Sadly, this is changing. The police union, in league with certain right wing politicians from the parties Right and the Progress Party are trying to permanently arm Norwegian police in response to the perceived threat of Muslim terrorists. Never mind that the union spokesperson’s plea for arming fell on deaf ears after the gruesome terrorist act of a Christian right-wing ethnically Norwegian boy in 2001…
In addition the right-wing government is happily pushing their me-me-me policies with stuff like ‘help them over there’-programs instead of taking in more refugees, cutting taxes and welfare programs and selling our inheritance (forests, mining and fishing rights) to Russian oligarchs and other multinational corporations. Because according to their stated philosophy, the state shouldn’t own or govern anything at all…
I found myself voting for actual communists (Red) in this years elections because their leader was the only one who seemed sane and trustworthy.
So, don’t worry, we won’t be far behind on your slide into mdness…
