Sustantivo Espania!
Interesting article from the recent past, that has to have "the Won" worried - now that Spain has joined the TEA party revolution.
"How Spain Can Build its Own 'Tea Party': Copy Sarah Palin"
Hispanidad, Spain
October 21, 2010
Posted on 05/22/2011 2:46:39 PM PDT by PapaBear3625
MADRID -- Spain's ruling Socialist party has suffered a bruising defeat to conservatives in the municipal leg of elections and looked headed to suffer big losses in regional government races as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
The they are fed up with austerity and as crazy as it sounds he Socialist were the austerity party in Spain...
I agree. Whatever party imposes austerity will get thrown out. The danger is that at some point a despot will offer up the right scapegoat (the EU or the ECB?) and we are going to have a replay of Germany in the 30s. And the potential is there for this to happen in multiple European countries.
In addition, I have a real fear that the US has progressed so far down the same road that when the sovereign defaults, or their equivalent, begin snowballing we could do the same thing.
Look at the Democrat Party's game plan for 40 years. Create dependency and offer scapegoats to blame for the sheeple's lack of wealth. Dems offer no positive solutions to anything, only a list of those to blame, someone else at fault who should be hated.
...meanwhile the United States continues to import radical socialist ideas.....:(:(:(
LOL, I was in a sleeping bag camped out, woke up and a good looking french woman was taking a bath about 20 feet away, just had a pair of cotton bottoms on.
“Duh, they smacked the socialists because they were not getting enough freebies.”
Probably true... but the conservatives won.
BTTT for post #2. Thanks Texas Fossil. I agree 100%.
Given what happened in China under Mao Zedeng's rule, getting away from socialism is the BEST thing to do. Go read up on the debacle that was the Great Leap Forward and that is the best example of top-down economic control being a really bad thing.
Sustantivo Espania!
Interesting article from the recent past, that has to have "the Won" worried - now that Spain has joined the TEA party revolution.
"How Spain Can Build its Own 'Tea Party': Copy Sarah Palin"
Hispanidad, Spain
October 21, 2010
One thing missing in this discussion is the role of the Catholic Church and social conservatives.
The Socialist government of Zapatero was virulently anti-Christian.
It tried to force secularism upon a still devoutly Catholic country.
During his time in office, Zapatero instituted “gay marriage”. Allowed homosexuals to adopt children. Allowed abortions upon demand and late term abortions. Ban religious education. Close down churches. Ban masses at public monuments.
All without allowing the public to vote upon it.
Even thous the Church regularly gathers 100,000’s in protest, but the Socialist chose to ignore them.
The Church vigorously campaigned against the Socialist and without the Catholic vote I doubt the Conservatives could have won.
This is a lesson the Republicans should learn as it tries to abandon social conservatives in order to appeal a “wider base”.
The Spanish Civil war was between the socialists/communists/unions vs. large landowners/socialists/army.
These Spanish soldiers were not fighting for large landowners/socialists/army.
They fought to defend their faith and to defend their country.
They fought against atheistic Communists, Socialist, and Anarchist, who were executed priest, brothers and nuns, who slaughtered the faithful and desecrating Churches. Who tried to wipe all vestiges of religion.
They went into battle shouting "Dios y Patria" and "Viva Cristo Rey".
...being played out in vivid technicolour right now in Greece.
looks like the 12th Texas Irregulars going into battle against the obambicoms.
History repeating video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE_1tCasi_Q
Franco was a “conservative” in the European political sense, in that he was a dictator with royalist leanings, which is entirely different from a conservative in the U.S. political sense, someone who truly believes in individual freedom and republican government.
Great pics. On the topic of the Spanish Civil War, I heartily recommend Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia for some insight into the war, the political alignments of those fighting it, and the times.
Orwell went to Spain to fight as a starry-eyed socialist to “help the people of Spain” and barely escaped with his life, not so much at the hands of his apparent adversaries, the Nationalists (Fascists), but at the hands of his nominal allies in the fight, the Communists. It had to have been quite a wake-up call, though he did remain a socialist upon his return to England. The overview at Wikipedia is pretty good.
It’s a quick read but quite illuminating, both about the war and the Left.
All true!!!
Both Hitler and Stalin were big government socialists: absolutely wedded to the power of the state.
They fought to the death. Why would Spain be any different?
Dictatorships isn't a conservative government.
Excellent photo essay.
I made a point up-thread that big statists (e.g. Stalin v Hitler) are frequently each others worse enemies.
But I have to say that if you do find yourself in the unenviable position of having to choose between two big-state solutions, the one to support is the one with the social conservatives.
I'm not sure what is your point is but both types of government killed a lot of their citizens. Are you telling me you would prefer to live under a dictator that had a lot of people executed?
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