the main challengers of Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s incumbent Social Democrats currently leading a minority government.

Sweden Democrats stood at 21.5%, compared to the Moderate’s 17.4%, pitting the eurosceptic party only behind the ruling Social Democrats, who stood at 27.8%.

Sweden Democrats are below their 2018 numbers when I wrote: Sweden Democrats On Verge of Becoming Largest Party in Sweden.

Back in 2015, I posted This One Chart Explains the Next 10 Years of Political Change. Events have taken longer than I anticipated, but it is happening. Minority parties have monopolies on the most important issues. The ruling class parties have circled the wagons in most nations, including the establishment GOP and Democrats in the USA.

The public either will or will not decide they've had enough of open borders, greens, taxes, warmongers and vaxx terrorists. If they don't, collapse can go on "forever" because there are always more people to tax or kill. It took the Russians 70 years to wake up from full socialism, China after 30 years, while Chile aborted the revolution in the cradle. Socialism is a better sell than the currency policy mix in my opinion, yet much of the Western public seems content with endless disasters judging by poll numbers.

If they decide enough is enough though, what's their choice? In many countries, there are maybe one or two choices. The parties and movements that are opposed to immigration, vaxx terrorism, unfettered free trade, green idiocy, lockdowns and wars are almost all out of power. They are either led by social pariahs like Trump or their leaders co-opt them and sell them out to further their own careers.

Parties such as Sweden Democrats are in what I consider the waiting room for power. Although the next 25 percent appears like a huge number, it won't be. When the public decides to change course, polls will shift massively because there are no alternatives. It is a binary situation, either it happens or it doesn't. Sweden is one of several countries where most parties say they won't allow a "far-right" party into a coalition. It is Sweden Democrats or bust if you are a Swedish voter demanding change. It the U.S. the situation is slightly different because the first-past-post party wins power. If the U.S. splintered into three parties, a populist MAGA party could theoretically win power if it was able to pull in disaffected left-wing voters.