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In reply to the discussion: So France bounces Sarkozy and Greece bounces them all. A morality play for US austerity proponents. [View all]DutchLiberal
(5,744 posts)9. Greeks gave 8% of the vote to neo-nazi party; for first time in 4 decades they'll be in parliament..
And when I say 'neo-nazi', I'm not exaggerating or being hyperbolic. I mean they're literally neo-nazi's. Their politicians dress in shirts with White Pride emblems on them; they have the photographs of the fascist colonels which run their dictatorship in the 1960's on their walls; they have Mein Kampf on their bookshelves. That was filmed by a Dutch tv crew.
I'm glad for what happened in France, though one has to ask how 'socialist' their socialists really are when they were initially planning on nominating Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the IMF. The IMF should be the arch-enemy of any *real* socialist and I can't see Strauss-Kahn was exactly living a life befitting to a socialist.
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So France bounces Sarkozy and Greece bounces them all. A morality play for US austerity proponents. [View all]
Stinky The Clown
May 2012
OP
Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Nicaragua, El Salvador...
DutchLiberal
May 2012
#10
Absolutely. There are plenty of examples of the failures of austerity. If they (the corporations)
jwirr
May 2012
#30
Unfortunately, this presumption is not accurate in our present framework.
girl gone mad
May 2012
#12
Winning the election while making promises of a great life is easy. Producing those results is hard.
dkf
May 2012
#5
When there is a referendum on whether the economy is in place to serve the citizens (or vice versa),
Snarkoleptic
May 2012
#7
Greeks gave 8% of the vote to neo-nazi party; for first time in 4 decades they'll be in parliament..
DutchLiberal
May 2012
#9
The Greeks will be going back on the drachma with a 50% cut in the standard of living.
FarCenter
May 2012
#22
After a period of chaos, they will get a dictatorship of either the right or the left
FarCenter
May 2012
#24