Slovenia is rising: What SDS offers and how it differs from the left

By: A. G.

The Slovenian Democratic Party has prepared for voters a set of 20 highlights about what SDS offers to the Slovenian voter and what the transitional left offers. “Until the elections, the Slovenian Democratic Party is building a coalition with the voters. Slovenia is rising, the sky is clearing, and the Slovenian voter will have a clear picture in front of them at the polling station,” they wrote.

The highlights show what the Slovenian voter can expect from SDS and what they can expect from the left, which in this term consists of the Freedom Movement, the Social Democrats, and Levica. “The distinction is simple,” they say.

1. The left builds on envy; we build on ambition. Instead of resentment and envy, we offer ambition. Desire. Effort. Opportunity. Having a reason to get up in the morning with a goal and motivation. The conviction that with good work and effort we can succeed. We create so that our descendants will be better off than we were. We create things we are proud of. Things future generations will be proud of. We are building Slovenia.
2. The left forces us to move forward only at the speed of the slowest in the class. We advocate for the speed that an individual or a company is capable of achieving. For those who, despite working or due to misfortune, fall below the poverty line, we help with a social safety net, not by slowing down the faster ones because of their slower pace.
3. The left wants as many people dependent on the state as possible. We want as many independent, sovereign individuals as possible.
4. The left strives for a situation in which, in the end, everyone has minimum wages. We fight for everyone’s wages to be higher. We advocate meritocracy and payment according to work and work results. There is no progress without competition.
5. The left wants to tax all those who have saved and invested in their own apartments and houses. We oppose this and create conditions in which as many individuals as possible can build their own roof and their own home.
6. The left advocates a utopian, anti‑scientific green policy that destroys our industry and the country’s energy independence. We advocate reasonable environmental protection policies that enable both prosperity and a healthy natural living environment, and that increase the country’s energy self‑sufficiency.
7. The left claims that exporters are the Achilles’ heel of the Slovenian economy. We say that the Achilles’ heel of Slovenian development is leftists.
8. The left additionally taxes entrepreneurs, the prime minister sends them to Croatia, and some would even drive them into the sea with bayonets. We advocate more favourable conditions for domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investments, which alone ultimately bring more money for wages, for development, and for common needs.
9. The left strengthens the centralisation of the state and financially impoverishes municipalities. We advocate decentralisation and the financial independence of municipalities, which, together with the Slovenian economy, are a key factor of stability in the country.
10. The left has significantly increased the number of ministries and other units of public administration and bureaucracy. We advocate a lean state, reasonable taxes, quality public‑administration services, and rewards based on work and performance.
11. The most common excuse of the left for not doing something is that the conditions are not yet right. That they need more time. Always more time. Two terms. We say that conditions must be created. Where they see problems and look for excuses, we recognise opportunities. It is always the right time for knowledge, work, and beauty. For ambition. For creation.
12. The left talks about unleashing creativity and talent. In reality, it has never achieved this anywhere, because it kills everything with equalisation. We advocate meritocracy and payment according to work and success, which alone unleashes creativity and talents.
13. The left demands changes because of ideology; SDS advocates those changes that improve people’s situation.
14. The left constantly pushes minority rights to the forefront. Only and exclusively minority rights. It artificially pushes minorities into confrontation with the majority. For us, all rights and the rights of everyone are important. Both of minorities and of the majority. Without harmful confrontation.
15. Since the publication of the Communist Manifesto, the left has been striving to dismantle the family, the nation, private property, and faith. We defend the family as the fundamental cell of society and the homeland as our common home. We value our homeland. We value our culture and tradition. We are grateful to our ancestors for what they created. We are respectful of their efforts, their faith, and their laws. We are forgiving of their actions, as we expect the same attitude from our descendants.
16. The left defends its adjusted version of history; we do not concern ourselves with that. We create history. They say that without the so‑called National Liberation Struggle there would be no independent Slovenia. We value every individual who, in the last century, resisted fascism, National Socialism, or communism. But we know that independent Slovenia and the Slovenian state certainly and demonstrably would not exist without the independence process, which united the nation. The values of Slovenian independence are therefore the value‑centre of the Slovenian nation and the foundation on which Slovenia stands. We do not defend the past; we build the future.
17. The transitional left sees the solution to Slovenia’s and Europe’s demographic problem in immigration. At the same time, it sends Slovenian entrepreneurs abroad. One of the first moves of Golob’s government was the abolition of the Office for Demography in Maribor and the statement that illegal migration should be equated with legal migration. Under the guise of false solidarity with our money, left‑wing policy is thus changing the image of Slovenia and with it the structure of the electorate, which is the final goal of this anti‑national policy. SDS sees the solution in raising prosperity, increasing joy for life, and increasing birth rates. We place the Slovenian family at the forefront as the fundamental cell of society. For the nation and the state, the family is, from both a national and economic perspective, an investment project for the future and not merely part of social policy. Therefore, we do not accept the government’s actions that spend twice as much taxpayer money on an illegal migrant as the amount of the minimum wage of a Slovenian worker. Such a policy attracts foreigners from the most distant cultures to Slovenia, while impoverishing the economy and the population and driving young Slovenian women and men abroad in search of a livelihood.
18. The left increases bureaucracy day by day. We will remove bureaucratic obstacles. We will build a relaxed Slovenia that will not be based on regulations, but on common sense, healthy competitiveness, and responsibility.
19. The advantages of the left in political struggle lie in the fact that they appear everywhere with the same slogans. Equality. Social justice. Envy. Resentment. Someone else is to blame that you are not better off. The same misguided answers to different questions. And constant repetition of the same banalities everywhere. At the same time, they force us to deal with artificial dilemmas for which we have always known the answers. How many sexes there are. We know this at every birth, since humanity exists. Yet they force us to waste time on these stupidities. With this, they humiliate science and deny the fundamental achievements of the Enlightenment. SDS defends science.
20. The essence of the long‑term programme of SDS is not slogans, but the prosperity of the Slovenian person. SDS will fight for every individual who is prevented from having equal starting opportunities for success and happiness in life by centralised management, privileges of the first‑class, various bureaucratic obstacles, unequal treatment, bureaucratic harassment, long court procedures, the ignorance of social‑state institutions, etc.

SDS will fight for everyone

SDS further emphasises that it will fight for everyone who, because of the current situation in their own homeland, feels like a second‑class citizen. For every child who has the will and ability but, due to family circumstances, cannot attend an appropriate school; for every high‑school or university student who has unjustly been left without sufficient scholarship support; for every worker whose work is overtaxed; for every entrepreneur who is unjustly harassed by the tax administration; for every farmer who provides healthy food and maintains the orderliness and settlement of our countryside and mountain regions; for every family that is being pushed toward the social margin through no fault of their own; and for every public‑sector employee who performs the work of others for the same pay because others exploit rigid labour legislation.

SDS will also fight for the rights of every worker and pensioner who today receives a wage or pension that is twice as low as the cost of one illegal migrant who has applied for asylum in Slovenia. It will likewise not remain silent about the difficulties of people with disabilities, whose survival is endangered while funds flow abroad, for example to Kladuša and Palestine.

The goal of SDS is for Slovenia to become a place of justice and a home where every Slovenian and every loyal citizen feels safe and accepted. Those who work well and manage well, who create new quality jobs and are innovative – those who truly build the future of Slovenia – will come to the forefront of social attention.