[Rembrandt_fan]

You wrote, concerning Le Pen, "Why is he still alive?"

Sometimes the wicked prosper.

Oddly, whenever I think of Le Pen, I think of Pym Fortunyn, the brave, flamboyantly gay, outspoken anti-Islamist Dutch politician, and Oriana Fallaci, the brave, brilliant Italian journalist, and Theo Van Gogh, the brave, foolhardy and reckless Dutch filmmaker, and Hirsa Ali, the brave, articulate Dutch intellectual and parlimentarian--assassinated, exiled, assassinated, exiled. These are who I think of when I think of Europe.

The lights are going out over there. It's one thing to think about it in the abstract, without emotion, at a distance; quite another to grasp what it really means. Men like Le Pen and 'Red' Ken Livingstone and George Galloway are the new, true faces of Europe. Even Shakespeare wouldn't write a tragedy so dark and hopeless.

[montag813]

The lights are going out over there. It's one thing to think about it in the abstract, without emotion, at a distance; quite another to grasp what it really means. Men like Le Pen and 'Red' Ken Livingstone and George Galloway are the new, true faces of Europe. Even Shakespeare wouldn't write a tragedy so dark and hopeless.

Very well said, and very tragic.

[Liberty Valance]

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