I mind them (FI), they are a single issue party, which place itself in niche, which are already full. Single issue parties are almost always bad news (through sometimes they're sadly necessary) and when their issue are already embraced by other parties, they tend to be extremists of the worst kind, and the kind of people who votes for that kind of party are the most irritating selfrightious smug douches, you will ever meet.
Most Swedish artists - ABBA-Benny included - seem to be ready to vote for the party, so in that case most Swedish artists are irritating selfrightious smug extremist douches. If that's your opinion, you're entitled to one.
Love the argument, next you will surprise me with the facts that capitalists are greedy, bikers are violent and priests are religious.
Edit: ...and this was not a dig against the Swedes, as I don't see other countries artist as better.
I take it you don't particularily appreciate music or arts in its more wider form.
I appriciate much of it, I just don't think the ability to sing, play music, paint or write books, give you any greater political insight. I also think that it take a special kind of narcissism to seek the attention of being an artist, and if you're a successful artist you will spend years with few monetary needs, surrounded by yes men and brown noses. Which is never healthy for how ones political views develop (see Tom Clancy and Jan Guillou), no one develop smart thoughts if everyone keep agreeing with you and tell how right you are.
I guess we have diamentrically different views on artists then. 
For me they're the most intellectual, clear-sighted people there is, in sharp contrast to many other parts of society. Without artists, there would be no John Lennon or Imagine for instance, just to take the most famous of a trillion examples. Artists dear to dream about the future in a way that other people even don't have the luxury to do (not enough time) or don't have the mental capacity to do.
Well I guess that's a disagreement, I personal think that experience and knowledge give you political insight, and I'm very grateful that it was not artists like Tom Clancy which decided the American anti-terror policies.
No idea who Tom Clancy is to be honest. Apparently he's not a big name internationally.
...
...
Yes he is a big name internationally, a very big name internationally.
But Michael Crichton (writer of the of the Jurassic Park) is writing the climate policies in the US
"Together with climate scientists, Crichton was invited to testify before the Senate in September 2005, as an expert witness on global warming.[70] The speech was delivered to the Committee on Environment and Public Works in Washington, D.C."
But back to the topic, the Left seems to be quite desperate about losing votes to the F! and their youth wing is having t-shirts saying "feminist, socialist, activist". I know that is one of their core ideas nowadays but I think that the rise of F! has made the order of the words.
