“We are smart independent thinkers”, they all nodded in unison
17th April 2011
The Finnish parliamentary elections coming up this weekend just keep on getting ever more hilarious, the desperation and anger of the watermelon Greens (the urban SWPL party that has long ago kicked out anyone who can tell a crow from a magpie) starting to boil over. The Greens are trying to frame this election as an epic battle between them as the cosmopolitan and enlightened forces of light versus those dumb and uneducated reactionaries (as somebody quipped, “We are intellectual opposites: we are intellectual, and you are the opposite”) who are trying to bitterly cling to an idealized past. I mean, that is pretty damn rich coming from the party whose every social, cultural and economic goal can essentially be summed up as return to the small tribal societies of the Pleistocene. Greens also like to bang their own drum of how “tolerant”, “humane” and “open-minded” they are towards different views, which is also quite hilarious in light of not only their open hatred of both sexual and speech freedoms of straight middle-aged men, but also the fact that despite 40% of their voters supporting nuclear power, not even one of their candidates supports nuclear power. I mean, really, with a couple hundred candidates across the nation, how astronomically long would the odds of such complete uniformity of thought be in a party of independent individuals?