Category Archives: Rasmus Paludan

It was once pointed out to me, that running for office if you are principled, is not a waste of time even if you lose. If you get a substantial number of votes because of your platform, one which might have been ignored by the usual political class, then you might discover that politics and policy start to swing your way even though you didn’t win. Because in a democracy, like Denmark, the government is afraid of the people, and if not afraid of the people, afraid of losing power, and so try and accommodate the people.

Contrast that with a non-democratic state like the UK where the people are afraid of the government and if you transmit information that the government does not approve of, irrespective fo the truth of it, you may face and endless series of Orwellian trials based on selectively enforced application of ludicrous laws. Or worse, as the poet said, “If the government doesn’t like the people, they should dissolve the people and elect a new people”. Something Germany clearly did.

Meanwhile in Denmark:

a new initiative by the new government. Migrants are being offered a fair chunk of cash if they pack up and leave Denmark voluntarily. Below, a segment of this article with a Google translation:

Up to 64,100 people resident in Denmark, this summer may receive a letter or otherwise be informed that they meet the requirements for bringing money with them if they go home to the country from which they or at least one of their parents comes from. .

 

It is a result of the agreement that was concluded between the then government and the Danish People’s Party in connection with the latest Finance Act.

 

Although the so-called repatriation support – which gives returning persons DKK 140,000 – has existed for several years, it is the first time that the municipalities have been instructed to guide possible recipients about the scheme.

And it has dropped the Radicals for the chest. Andreas Steenberg, who is the party’s foreign minister, calls it “pure harassment”.

 

“We do not mind having a repatriation scheme for refugees who have not been here for a long time, but it is crazy to send that kind to people who have lived here all their lives,” he told Berlingske.

In other words, the government of Denmark is ready to pay heapum big cash to encourage people who otherwise would cost them a lot more in the medium and long run, to go home and live large on that money. Certainly a step in the right direction and certainly something none of us expected any Western government to do, and doubly so in the EU.

This has to be a result of the spectacular and unexpected success of Rasmus Paludan’s new party, Stram Kurs. (Hard Line) Although he won no seats based on Danish election rules, he did get enough votes to coming very close to having 6 seats in the Danish parliament. And one might guess that the government took notice and did what any democracy should do. Implement the policies that people voted for.

So anyone else thinking of running for office based on anti-totalitarian policies, namely anti-Islam and anti-communism, should be encouraged. You may get what you want, at least to a degree, even if you don’t win.

In the case of Denmark, calling it the Rasmus effect, or the Paludan effect, would be a fair and proper moniker.

Eeyore for VladTepesBlog.