2019 Finnish parliamentary election results

[Jumi]

Really I don't get this sudden and upfront fear of and disliking of nationalism. It is today so obsolete it's foolish to promote it in an age of global connectedness and interdependence, but it certainly wasn't automatically hated and feared like this when I was younger (and that being during the later years of the Cold War and after, America promoted the hell out of nationalism then).

Nationalism gets a lot of unneeded bad press along with deserved criticism across the globe. Locally, many see that with the EU we're not appreciating our own culture as much as we used to, both good and bad are thrown out. Many reactionaries get a start out of something we're supposed to give up to be more European. We're a small minority in Europe who no one really cares about, it's quite possible that our culture and language will disappear since our language is very difficult to learn and our culture is based on introversion, lots of snow, sauna and grit.

That said, I don't really like the nationalist party here... their work is often counterproductive and they have more than their share of nuts, fundies and the like who are just getting elected on opportunity.