Socialism's slow collapse haunting europe

[ozzmdj]

And the Democrats want to take us down this road

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/world/europe/29socialism.html

 

[rightwinger]

Gee!......

Now that Socialism has collapsed in Europe.....does that mean they are going to get rid of their universal healthcare?

 

[Polk]

Shocking that parties which are in power would lose elections during an economic downturn.

 

[Polk]

Also interesting to point out the article undermines it's own premise...

Europe’s center-right parties have embraced many ideas of the left: generous welfare benefits, nationalized health care, sharp restrictions on carbon emissions, the ceding of some sovereignty to the European Union. But they have won votes by promising to deliver more efficiently than the left, while working to lower taxes, improve financial regulation, and grapple with aging populations.

Europe’s conservatives, says Michel Winock, a historian at the Paris Institut d’Études Politiques, “have adapted themselves to modernity.” When Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Germany’s Angela Merkel condemn the excesses of the “Anglo-Saxon model” of capitalism while praising the protective power of the state, they are using Socialist ideas that have become mainstream, he said.

It is not that the left is irrelevant — it often represents the only viable opposition to established governments, and so benefits, as in the United States, from the normal cycle of electoral politics.

In Portugal, the governing Socialists won re-election on Sunday, but lost an absolute parliamentary majority. In Spain, the Socialists still get credit for opposing both Franco and the Iraq war. In Germany, the broad left, including the Greens, has a structural majority in Parliament, but the Social Democrats, in postelection crisis, must contemplate allying with the hard left, Die Linke, which has roots in the old East German Communist Party.

So, in effect, they've won by running as "competent socialists".

 

[xsited1]

And the Democrats want to take us down this road

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/world/europe/29socialism.html

European countries have always suffered from the effects of socialism. Typically, they implement socialistic policies, border on the brink of bankruptcy, enact free market reforms which save the day for a few years, and then go back to their socialistic policies which will eventually lead to bankruptcy again. It's a vicious cycle.

 

[Truthmatters]

Do the cons really not realize that Bush and team fucked the entire world with their "ignore all regulations" way of doing business?

Bush and them are responsible for the world wide down turn.

 

[Polk]

For those wanting to talk about the rise of European conservatism, the parties most similar to American conservatives (NPD and REP) together pulled a whopping 1.9% of the vote.

 

[Truthmatters]

Its only names that matter to some