The End Of The European Left

[Polk]

Those Japanese "conservatives"? Part of an international grouping known as the Alliance of Democrats, which consists of the New Democrat Coalition (conservative faction of the DNC) from our country, France's Democratic Movement, the Indian National Congress, Kadima, and South Africa's Democratic Alliance.

 

[PubliusInfinitum]

Decent Newsweek article outlining the significant shift from European style liberalism not just in Germany, but throughout Europe proper...

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After German Elections, the End of an Era for the European Left

Stefan Theil

The left has already splintered or self-destructed in Italy and France. This weekend it was Germany's turn. The election that awarded German chancellor Angela Merkel a second term Sunday night saw a huge shift of power away from the country's Social Democrats, continuing the steady dissolution of the European Left--those great labor and social democratic parties that dominated European politics for so many decades. The SPD hemorrhaged one third of its voters from the last election in 2005, dropping from 34 percent then to 23 percent now, by far the worst result for the party in post-war history, and the biggest plunge for any party in a national election. Many of the SPD's voters deserted it for the more radical Left Party, which polled 12 percent with a campaign slogan of wealth for everybody.

For the last four years, German chancellor Angela Merkel has been shackled by an unwieldy power-sharing agreement between her Christian Democrats and the rival SPD. The SPD's implosion allows Merkel to form a new coalition, ruling instead with her preferred allies, the pro-business Free Democrats, who together received enough votes to form a majority. Both parties have promised tax cuts and business-friendly reforms. But they face a huge pile up of urgent problems, including a banking system that has more toxic debt per capita than the U.S., the deepest collapse in German GDP since the Second World War, and a spiral of government debt.

That leaves only two left-of-center parties hanging onto power in major European countries, for now. Britain's Labour government under Gordon Brown may soon follow the SPD into opposition. That would leave Spain's Socialist Prime Minister, Jose Luis Zapatero, as the last great leftist standing.


Wealth of Nations : After German Elections, the End of an Era for the European Left

You ain't seen nothin' yet... As the economic results of Leftist policy collides with the entitlement mind set that has long since set to seed... you're going to see a cultural schism the likes of which haven't been seen since pitchforks and laterns.

With the Left having crushed the central CA farms and a fair segment of the US corn belt feeding ECO-fuels... the bread basket is at risk and all that's necessary to topple that cart is a few years of drought; to add stress to yet another 'unintended consequence' of Leftist policy... when they come to the rescue there, with cries of CLIMATE CHANGE! and produce some apocalyptic legislation... we shouldn't be too fair from a timely famine and I suspect that the addled-minds of Euro-stan will be ripe for some good old time religion... and given that there isn't much of Christianity left in Europe, that leaves a wonderful opportunity for Islam to really get going; and given their penchant for 'good works' and caring for the NEEDY... Presto... it's ON! Crazy assed Euro-trash contesting Western governance with the fervor of a convert...

It is going to be a bloodbath... and there won't be enough of America remaining to do a damn thing but watch it burn.

Should be a gas...

We need the shit to hit the fan to wake people the fuck up to what's going on around them.

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CRANK IT UP!

That is one of my all time favorite songs... it's a song of many truths.

Enjoyed that one friend... and you're exactly right.

 

[PubliusInfinitum]

The fact remains the vast majority of Europe is shifting to a more centrist position - and for a region dominated by left leaning European socialism, that is significant.

The Japanese election was transformative as well.

Times Are A Changin'....

Well Sinatra, they are, but it's not substantive change.

What I'm saying is that these shifts to always, inevitably favor the Left... No where on earth, except on US talk radio, do you even hear an advocacy for independence... individual liberty. All Eurostan is doing is that they're clambering for entitlements with fewer hassles.

There's no one over there talking about shutting down entitlements. Shutting down government healthcare... abandoning socialism for sustaining independence and individual liberty. What they call conservative is merely the idea that the Government needs to get out of the way... the entitlement mentality is the European mentality and when that system collapses, which is a 100% certainty... the masses of worthless human debris will go absolutely batshit crazy.

As they will be generations out, from knowing how to fend for themselves... thus where there is no alternative, they will turn inward... and what's available to them; given that they've all but removed Christianity from their culture; and given that Humanism will be recognized as having lead them to disaster; they'll turn to Islam... and it's at that point where Europe will become Euro-stan in earnest; and it's at that point where Europe will erupt into what always erupts once Islam gains sufficient power to assert itself.

Socialism is not a sustainable economic system; humanism is not a sustainable ethos... Thus cultures built upon the shifting sands of such foolishness have no potential to realize anything BUT the calamity, chaos and catastrophe common to such.

 

[Sinatra]

And in related news...


British Labour Party Going Down

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Gordon Brown's Labour Party has weakest polling in nearly 30 years - the British Political Party with the longest and most intricate ties to European socialism and trade unions is being described as "very weak."

