Once More Across Finland ....

Dear Søren,

I am very hopeful for the coming EU elections. According to polls the True Finns party may get a land slide victory in the elections. The party’s chairman, Mr. Timo Soini, is a charismatic speaker and he has managed to get even the media on his side—thanks to the massive media attention Mr. Soini is the best known of all candidates for the European Parliament.

Mr. Soini, according to his own words is a populist and not a nationalist. He once said that he doesn’t even like politicians like Jean Marie LePen etc. which is why the media likes him so much—- he is not a bad guy in the eyes of the liberal media—the main target for Mr. Soini’s rhetoric is always the European Union but not immigration, something the liberal media can live with.

Mr. Soini has to walk on a tight rope, though, when it comes to “xenophobia” and nationalism since it is obvious that the True Finns party is full of nationalists. Mr. Soini cannot publically accept their ideas but cannot purge the party from the nationalist elements either because that would tear the party apart. Mr. Soini is now in a tight spot as the media expects him to officially attack the nationalists.

The growing popularity of the True Finns party is a good indication that the mood is changing in Finland—the interesting thing is that as major parties notice this they are tempted to become more nationalist and populist when it comes to immigration and multiculturalism—it will be interesting to see where all this will finally take us.

Yours
Kai

Posted by Søren Renner on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 11:08 AM in
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Posted by Guessedworker on May 26, 2009, 04:47 PM | #

Where all this (political incrementalism) takes us is the crunch point between the ethnic interests of the people and the power interests of the elites. The ethnic interests of Europeans are not recognised in a liberal system. It is reasonable, therefore, to expect that the nationalists in Soini’s party will be forced to choose between working in the system for the good of the Finnish people and working against the system.

This is the question facing all non-liberals. Can an anti-liberal goal be achieved without anti-liberalism?

Posted by CullTheDumbest on May 27, 2009, 11:56 PM | #

It’s a matter of leadership strategies. Broadly defined, this is a choice of any combination of transformational and transactional methods. Traditional leadership opposes liberalism, so this method will not fit your parameters. Soini seems to be taking a temporary transformational path, which is to say, charismatic, which always in liberal modern society evolves into a bureaucratic function.

The problem with nationalists thus far is their complete failure to identify and take advantage of the transactional state, which is bureaucratic, meaning getting all your people into public posts as a functionary bloc having overwhelming veto or rubber stamp power. OTOH the liberals (bolsheviks, etc.) have long had a handle on the transactional leadership stage, but they’ve been clueless about transformational leadership with the sole recent refreshing (for them) exception of President Obama.

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