Tomorrow there is an election in Denmark. The populist Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti or DF) has released the below as their main campaign ad. This three minute video can teach you a lot about why SUST and DSE tackles immigration in Scandinavia.
I can't translate all of it, but here is the gist.
The Danish People's Party has put Denmark on the right course. But there is a threat. The welfare system can be saved if it is only for those who need welfare. The Danish People's Party will return Denmark to a safe harbor.
Around the 2 minute mark the film gets a little nuts. The film uses images from demonstrations in the UK, from the Danish cartoon controversy, from youth riots over the loss of a youth radical center, and a few other sources.
The Danish People's Party openly admits that it is racist. The party is the third largest in Denmark, though recently has suffered a bit. It generally polls between 12 and 18 % and has arguably been the most influential political party of the last twenty years though it has never been in government.
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I see the DF increased its representation in the parliament by one seat. Think the ad was a big factor in that?
I don't think this specific ad had much to do with it, because the ad represents pretty much the entire party platform and rhetoric. The party since it was founded in the early-90s as an offshoot of an earlier populist party has used language and images of Denmark being attacked by outsiders, specifically Muslims, and the need to preserve the welfare state for ethnic Danes. For now the party seems to be peaking, though it has gained seats in every election since it was founded. The positive thing about the rise of the DF and this open racism is that a large segment of the population has organized against it. While the "socialist" parties (including the labor or social democratic party) are still out of government the Socialist People's Party has doubled its representation from 11 to 23 seats in the parliament, comparable to the Danish People's Party (DF). Plus there has been a lot of anti-racist action going on. Most of these positive developments are centered in Copenhagen while the DF has found greater success among low-skill men in the countryside.
Also kinda funny story about Denmark: a couple months ago there was a PRO-tax rally that drew hundreds of thousands of folks.
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