Posted on 05/24/2014 11:01:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s all shaping up to be a backlash vote; the response of the pro-autocracy politicians will be to try to crush dissent. I don’t think they’ll succeed. I also don’t think the Euroskeptic ascendancy will continue for long.
Either they are for bigger government, or smaller government and individual liberty. Most European “conservatives” are for bigger government. They are medievalists, no matter what they call themselves. Even so-called socialists are actually medievalists, believing in some sort of feudalism.
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