The Dread Slender Gnome on Nostr: This is a good example of what I talk about when I complain about how Finnish ...

This is a good example of what I talk about when I complain about how Finnish politics is just a matter of swapping the window dressings while selling exactly the same wares.

Both the supposed left and right are running essentially the same kind of politics, which can be boiled down to "the government can't afford x and the country must be competitive and attractive to businesses". NB, this is in a multi-party system with coalition governments being the norm, so that won't save you either.

And if the right establishes a fee or removes a tax from the rich while in government, no matter how much the left opposed the move at the time, you can bet your last roll of toilet paper that they won't lift a finger to reverse those decisions even if they get a majority government.

When all parties go by the same playbook, with merely tiny variations in style, politics is broken.