Swedish politics: Green Party flusterlcuck edition!

[Viking]

So, couple of weeks ago an organization for Turks here in Sweden had a little demonstration in Stockholm, where one of the speakers referred to Armenians as "dogs who should all be shot". Present at this demonstration was Green Party member and Minister Of Housing Mehmet Kaplan, who have previously been connected to various extremist groups, including nationalist groups in Turkey, along with Islamist groups. Due to this, he was forced to resign last week.
http://www.thelocal.se/20160418/swedens-housing-minister-quits-after-row

This week, another of their members ended up in a bit of a bother after it was revealed that he refused to shake hands with women http://www.thelocal.se/20160423/swedish-politician-quits-after-refusing-to-shake-womens-hands
 - this as a member of a party who claims to be part of "the world's first feminist government", and whose platforms is based on the following:

participatory democracy, ecological wisdom, social justice, children's rights, circular economy, global justice, nonviolence, equality and feminism, animal rights, self-reliance and self-administration, freedom, and long-sightedness.

. And now the media, previously in bed with the Left Party & Green Party (The Green Party has about 7% of the votes in the election, but they are overrepresented among journalists) are hounding after them quite relentlessly. It's amusing to finally see their politicans facing some critical questions.

Also, one of the leaders of the party (they have two of them, always one male & one female) is also in hot water for referring to the 9/11 attacks as "accidents". When one considers this: http://www.thelocal.se/20160423/green-party-may-have-been-infiltrated-by-islamists-researcher , it's easy to think that this is simply the language used within the Green Party, and that she made an enormous gaffe by using that same language with outsiders. This is the same idiot who broke down crying last November after the government had to take the decision to cut down on the number of "refugees" accepted into the country.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3547291/Sweden-s-deputy-PM-sparks-outcry-describing-9-11-Twin-Towers-attack-September-11-accidents.html
 

[RoadKingLarry]

The world needs another major plague. Either the strong will survive and rebuild the world better or humanity doesn't deserve to continue.

[Perd Hapley]

You know what they say. "Cut open an environmentalist, and you'll find a Communist radical Muslim."

[makattak]

The world needs another major plague. Either the strong will survive and rebuild the world better or humanity doesn't deserve to continue.

There have been no major wars for "civilized" countries for 70+ years.

Additionally,  the U.S., specifically hasn't had a war in its homeland for 150+

I mention this because one theory about how Japan and Germany so quickly recovered from WWII is that while bombing their industry to dust,  we also did the same to their bureacracies.

After the war, industry recovered long before bureaucracy could.

Meanwhile,  in the U.S., ours has grown unchecked for over a century and a half...

[Scout26]

There have been no major wars for "civilized" countries for 70+ years.

Additionally,  the U.S., specifically hasn't had a war in its homeland for 150+

I mention this because one theory about how Japan and Germany so quickly recovered from WWII is that while bombing their industry to dust,  we also did the same to their bureacracies.

After the war, industry recovered long before bureaucracy could.

Meanwhile,  in the U.S., ours has grown unchecked for over a century and a half...

I'd be good with bombing our bureaucracy to dust every half-century or so...

[brimic]

You know what they say. "Cut open an environmentalist, and you'll find a Communist radical Muslim."

Good idea. Lets start cutting them open to see what jumps out.

[Jocassee]

If you put this kind of crap in a political novel it would be decried as completely unrealistic.

[MechAg94]

You know what they say. "Cut open an environmentalist, and you'll find a Communist radical Muslim."

I would say it demonstrates a poorly recognized truth that leftist leaders rarely believe the crap their followers do.