The Collapsing Global Left

American Thinker ^ | June 09, 2009 | Bruce Walker

[neverdem]

Conservatives can take heart from the crushing blow that taxes and spenders received in the California election.  Six propositions were on the ballot in May.  All six passed the California Legislature easily.  Republicans in the legislature generally opposed them.  The five supported by the Left were defeated by huge landslides.  Four of those five were defeated in every single county in California (the fifth barely carried the San Francisco area.)  The proposition to limit legislative salaries while the state ran a deficit, however, carried every county in California and won 75% of the vote across the state.

Was this a victory for conservatives?  It was in this sense:  It was a crushing defeat of the Left.  Other elections in May brought more gloomy news for the Left and enemies of the West.  India held elections in mid-May.  Polls showed that the Left might well win control of the Indian Government.  Instead, the ruling Congress Party won a sweeping victory, which is very good news for the United States.  At the same time, the Kuwaiti people were casting votes for their parliament.  The big story was that four women were elected to the parliament, two of whom were educated in America – and they were elected by an overwhelmingly male electorate.  The lesser story was that non-religious political parties – political parties that look more like what a party in Holland or Canada would look like – finally gained a majority in the Kuwaiti Parliament.  Western pluralism is taking root in the most Islamic parts of the world.  It is taking place because of America.

June brought even more terrible news for the Left.  England held regional elections.  The Labour Party government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown is bland, staid Leftism.  An exception example of its almost casual Leftism was the decision of the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to include conservative talk show host Michael Savage on a list of the twenty-two undesirables too hateful to enter the United Kingdom.  The minister responsible for that Orwellian action is out of the cabinet now (though more because her husband charged his personal porn purchases as a government expense.)

The Labour Party, in many ways, is the oldest Leftist party in the world.  It is certainly one of the most significant.  Under the sunny smile and glib words of Tony Blair, Labour did pretty well.  But not now.  The government of Great Britain is in free fall.  The Labour Party has the confidence of practically no one.

Polls for the last several years have shown that if the general election were held today, the Labour Party would be swept from power.  It is even conceivable that Labour, after the next election, will be only the third largest party in the House of Commons.  The mere fact that Brown has not called a general election, when practically no one believes in his ability to govern, is a disgrace to the parliamentary system.

Another disgrace – a big one – popped up a few weeks before the June 5, 2009 elections.  Members of Parliament were caught in the same sort of personal abuse of the government parliamentary administration that the United States House of Representatives was caught doing twenty years ago in the House Banking Scandal.  Labour Party members sinned, but so did Conservative MPs and others.  How would the British people react?            

The results were breathtaking in their scope.  The Conservative Party, which already controlled most of the local councils in England, gained control of seven more local councils.  Tories won 30 of the 34 councils up for election. The number of Conservative Party local council members in England, which already was greater than Labour, increased dramatically.  Most democracies and Britain is no exception.  Although Labour was the big loser, the next largest party, the Liberal Party, lost seats too.  The voters of England, who in 2008 local elections had already given Conservatives a big victory, gave Conservatives in 2009 an even more sweeping victory. 

A couple of days later, Britons went to the polls again, this time to elect members to the European Parliament.  The Conservative Party won more seats than any other party, and other conservative parties like the Independence Party and British National Party scored dramatic gains.  The results were a clear restatement by the British people that the Right, not the Left, should be governing them.

What happened in Britain happened across Europe.  Angela Merkel in the September 2009 election appeared certain to be able to form a Right-Center government with its Free Democrat Party, and end the Right-Left coalition government she heads now.  Every poll for several years has shown that result.  State elections in Hesse earlier this year showed that.  Now, the European Parliament elections show that too.  The Social Democrats, the primary party of the German Left, received an historically low 21% of the vote.

Across the width and breadth of Europe, the more conservative political parties were drubbing the parties of the Left.  It means in a few months, every major nation in Europe will have a political party of the Right in power.  Europe is not having a Reagan Revolution or even a Thatcher Revolution.  But Europe is giving the Left an F- on its electoral report card,

Does the smashing victory of the Conservative Party, and these other victories mean that the democratic world is suddenly embracing our conservative principles?  No:  not at all.  But does it mean that voters, almost everywhere they can vote, are rejecting the message of the Left?  Yes.  Real conservatism is not winning elections yet; but the Left is clearly losing.

