Reply #20: Yes, we're pretty glad right now.

[KitSileya]

We've been eagerly awaiting this switch back to a red (red-green) government. But it is worrying that the Progress Party is now the largest non-socialist party, as it is a populistic party so blue it's almost brown. They've snowed a lot of Norwegians with the promises to use oil money to fund their campaign promises, but everybody agrees that were the money in the petroleum fund to be used more than sparingly, inflation would be rampant. They are very anti-immigration, anti-foreign aid, in short, so much focused on taking care of only Norwegians that the conservative parties dismissed the chance to grab power by co-operating with them even when the polls showed the right side had a majority.

But 1/5th of all Norwegians voted for these people, and that is very worrying. They don't realize how good they have it, simply put. Of course there are things that need to be corrected, and the prioritizing will be different with a socialist government, but the great majority cannot fathom how well they live, and how safely they live, in comparison to the majority of the world's population. They only compare themselves with the rich (whose numbers have grown in the last 4 years) and disregard the fact that they live in a country that most only dream of.