Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

Political ideologies
Political ideologies are views on how we best live together. As classical ideologies counts conservatism,
liberalism and socialism (see table 1). All political parties have some form of ideology that constitutes the
basis of their positions. Often it is a mix between any of the three major ideologies and the partys own
heart issues. The practice of the ideologies changes, of course, to some extent the whole time due to e.g.
social, technological and political contentious issues of the day. But despite that, still today the classical
ideologies characterizes our parties real politics to quite a large extent. And it's really on a certain ideology
that each voter vote. For no party program, regardless of how detailed it is, can include all decisions that
will be taken during the coming term.
Table 1. Conservatisms, liberalisms and socialisms fundamental view on man.
Ideology
View on man
Conservatism Man has his evil and weak sides and these must be controlled. A single
person's intelligence is not sufficient to grasp all aspects of society.
People are unequal in most aspects. We have different intelligence,
different abilities and different talents. Thus, we also have different
roles and functions in society.
Liberalism
Socialism
All people regardless of class, gender, or race, have the means necessary
to take rational decisions that are the foundation of individual freedom.
All people can take responsibility for themselves. Therefore, the
Individuals should be freed from government control and regulation.
Man is shaped by the social environment. Inequality exists as long as
society is organized in an unequal manner.
Each of these ideologies have its naturally points and to some extent they are self fulfilling. The
conservative ideology, for example, emphasizes rewarding the talented, which has the advantage that it
creates incentives for people to fight and it will to some extent benefit the whole community. This basic is
yet clearly noticeable in today's real politics under the conservative rule in Sweden and Stockholm,
including that:
School = Grades in younger ages and elite classes do, according to the conservative, that the children will
make more effort and that the country will receive a competitive elite. Furthermore, some are suited to do
the thinking while others to do the hard work, and thus vocational education should be short and focused
entirely on practical work.
Health care = "All" may open clinics and compete for patients, then elite concepts will crystallize for the
benefit of all.
Transport = Increase the tariffs in the Stockholm public transport, ecspecially for those who trawells longer
distances, and unwillingness to invest in large-scale collective solutions as new subway lines. Favors those
who manage to arrange it so well that live near their work and/or invest in their own car, on behalf of those
who rely on community solutions.
Household economy = poor areas in the city will now receive relatively less money to help the needy.
Because it's better that everyone gets the same part of the cake than that the poor receive more, as the latter
is not deserving more. For those who don´t make enough money too meet their needs, there is always the
possibility of working overtime and with government subsidies let someone else do some of the
housework. Tax credits for those who work is a carrot to get more people to into work instead of exploiting
society and live as, for example, retired. Reduced corporate tax favors those who really make an effort,
namely the business owners. And it makes people shape up and start their own business, instead of relying
on the work that others have created.
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