Posted on 06/10/2024 6:10:31 AM PDT by Twotone
...In such a world, the European election results are ...well, modestly encouraging. On the basis of mere exit polls, the Belgian Prime Minister has been forced to resign and the French President has been bounced into doing a Sunak - dissolving the National Assembly and calling a "snap election" for the end of the month. An election he is certainly going to lose, and very badly.
So the bigshots whooping it up at Normandy just a couple of days ago had a bad night: Macron's party got less than half the votes of Marine Le Pen's. Indeed, between her triumphant National Rally and M Zemour's Reconquête (the Reconquest party), what the BBC and even the Telegraph insist on calling the "far right" got just shy of forty per cent of the vote. (M Zemour's party is for those who think Mme Le Pen is no longer "far right" enough.) In Germany Olaf Scholz saw his party come third, behind the even more "far right" Alternative für Deutschland. Over a million of Scholz's voters switched to the ooh-ever-so-far-right AfD.
So the "far right" are getting a lot nearer: maybe the Telegraph should try holding the telescope the right way round.
Instead, the media took consolation in finding the far-right rampage didn't go quite as far as it might: in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders' Freedom Party has gone from zero seats to six to emerge as the largest single Dutch party in the European Parliament - but all the experts are agreed that for some reason this is a wee bit of an under-performance.
Within the numbers are some interesting trends: Green parties did badly across the board, and in Germany significant numbers of their young voters switched to AfD. The question, as always, is whether these shifts are urgent enough...
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
The leaders of these countries are loudly banging the drums for a catastrophic war, and their green policies are wrecking their economies. The voter reaction is hardly surprising. Yet the far left power structure is so entrenched that I’ll believe real change when I actually see it
I saw one call last night for a ‘grand coalition’ of centrist, socialists and greens. - Basically the various faces of the establishment.
It seems that most of Europe goes through national elections quite frequently, i.e. every 12 to 18 months. Nothing ever seems settled for very long. I used to think that only applied to Italy.
I’ve noticed some countries in that region have both a president and a prime minister. That seems like the perfect set up for a conflict of egos based on division of duties.
Who’s the Boss?
Right advances, wrong recedes.
Movement toward the Center is always portrayed as the Far Right.
Ah, but with their complete lack of introspection, to the far Left no one can be “too far Left.”
The FAR Left wants you to belive that there is a straight line with a center point, flanked by Right and Left.
However, the truth is that you need to view this arguement on 360 degree circle.
NAZIs are defined by the FAR Left as FAR Right. NAZIs are Marxists/Socialists and therefore cannot exist on the Right, but must be Left of Center.
To believe the lies of the Left, you need know one thing. You have to get to the 361st degree of the circle find NAZIs, or the Far Right as they call them.
Christians are called Far Right, right? Thus we can exclude the DNC run black churches, Left... Right... Correct. We can exclude the LGBT churches. The DNC has renounced God every convention since Obama.
God is on the Right always. If you are a CINO or Christian in Name Only, you are on the Left. Christians abide by the Law, Marxists overthrow and undermine government.
The Big Lie about the FAR Right is that they are really on the LEFT.
These parties are mostly just labelled “far right” because of their immigration policies — also perhaps because of their attitude to towards EU regulation.
If politicians wanted to stop the “far right” they had only to slow down immigration, multiculturalism, and EU regulator overreach, but any steps in that direction were labelled “far right.”
That was overconfidence and shortsightedness on the part of the political Establishment, but maybe they recognize that elections to the European Parliament mostly just give voters a chance to vent, and then everything is back to politics as usual.
> I’ve noticed some countries in that region have both a president and a prime minister.
>That seems like the perfect set up for a conflict of egos based on division of duties.
>Who’s the Boss?
The president is usually just a ceremonial role. No real power.
later
Best quip I've heard for a long time.
Regarding Germany: did I not hear Dad the AfD party who recently gained a bunch of seats was recently banned by German officials a few months ago?
And the imported diversity is driving up housing costs, eating tax money and stabbing and raping people in the streets.
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