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Finland Proper Region largest party map. Turku with suburbs Coalition, rural muncipalities Center, Industrial regions Social Democrats and the Archipelago muncipalities Swedish Peoples' Party. Quite typical for Southern Finland.
If we had a prominent racist party here, be sure it'd be concentrated in the dregs of the rural Deep South, northeast Texas, northern Florida, and the rural Intermountain West, where Republican support is strongest. You have to be familiar with their dog whistle politics to know what they really say
The True Finns got their lowest turnout nationwide in Helsinki and Turku in the last municipal elections, and the only big city with a big immigrant population where they had success was Vantaa... Oddly enough, the less immigrants, the better the True Finns do.
Current council here:
National Coalition (center-right) 25.8%
Social democrats 20.3%
Greens 14.5%
Left Alliance (radical left) 13.4%
True Finns 9.2%
Centre Party (decentralization, agrarianism, centrism) 5.9%
Swedish Peoples' Party (Swedish language, center-right) 5.3%
Christian Democrats (Tea Party) 2.0% Independent Fascist 1.8%
Communists 0.7%
I'm not very worried.
There's an independent Fascist party?! Usually fascist is just used as a negative label, or just not desirable just not desirable. How radical left is the radical left party? I assume the communist party is not truly communist, or perhaps it describes itself as communist because as well be pure and extreme since they can't get much votes. I'm jealous: our parties are boring, just Democratic and Republican Party [doesn't mean the politics are boring].
Here's our states voting patterns. The rural pattern is completely atypical of the US:
More interesting division can be found for ballot questions. What areas opposed legalizing euthanasia? Decriminalizing marijuana? Repeal alcohol sales taxes?
There's an independent Fascist party?! Usually fascist is just used as a negative label, or just not desirable just not desirable. How radical left is the radical left party? I assume the communist party is not truly communist, or perhaps it describes itself as communist because as well be pure and extreme since they can't get much votes. I'm jealous: our parties are boring, just Democratic and Republican Party [doesn't mean the politics are boring].
It was a independent person who have been in municipal politics for 30 years or so. He had a party with right-extremists and former neo-nazis, but it was disbanded due to poor support. He has for example said that if an African rapist encounters him, he will castrate the person, claimed that people defending Islam or not doing military service are traitors, and if he encounters a proponent of halal-butchery he will ritually butcher them... He's a extremist, no doubt.
The Radical Left is yes, radical on an American scale, but would be quite mainstream in France or Italy. The Marxist faction is tiny, and it's more a eco-socialist liberal party. They don't oppose capitalism, but wants to curb it (except for small businesses) and want a lot of government control. Hipsters from cities and blue-collar grunts often vote for this party. They are an alternative for the Social Democrats, which is economically on an European scale quite right-minded.
The communists are pure euro-communists, who oppose almost all capitalism, EU, Euro, the bourgeoisie and US. But nobody really takes them seriously.
Look at my plane going to New York. Isn't it so small....
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Oddly enough, the less immigrants, the better the True Finns do.
He's a extremist, no doubt.
