The Swedish election

[Strike For The South]

That is never clever, not even in Texas

Does me saying muslim make you cringe?

Can a guy not make a comment? Do I have to spell everything out for everybody?

I am relativley surprised how smooth the Swedish elections have been going. When one juxtaposes this against the American circus and media frenzy, an American citizen can not help but be a bit worried by the hyperbolic nature of our own. It puts even more lines on ones face when many of the Swedish questions mimic the American ones. It's not as if they have less problems

[Fragony]

Do I have to spell everything out for everybody?

Better not since English is not my native language, it could confuse me. I guess your original point just got lost in translation;

I am relativley surprised how smooth the Swedish elections have been going. When one juxtaposes this against the American circus and media frenzy, an American citizen can not help but be a bit worried by the hyperbolic nature of our own. It puts even more lines on ones face when many of the Swedish questions mimic the American ones. It's not as if they have less problems

Que? "Where are the closet muslims? Where are the pregnant daughters?"

[Shibumi]

Does me saying muslim make you cringe?

Can a guy not make a comment? Do I have to spell everything out for everybody?

I am relativley surprised how smooth the Swedish elections have been going. When one juxtaposes this against the American circus and media frenzy, an American citizen can not help but be a bit worried by the hyperbolic nature of our own. It puts even more lines on ones face when many of the Swedish questions mimic the American ones. It's not as if they have less problems

Sorry if I didnt get you first time around, was a bit to vague for me.

But yes, the US elections seem to be a bit of a circus. I think part of it is due to the heavy weight put on the individuals shoulders, the presedential contenders and the ones running for governor.

The Swedish politicians are more in the background, never leaving an opening for, say, the Obama-wave that struck the US. The party is the main figure in the politics here, not the individual as such. And flinging dirt on a party is way harder, one might even say futile, compared to attacking individuals, specially since humans by nature always have some closet skeletons.

We had some scandals this election, but nothing that hurt the party as such. One minister got was hung out in media for having bought sex, he withdrew from his post, and that was about it. I doubt it hurt his party at all.

So yeah, I would say the frenzy in the states are due to individuals having a bigger role, along with broader media. Sweden still has rather limited media, the state run channels run most of the election show. This means medias need to create news (where there are none) is less. Of course, we have some media frenzy here too, and scaremongering and so on. But I guess we just care less.

I think the US politics could have much to win if the individual was less central in the campaigning, after all, it is his partys ideas that is what really matters. Politics should not be about who has a winning smile or not,but then, when trying to convince the stupid masses it works.