American voters are bombarded by their media with the message that conservatism is dead, because a Democrat got 52 perecent of the presidential vote. Meanwhile, the collapse of the Left proceeds apace elsewhere in the world.
 

Bruce Walker is the author of two books:  Sinisterism: Secular Religion of the Lie, and his recently published book, The Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity.

[SolidWood]

Don’t miss out on Lebanon. The lefties friends Hezbullah were soundly defeated.

[4rcane]

funny how the rest of the world seem to always go in opposite direction of USA

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Come on 2010 elections..... the Democrats are in for a huge defeat... and Mr. Obama will be a lame duck President for the last 2 years in office.

[4rcane]

what would be sad is, if the republicans win, but govern like democrats-lite. The Federal government need MASSIVE spending cuts, not little ones we’ve seen from Republicans so far

[monocle]

Our demographics are likely to bite your behind. Two minorities which comprise 25% of our population, and that number is growing, believe the sole reason for any government is to cater all needs and desires at the expense of others. We have entered the era of entitlements and any politician who stands in the way will be summarily removed from office.

[GeronL]

The BNP is not a conservative party

[Biggirl]

Look for the Dems to have their CLOCKS CLEANED GOOD in 2010.

[Biggirl]

Folks here tend to forget that as the tea parties grow by leaps and bounds, they WILL HAVE AN EFFECT. We will see 1994 all over again.

[iopscusa]

You bet Prophet, I believe that we will have a lame duck Obama or even possibly an impeached Obama after 2010.

[SERE_DOC]

"or even possibly an impeached Obama after 2010."

Why wait?

[sergeantdave]

“...or even possibly an impeached Obama after 2010.”

I’d take it a step farther and demand that rat party members be indicted for sedition. The hate crime laws and the law that nullified the power of state governors and gave power to state legislatures to accept pork money are both clear cases of actively and knowingly undermining our system of government.

There are other examples...

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Buyers remorse is in full swing almost now..... it’s not like we didn’t try to warn them

[Biggirl]

We are starting to see the starts of “buyers remorse”.

[Scotswife]

The money quote....

“American voters are bombarded by their media with the message that conservatism is dead, because a Democrat got 52 perecent of the presidential vote. Meanwhile, the collapse of the Left proceeds apace elsewhere in the world.”

[AndyJackson]

Come on 2010 elections.

Not too fast. Republicans need to figure out what they stand for and how they are going to govern in an era of diminished expectation. They cannot oppose tax and spend with no tax but spend even more. They have to get past the idea that American hegemony is the cure for all the world's ills. They have to believe in free market capitalism, not crony capitalism. They have to believe that more government, but privatized is still more government, and probably even less efficient government. They need to believe that less regulation, less intrusiveness is important. They need to disassemble the nanny state. In a country where 1 in 6 GDP dollars goes to health care the solution is not more money to health care, but free market solutions to health care.

[sirchtruth]

Look for the Dems to have their CLOCKS CLEANED GOOD in 2010.

At this point your statement is a ridiculous proposition. The Republican Party hasn't done shinola to change it's moderate ways. I think there are more people like me who will no longer vote for a person with an (R) beside their name and will NEVER EVER again vote for a MODERATE or RINO.

The Republicans have to have a conservative vision and be willing to take on the DBM/dems much more readily than they have. They need to get rid of or at the very least wrest control of the party from the likes of McCain, Powell, Snowe, Collins, etc before they regain my support or any vote I may cast vote!

[Jabba the Nutt]

"The Labour Party, in many ways, is the oldest Leftist party in the world."

I believe the German Social Democrats are the oldest leftist party in the world and THE most influential.

The Left-wing in Europe essentially support national suicide. They support high levels of immigration of unassimilatable Muslims and oppose any attempt to promote assimilation. The support high levels of welfare spending for these immigrants. They denounce anyone, who questions such policies as racist, neo-nazi and skinheads. Reality is in the process of biting.

[JSDude1]

It would be the coup de grace if Amadinijad were to loose in Iran too (I know the alternative isn’t exaclte “conservative” or pro-west, but he’s be better than the mad-man who called for the destruction of Israel, and war with the West).

2ndly you also forgot that Netanyahu (and co-parties) won in Israel too!!

[JSDude1]

All this does is create an opportunity; now we as Conservatives have to show people our vision and how we would govern (and this includes taking back the Republican Party from Liberals).