Far-right party close to causing huge political upset in Sweden's neck-and-neck election

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10. Regardless of whether the Red/Greens (LW) or the Blues (RW), the far right Sweden Democrats (SD) are

now the second biggest party here, supplanting the centre right to full right wing Moderates (M, who used to be called the Conservatives).

The only larger party is mine, the centre left to left Social Democrats (S).

We have, especially for our small size in terms of population (10.2 million or so), an incredibly complex political environment. I have written on it extensively here in the past, and shall endeavour to do so again once the dust settles and we see what coalition emerges with the narrow margin that gives them the whip hand over the levers of power in the Riksdag.

The political spectrum labels here are much more in synchronisation with the rest of the advanced world than the massively slid to the right US spectrum is. Many US Democrats would be considered centre right, with some being solid right.

No US Democrat in Congress would be considered far left. Many of the things and programmes that they support are supported by most all of the parties here (albeit to varying degrees, especially when it comes to privitisation, taxes, and deregulation, wtc).

The vast, vast majority of US Republicans are off the scales hard RW when measured on our (and many other nations') spectrum.

Another large difference is that the far RW SD, whilst containing multiple parts that make up a traditional hard RW party, diverge massively from the US Republicans on economics and their support for the folkhemmet (our expansive welfare state). Also, many in the far right here are very much anti-Russian, for centuries old reasons. We do have, of course, some vermin Putin lovers, but they are in the small minority.