European Parliament Elections thread jamboree

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15. Except for the Greens doing well, not much

The German SPD deservedly got their asses handed to them (same tired old slogans that sent Martin Schulz packing 2 years ago), but their Spanish counterparts had a respectable showing.

Europe is fracturing, just like the Weimarer Republik did before Hitler's NSDAP "won" in 1933 (and check out with how much of the vote!). The vision of DeGaulle and Adenauer of uniting France and Germany, and integrating to the point where another war between France and Germany would be impossible is not dead, by any means, but the forces of disunity and nationalistic extremism are creeping back nonetheless.

It's really insane because today's European youth is completely on board with the notion of a united, borderless Europe. Go to any large gathering or main city square in Europe this summer, and you will find college students of 25 different nationalities, hanging out together as if they were all from the same place--and as far as they are concerned, they are. It's the fuck-ups here that go into politics. Voices of common sense get shouted down as if they were Democrats at a Fox Noise interview. It took a so-called "conservative" i.e. Angela Merkel, to have the courage to say no more nuclear power or coal burning in Germany. What did she get for her efforts? She got called "old and used up" by even the most liberal press here.