political tears.

[eska_rina]

It's no wonder the left-wing is in crisis, even though the Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten) is incredible popular at the moment. The left-wing project has lost its energy, its passion, its drama. It's not just the Social democrats (Socialdemokraterne) and Socialist People's Party (SF) who have sold out, it's the extreme left too - sold out to the

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[quadruplify]

Trust me, you do not want drama or theater in your politics -- otherwise, it'll turn into exactly like what we have here in the U.S. (Or on Tumblr, for that matter. :PPP) The very fact that politics directly affects people's lives should be a reason for level-headedness and civility; while passion can be very useful, it only causes more problems than solves them, human nature being what it is. I don't trust political demonstrations and grandstanding these days (in the West, anyway) not to turn into masturbatory noisefests like Occupy Wall Street. >_>;

[eska_rina]

What you see in the US isn't drama - it's childish behaviour. Drama is daring to not just create conflicts, but also to tackle conflicts, to handle them, to frame them - it's daring to create or to formulate tension. And we have both childish behaviour and drama in Danish politics - but it's on the right wing. Especially the neo-liberals and the nationalists have been really good at creating drama. Recently we have had some discussions about tax-evasions - something which has a history of being seen as anti-social and egocentric to us, yet the neo-liberals have dared to claim these people "are fighting against an unfair system", to try to make this into a good thing, into rebels. We don't see this on the left anymore.
Considering that the left-wing project is to deconstruct our system and create a new one, there is tension in the interaction between the left-wing and the system, but no one dares to formulate it, to express it. The left-wing project has been from day one about revolution, but this idea is slowly - but surely - being