The greatest enemy of the Green Party – VG

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When the MDGs come together for a national gathering this Ramos weekend, the three Bs are likely to steal the spotlight: a car, beef, and drilling. We can also add a fourth: Party in the city.

How quickly and how should meat consumption be cut in half in Norway? Should advertising of meat be banned? Although the intensity should indicate otherwise, the vast majority agree on the goal of eating and producing less meat. But some respond to the vocabulary of the most assertive vegans. Others eat meat with pleasure and are even inclined to shoot their own food. But if there is something that generates emotions, it is when others lie down on what you put on the plate.

Therefore, this is a perfect case. The lines of conflict are clearer, commitment awakens and more and more central MDG voters are concerned about eating greener. Despite the village’s healthy adult men turning black at the thought of someone touching the meat and bacon, there is still a microscopic chance that they will vote for the MDGs.

Steak is the new car, without the car becoming a less explosive party theme. Road construction is falling. Tolls and taxes on vehicles will go up. Only the imagination limits the wealth of ideas when limiting the space of the car. How to label gas pumps with a warning that “the product contributes to dangerous climate change.”

The fact that car use should decrease is also not discussed in the party. But in the village, even the ODMs drive diesel cars and they don’t like the car being demonized. They want more nuance in both rhetoric and politics. They want a party that attracts more widely across the country. Not just a party in town.

It also illustrates the MDG dilemma. A sharper and more defined party is unpopular with many of the members, but it is more mobilizing for the voters.

If the MDGs are to win the elections, they must speak for the car, oil and meat. They must stand out from the rest of the matches. And they need enemies. That’s why it’s a gift pack when Frps Sylvi Listhaug attacks the ODM dream community.

They can probably thank the toll rebellion for doing so well in the last election. Then the MDGs became the obvious alternative with the main candidates Lan Marie Berg in Oslo as “toll eeeeelsker” and Thor Haakon Bakke in Bergen, who simply “hit a toll”. Even SV doesn’t talk so heatedly about car taxes because they know this also kicks people with bad advice who depend on cars.

If we turn the clock back a little over a year, to the good old days when we were all juicing, drinking beer outside, and stuffing herring into a keg, the future looked bright for the Green Party. They were stable during the 5 seconds in the measurements. Young people skipped school to strike for the climate, and the party had a tight grip on both the climate issue and young voters. The party also has power and more or less visible front figures in the larger cities where the large constituencies of voters live: Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Kristiansand, Stavanger and Tromsø. What can go wrong?

All right. For example, someone was in close contact with bats in China, a virus mutated, and suddenly the world was turned upside down. One might think that a party passionate about nature conservation, biodiversity, and animal welfare should have something to gain from a pandemic that may be related to human predation on nature. But few of us think so complicated.

Climate naturally becomes a little less important when people are concerned about life, health, and their own workplace. But equally important is the fact that MDG heart problems receive less attention. People are more concerned with what happens at work, how many guests they can have in the cabin, when grandpa gets the vaccine, and how long we have to have homeschooling.

If they fulfill the dream of finally overcoming the barrier, the party will be able to give a completely different color to Norwegian politics. A larger group with various profiles, such as Lan Marie Berg, Arild Hermstad from Hordaland, Kriss Rokkan Iversen from Troms, Ask Ibsen Lindal from Sør-Trøndelag, and a return from Rasmus Hansson, will automatically provide more breadth. The party must work on various issues and participate in various debates.

On the MDGs, they have long been victorious, but now several are concerned. The lot is most often measured below the limit of the barrier.

When they opened a wide open barn door this fall, saying they’d rather have a red-green government, they also got a little less interesting. Some believe they gave away an important bargaining chip. Competition for the same voters on the left is strong. Both SV and Rødt appear to be successful with skilled party leaders and clear profiles.

At the same time, many in the party are strongly provoked by the Center Party, which many refer to as a kind of “left-wing FRP.” Although both Sp and MDG can benefit each other as mutual enemies, this creates more turbulence on the red-green side.

In the worst case, the party could be left without its party leader Une Bastholm in the Storting. After changing county to Akershus, only Oslo’s top candidate, Lan Marie Berg, is bomb-proof in parliament. It can give the party a completely different profile than the unifying and beloved Bastholm, but not quite as sharp.

For four days, the party will discuss all conceivable and unimaginable aspects of the climate and the environment. The seed of an election winner is not the nuances of the MDG environmental policy, but the place that the environmental issue will have in the electoral campaign.