Valg er ikke for tøsedrenge.
Normalt er der ikke meget om politik og valg og den slags her på bloggen, men i dag gøres der en undtagelse.
Dette opslag vil blive en side under "de glemte sider" neders til højre - sammen med mine andre politiske opslag.
Medens valgresultatet på landsplan kun var ubehageligt, var valget ved mit lille valgsted endog overvældende uhyggeligt.
Først resultatet på landsplan.
Normalt er der ikke meget om politik og valg og den slags her på bloggen, men i dag gøres der en undtagelse.
Dette opslag vil blive en side under "de glemte sider" neders til højre - sammen med mine andre politiske opslag.
Medens valgresultatet på landsplan kun var ubehageligt, var valget ved mit lille valgsted endog overvældende uhyggeligt.
Først resultatet på landsplan.
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Elections aren’t for wimps.
Usually, there isn’t much about politics, elections and that sort of thing on this blog, but today I’m making an exception.
This post will maybe turn into a page under 'De glemte sider' (The Forgotten Pages) at the bottom right – along with my other political posts.
While the national election result was merely unpleasant, the election at my little polling station was downright scary.
First, the national picture
Det bliver en gyser, hvis jeg ser på mit 'hood.
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We usually say that around 20% of eligible voters are ‘grey votes’ – that is, votes cast either in protest or out of stupidity or similar reasons, and which go to a party that cannot be used to form a government. One example is Borgernes Parti (right wing populist - one man army). This time, that percentage is approaching 30. And the scary thing is just how high the populist and nationalist parties (O & Æ) have climbed.
The real horrors begin when I look at my neighbourhood:
Så priser jeg mig lykkelig over at vi i den grad ikke er normgivende for Danmark som helhed.
Hvis jeg kigger lidt mere intenst og måske endda mistroisk på mine naboer i den kommende tid, er det vist ikke så sært.
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To think that so many of the nice, ordinary people I greet when we go for a walk in the woods, empty the letterbox, celebrate Carnival at the village hall, and so on, actually vote for them. I find myself wondering: Who on earth are those 39 people who voted for O? And, and, and...
Then I count myself lucky that we are by no means representative of Denmark as a whole.
If I look a little more closely – and perhaps even suspiciously – at my neighbours in the coming days, it probably isn’t that strange.
It staggers the mind, trying to understand some people and how they think, or don’t think.
SvarSlet"Don't think" - migth be the answer. I wonder every time I see the election results. How can so many agree to these things?
SletI don't pay attention to individual vote getters, just care mostly about which party wins overall. In the end it doesn't make much difference, even with all the promises, nothing much ever changes, the rich stay rich, the poor become homeless and no one can afford electricity.
SvarSletThat is not how elections work here. The winner does not take it all, but all parties are represented proportional to their number of votes. Thus no party reigns alone - unless they get more thatn 50 % of all the cast votes of course. We have normally a conglomerate of parties - and often a minority government - and with the present, muddy result it's almost impossible to make a government without having the support of one or more of those "nasty" ones.
SletThe end result, that the richer becomes richer, and the poorer get even poorer is normally the given outcome here too, but the Danish system is quite robust here, and really a good one, homeless people are ... not really a thing, except for mentally ill and addicts. But that the immigrants and many other "not conforming groups" (for lack of words) are up for tougher times is given with those two having that many votes.
Jeg har bare SÅ lidt tilovers for dem, der stemmer O og Æ. Nok allermest ham Trump-wannabe'en. Han er jo direkte skræmmende!
SvarSletEn af mine bedste veninder stemmer meget forskelligt fra mig selv (vi snakker bare ikke ret meget politik), men jeg vil vove den påstand, at en der stemmer på et af de blåsorte partier, vil jeg have svært ved at være i stue sammen med, for vi må være virkelig fundamentalt forskellige i vores værdisæt.
Og ja, det bliver virkelig svært at danne en regering, og jeg synes, at alle under valgkampen fokuserede på mindre væsentlige ting, når der er så skrækkelig meget mere end normalt at forholde sig til ude i den store verden.
Ja, det er lige det, der er mit problem. Hvordan omgås man ellers pæne naboer, der stemmer på dem? Vi bor, som du kan se fra tallene, et meget lille sted - men det gør du vel også?
SletDu har helt ret i det der med de mindre væsentlige ting. Der er i den grad vigtigere ting at forholde sig til end store bededag - selv om det var så småligt at afskaffe den.