The British Conservative Party leads polls heading into scheduled May elections, with the distinct possibility of a leadership victory for Conservative Party leader David Cameron.

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Brown Slumps to 3rd as Election Timetable Published

...“Labour is very, very weak,” Ben Page, chief executive officer of Ipsos-Mori, said in an interview at Labour’s conference. “The mood here is just terrible. Most people who want to vote Labour say they expect Labour to lose.”

The poll shows Labour supported by 24 percent of voters, compared with 25 percent for the Liberal Democrats and 36 percent for the Conservatives. Ipsos-Mori surveyed 1,003 adults. No margin of error was given.

Worst Since 1982

Labour hasn’t been placed third in Mori’s poll since February 1982, when the party was committed to raising taxes and unilateral nuclear disarmament....



Brown Slumps to 3rd as Election Timetable Published (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

 

[Xenophon]

Gordo is even more unpopular then Tony Blair, if you can believe that.

 

[Diuretic]

yes they are, they are changing to punish the people who created this mess of an economy.

American conservative ideals are dead world round

I don't know if it's about ideals, it's certainly about the myth of free markets though. This whole debacle has shown a need for regulation of markets and associated entities.

 

[Diuretic]

British Labour - Tory Lite - will have to rebuild itself. Yellow lines and dead armadillos are found in the middle, not political parties. Time for the policy foolishness of the "Middle Way" to hit the garbage can.

 

[Sinatra]

Decent Newsweek article outlining the significant shift from European style liberalism not just in Germany, but throughout Europe proper...

___

After German Elections, the End of an Era for the European Left

Stefan Theil

The left has already splintered or self-destructed in Italy and France. This weekend it was Germany's turn. The election that awarded German chancellor Angela Merkel a second term Sunday night saw a huge shift of power away from the country's Social Democrats, continuing the steady dissolution of the European Left--those great labor and social democratic parties that dominated European politics for so many decades. The SPD hemorrhaged one third of its voters from the last election in 2005, dropping from 34 percent then to 23 percent now, by far the worst result for the party in post-war history, and the biggest plunge for any party in a national election. Many of the SPD's voters deserted it for the more radical Left Party, which polled 12 percent with a campaign slogan of wealth for everybody.

For the last four years, German chancellor Angela Merkel has been shackled by an unwieldy power-sharing agreement between her Christian Democrats and the rival SPD. The SPD's implosion allows Merkel to form a new coalition, ruling instead with her preferred allies, the pro-business Free Democrats, who together received enough votes to form a majority. Both parties have promised tax cuts and business-friendly reforms. But they face a huge pile up of urgent problems, including a banking system that has more toxic debt per capita than the U.S., the deepest collapse in German GDP since the Second World War, and a spiral of government debt.

That leaves only two left-of-center parties hanging onto power in major European countries, for now. Britain's Labour government under Gordon Brown may soon follow the SPD into opposition. That would leave Spain's Socialist Prime Minister, Jose Luis Zapatero, as the last great leftist standing.


Wealth of Nations : After German Elections, the End of an Era for the European Left

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[Diuretic]

Bold claims that amount to nothing but speculation. A little like the claims of the end of history some years ago.

 

[Sinatra]

Bold claims that amount to nothing but speculation. A little like the claims of the end of history some years ago.

 

[mightypeon]

I see it more as the end of the "Socialist party" practice of moving way to far to the right.

In the last years, the German SPD was more market liberal than the gouverments of Kohl earlier (actually, deregulations in the Financial spectrum were to a significant extent created by the Red Green gouverment, funnily enough both the CDU and the left party were against it), it was WAY more interventionist on an international scale with beeing a prime propagator of the Jugoslavian Crisis and intervening in Afghanistan, it also did a Very significant downsizing of unemployment benefits as well as allowing Semester Fees to be levied by public universities.
Basically, they betrayed their elective base, which as a result did not turn up, voted for the left party or prefered to vote for the conservative orgininal instead.

Translated to American terms: Imagine the Democrats cancelling Affirmative action, removing minimum wages, cancelling medicare and mediaid and invading Iran.

 

[Sinatra]

I see it more as the end of the "Socialist party" practice of moving way to far to the right.

In the last years, the German SPD was more market liberal than the gouverments of Kohl earlier (actually, deregulations in the Financial spectrum were to a significant extent created by the Red Green gouverment, funnily enough both the CDU and the left party were against it), it was WAY more interventionist on an international scale with beeing a prime propagator of the Jugoslavian Crisis and intervening in Afghanistan, it also did a Very significant downsizing of unemployment benefits as well as allowing Semester Fees to be levied by public universities.
Basically, they betrayed their elective base, which as a result did not turn up, voted for the left party or prefered to vote for the conservative orgininal instead.

Translated to American terms: Imagine the Democrats cancelling Affirmative action, removing minimum wages, cancelling medicare and mediaid and invading Iran.[/QUOTE]