Political parties with misleading names

[DavidB.]

The Portuguese Social Democratic Party.

[DavidB.]

Let's please not make this thread a hackery thread.

[DavidB.]

The Progress Party - racist pseudo-Libertarians

Could you elaborate on why you think they are racist? Do SD, DF, and PS also qualify as such for you If not, what is the difference between these parties and Frp in regards to racism? I know about their economic right-wing views, but I haven't noticed any remarkable racist stances. I'm genuinely interested (though this is probably slightly off-topic).

[DavidB.]

The Progress Party - racist pseudo-Libertarians

Could you elaborate on why you think they are racist? Do SD, DF, and PS also qualify as such for you If not, what is the difference between these parties and Frp in regards to racism? I know about their economic right-wing views, but I haven't noticed any remarkable racist stances. I'm genuinely interested (though this is probably slightly off-topic).

I think Politicus is refering to a Danish party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Party_%28Denmark%29) , rather than the Norwegian one, which is described as "quasi-libertarian xenophobes turned generic Conservative and populist." :-) It still exists, but is more important historically, as the predecessor of DF. As the predessor of DF it had and have many shared views, though with a stronger focus on lower taxes rather than less foreigners.

Aaaah. Got it, thanks. I know about the Danish Progress Party, just thought politicus was talking about the Norwegian Frp, which was obviously not the case.

[DavidB.]

You're right, I didn't read it well.

On-topic: the Japanese Liberal Democrats might qualify, at least for a Westerner. Sure, they're free market liberals and they are in favour of a representative democracy, but when thinking of Lib Dems you don't immediately think of a nationalist big-tent right-wing party.

[DavidB.]

The Dutch Center Party (later Center Party '86) also comes to mind, as well as its short-lived splitoff, the Center Democrats. These parties were not the moderate-heroic centrist parties or agrarians' parties one would think they would be - they were far-right neo-nazi parties. CP'86 decided to make the German NPD's party chapter its own... CP'86 was banned in 1998.

[DavidB.]

In the second category there are some very elitist Peoples Parties around.

The Dutch VVD would have qualified in its early days and still has a hard time shaking off this image. For some (mainly for working-class people), the party still carries this stigma, and it doesn't help that many of the VVD's top-ranking members are visibly upper class. Even though the party has to some degree managed to get rid of this by taking populist law and order stances in the last two elections, the image of the elitist party always comes back to haunt the VVD in times when it's less popular - like now.

In this respect, the comparison between the UK Conservatives and the Dutch VVD is quite striking, also because the VVD is the heir to the (religiously-mildly-protestant-politically-liberal) ruling elite in the nineteenth century, and Mark Rutte exactly fits this description. (Even though Dutch pillarization has later in time caused many differences between Dutch and UK elites, in terms of elite ties to religion - but still, the comparison partly stands.)

Then theres the Party for Freedom.

Now you're entering "I don't agree with this party so its name is wrong" territory. Freedom can be interpreted in so many ways. One could disagree with the PVV's interpretation of freedom, but its name isn't misleading in and of itself.

[DavidB.]

Has anybody heard of the "Worker' Party of Social Justice" of Czech Republic? Apparantly they aren't, as, err, Tumblr as you may think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_Party_(Czech_Republic)

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The women in this party can be considered feminazis?