Daily Stormer
February 1, 2015
Some of you may remember doing fake elections in school. Generally, youths tend to vote along with whatever they’ve been indoctrinated with, as they haven’t had time to develop their own beliefs. Not so in Denmark. When eighth and ninth graders across the country were asked who they’d like to see in power, right parties were victorious in 78 of the 98 municipalities.
In a first-of-its-kind mock parliamentary election among the nation’s eighth and ninth graders, the centre-right parties ran away with the victory, collecting 57.9 percent of the vote to the centre-left parties’ 42.1 percent.
The ‘blue bloc’ parties rode to victory in 79 of Denmark’s 98 municipalities, turning the national political map a resounding blue.
The preferred party of the 75,000 teenaged voters was Venstre, which earned 27.4 percent of the vote. There the students’ votes largely mirrored those of their parents, as former PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s party is also the largest amongst registered voters.
“Great to have the youth and Denmark’s largest political youth organization at my back when we will be heading into a parliamentary election before long,” Rasmussen wrote on Facebook.
PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s Social Democrats came in a distant second in the school election with 17.7 percent of the vote.
The libertarian Liberal Alliance had perhaps the strongest and most surprising result. The party pulled in 11 percent of the student vote, making it the third largest among young Danes and more than doubling the five percent of votes it received in the September 2011 election.
The runaway victory by the more conservative and right-leaning parties did not surprise Johannes Andersen, a professor at Aalborg University who specializes in youth and democracy.
“There is a current trend among young first-time voters aged 18 to 20 that also points in this direction. So the [student] election results indicate that there is not a lot of difference between the younger age group and first-time voters,” Andersen told Metroxpress.
Right at that age – early teens – is when people, particularly boys, begin to develop racist sentiment. So, given that this generation is being force integrated, it is hardly surprising they naturally lean right.