Ever get tired of hearing THAT old chestnut fall from the tree of liberal knowledge?
Today, the Sweden Democrats (source HERE... sorry, couldn't find an English version of the party site) won 5.7% of the vote in their general election, and the most conservative, "right-wing" party in Sweden is now officially part of the parliamentary government.
These people are NOT "libertarians" by any stretch of the imagination, but they are NOT socialists, either... and the simple fact that they have made a 240% increase in their voter base in just 4 years is damn-near amazing. This is as close as Sweden gets to a "Tea Party", I guess... but it should go to show that the movement away from larger-than-life intrusive government taxation and massive spending is happening even in the much-vaunted European theater of "socialism-lite" that the liberals in this country so often employ as an example.
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