norsemaniacr at 2024-02-03 14:12:25+00:00 ID: koqkurh

They are a bit more complex than what I highlight here, but these things are their most core ideoligies i think:

Venstre is so synonymous with farmers that historically when farming shifted from small individual peasents/working class farms, to beeing large actual companies, Venstre shifted from being a left-party to a right-party (thought they kept their name; Venstre = left).

They have a lot of generic centre-right policies but they will go a long way and bend those for the sake of farmers rights.

Conservatives are ideologically the voice of the middle-class citizens, in an old-fashioned way. But they are quite bland/boring in many peoples eyes, so even though the middle-class living in middle-sized cities in one-family brick-houses with private-sektor middle-income jobs (Villa, Volvo, Vovse) are an abnormally large part of the voters, many of exactly those today vote more on single-issues that are important to them, rather than general ideology, so they have for years strugled to diffirentiate them from more populistic centre-right parties. Like if you think the biggest issue is immigrants, and you don't really care if its party 1, 2 or 3 that's in charge because it feels close to the same in the every-day life, you vote for those screaming "stop immigration".

Liberal Alliance is exactly trying to be a modern version of the old-school conservatives. One of their core values are "as little interference from the state as possible" but unlike the Conservatives they have much more bombastic approach to single-issues AND they are catering to the young centre-right voters. (They are the most active on SoMe of any party in Denmark and their core voters are aged 18-24 iirc).

Moderaterne is in some ways, like Danmarksdemokraterne, a person-party. It's Lars Løkkes new projekt. Their most pronounced ideology is in their name: To be more moderate. To take left and right ideologies into account when making decisions and trying to make the larger long-term policies in Denmark be "acceptable" for both traditionally left and right parties. The stated goal with this is to make the policies longer lasting without having them changed every election when a new government is elected, and more pronounced to reduce the influence of the furthest right and the furthes left as Lars Løkke feels they are to "extreme" to be solid long-term policies.

My personal view is that every one of them are willing to "sell out" on anything else than the above in order to get ministerial positions, and some (many?) would also sell out their core for that imo.