You've crossed the line

Lo folks
Yesterday the swedish riksdag (the decision making body of the Kingdom of Sweden) refused to pass the (social democrat and environment party) government's budget, and passed the moderate/liberal oppositions coalitions budget. As a result of this the swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven promised that in december he will announce a new election (according to swedish constitution ha cannot formally announce it until three months after the previous election) to be held in March the 22 of next year (again in accordance with constitution he could at earliest slate in in february but he's pushing it back one more month to allow the second largest party the Moderate Conservatives time to elect a new leader after their previous leader, previous prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, resigned after he lost the election earlier this year).

Most of us knew this would happen, more on why later, and even with it looming the parties close to Löfven's government has been unwilling to open up any kind of dialogue, amongst them the liberal party that I myself am a supporting member of. Now I'm not saying the leftist government are entitled to the support of the centrists and liberals, they aren't, but I fail to see why listening to them would have been a bad thing. After all the conservatives that the liberals reigned with during the previous term (collectively known as the Alliance for Sweden, or derogatory as the bourgeoisie alliance) was no more liberals than the social democrats are. The liberals have reigned with the social democrats before and I hope they will do so again when it fits their agenda. This locking ourselves up in blocks is problematic since it pushes us towards a two party system that benefits no one.

That said this is not primarily their fault, the alliance (however little I may like it) proposed a coalition opposition budget and of course they will vote for that budget. No the ones to blame are the third block. The Swedish Democrats, isolationist, mercantilist,  cultural nationalists and value conservatives (derogatory usually referred to as racist, though granted that is an oversimplification).
Now you don't need me to tell you that their ideals and agenda is basically diametrically opposed to everything I stand for, I find them simplistic, ignorant, biased, shortsighted and overly fond of simple solutions to what is really complex issues. So naturally a lot of people love them. There will always be those ready to rally to the banner of "Those there are the enemy let's fight them" (granted that is true for the extreme left too).
But (ah that little word), I have regardless defended them from a lot of the flack they have received over the years, not because I agree with them, but because I believe in freedom of speech, I believe that if 13% of the swedish people vote for them, we need to respect that. Well that was true, up until yesterday. Up until then the Swedish Democrats for all their loathsome opinions have, parliamentary speaking, acted like professionals.
But in abandoning their own budget proposition and supporting the alliance they have also abandoned every pretense of being a serious party. Now some of you people will say "But hey Fredrik what if they liked the Alliance Budget", and you'd be right, if that was the case my point would be moot. But a statement they made two days ago when they promised they'd resort to this course of action blows that possibility out of the water. acting party leader Matthias Karlsson promised that the Sweden democrats would vote down any budget proposed by a government that did not cave to their demands of reduced immigration (they desire a 90% reduction).
I'm sorry... did but to me, that sounded awfully much like a threat, a threat of reprisal to anyone who does not give in to their demands.
You know I believe there is a word for that, it's called terrorism (albeit white collar one). And that's a line that once you've crossed you cannot come back from. I have been defending your right to express yourself, defended the task you've been given by the swedish people, but this is not it, you have made a mockery of the system and shown your true colour. I can see only one answer to that, as much as I am a fan of compromise, there can be only one course of action, this must be opposed whatever in every way possible. This is a declaration of war towards the establishment, and they think it will benefit them, but the truth is that they have given us the people who like me have been forced to shield them because of our belief in the democratic systems a perfectly good excuse not to.
And your declaration of war will not hurt the ones you oppose, no it'll hurt everyone, the swedish stock market will suffer from increased uncertainty, which by extension means that the economy of every person in Sweden will suffer. Funds that should've reached schools and welfare will be frozen. And any reforms by either side of the political spectrum, as well as the ability to react to things that happen, will have to wait six months to after the new election and the election of a new prime minister.

You may have pleased your angry young men demographic but you will find that crossing that line has cost you a lot, and you will not be able to get back over it, not easily at least. When you eventually get voted out of office you'll look back and you'll see this moment of petty as the turning point.