Comedian Jonathan Pie shows with pinpoint brilliance in the video below how Trickle-down economics with his mantra: "Help the rich! Punish the poor!” not working. Trickle-down economics does not build a strong economy nor a strong welfare. Put simply, it leads to a very difficult existence for those who have the least. Even many high achievers…
Category: Election strategy
How to save equality and the environment/nature all over the world
Global equality and the environment - how do we save these? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic theory that proposes that governments with their own currency have the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on desirable sectors of the economy. Sustainably productive investments increase budget space According to MMT, government spending is limited by inflation and not by public debt....
Post-election analysis: communication, freedom under responsibility and equality
According to Red Justice's post-election analysis, the broad left including the Social Democrats must improve on communication, freedom under responsibility and equality.
The left party for welfare, climate and industry
First: the public sector must take back control of welfare from the market. It is when politics takes responsibility that we can have functioning care, school and care, full employment and secure jobs. Ever since the 1990s, both s and m governments have privatized and introduced market systems. The Left Party stopped the latest such attempts when they dropped the proposal to…
The moderates threaten wage growth and productivity
The moderates threaten the wage trend. "In 100 days, the Moderates will implement a major reform package if they win the election, the Moderates' party leader Ulf Kristersson promised the other day. The A-fund must be reduced, a further time limit must be reintroduced in the health insurance, the activity support must be reduced as well as the multiple-child allowance."
What are the block options in 2022?
What are the block options in 2022? Maybe there will be clearer election campaigns, the closer we get to the election. But what are the electoral issues among the red-greens and the right if you look at the politics of recent years? Lina Stenberg for Dagens Arena has tried to explain this by reading the parliamentary motions. I have made my own additions especially if they are red-green…
Is welfare the problem or that the elite own more and more
Sweden will have 2022 billionaires in 542. During the pandemic, the number increased by 336. 81 of its billionaires are dollar billionaires and together own 49% of Sweden's GDP. (Aftonbladet) In Sweden, the number of dollar millionaires in 2021 had increased by 7,7% to 153 in two years. (Aftonbladet)
The right tries to blame post-Covid inflation on welfare and deficit policies
Our inflation post-Covid, the right tries to blame welfare and deficit policy. Just like in the 1970s. The Wall Street Journal says that the national economists will now have to reevaluate their view of the national economy after Covid. Just like after the financial crisis of 2008. But this is calm according to the right because the crisis today with higher inflation is reminiscent of the one in the 1970s and therefore know…
Equality builds power
Equality builds the strong society. Why should low-paid workers, those looking for work, those born with a disability or those whose working life is cut off live significantly differently from ordinary people. And why should ordinary people be significantly worse off than the rich? We red-greens must believe in freedom under responsibility and equality if people are to vote...
Strategy for the Social Democrats to win the 2026 election
A new strategy is needed for the Social Democrats. We need to create good jobs at all levels for everyone. We must stop the price of gasoline from reaching ever-escalating heights. We must offer everyone good social security and pensions. We have to regulate social security and pensions by price and wage indices. We must eliminate the lack of good, cheap and beautiful rental properties. The lack…