Congratulations, America! \o/

[luzula]

I love seeing all the joy pouring out on my flist.

It makes me all thinky, about the differences between my country and yours. We're so awfully sedate in Sweden. We do not have huge rallies with people shouting their hearts out. Everyone just goes in a quiet and orderly way to leave their votes.

Of course, in other ways I'm not envious of your political landscape--your whole political scale is shifted to the right compared to ours. The Democrats are a lot like some of our right-wing parties. We're far from being a socialist country, though--basically, we're a Social Democrat country, or we were for a lot of years. It's been eroding for a couple of decades, though, and economic neo-liberalism is making inroads, which sucks.

So yeah, I could wish for some of that fire. &hearts

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[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

The Democrats are a lot like some of our right-wing parties.

Isn't that funny? I was watching all the ads and accusations by the GOP that "Obama is a socialist," and all I could think was, "I know what socialism is, and his ideas are SO not socialism!"

[luzula]

Yeah, I heard that accusation too, and kind of snickered.