It's election time in Norway, and as you all should know by now: I am an anarchist. I am opposed to the state, and I seek to abolish it.
However these goals are not entirely realistic, not in my lifetime anyway, and thus people seek to influence me to vote for some party or another in this election. As they have done so many times before. I certainly see their point: it would be nice to be able to participate in some way to make the world a better place.
Let's sum up the status quo of norwegian politics.
Norway is a parliamentary democracy with a puppet king. The power lies with the parliament, and it's power is divided among (currently) seven political parties. Three of these have allied themselves and formed a majority government. The Socialist Left Party, the Labour Party and the Center party (rural interest party really). These three parties have highly varied ideological platforms (no you dumb yankees, not all socialists are the same), ranging from semi revolutionary socialism, via centrist eurosocialism to reactionary isolationist nationalism. It's a small miracle how they manage to work together.
The opposition, consisting of the remaining four parties contain the Christian conservative party, the Social Liberal Party, The Conservative Party and the right leaning populist Progress Party (liberal party as they would call themselves - and again for the yankees, look up Milton Friedman and liberalism. You'll see that what you call liberal is a far pitch away from historical liberalism).
In addition we have two smaller parties who might win a seat in the coming election: a communist party called Red, and the Coast party, a strange party whose single real issue seems to be killing more seals and whales.
In reality, post election Norway will one of two governments: a collaboration between the conservatives and right wing populists (with a serious racist policy attached) or a the current coalition (which includes the wolf killing center party and the quite racist labour party). Fat chance I'll support any of those. So, how about the smaller parties?
Christian Conservatives? No, not likely.
Liberal party? Not really. They have an anti urban platform, are euro-sceptical, support ambigious nationalist language policies and are generally strange.
Communists? I'd rather emigrate?
Whale killers? Hahahaha.
I can't vote for any of these idiots. Even if I wanted to vote my choice would be between nine evils, out of which even the smallest evil is such a far cry from anything I support that it would burn an eternal stain on my very soul. All of these choices will make the world a worse place to live in, and I can't support that.
I'd rather have an unblemished moral than support any of these filthmongers. Retardcracy is for retards.