Posted on 04/22/2012 4:51:31 PM PDT by Lorianne
The big news out of the French election: Marine Le-Pen, the head of the far right wing National Front party, secured 20% of the vote in the first round of voting.
Le-Pen is now out of the race (the runoff on May 6 will be between Sarkozy and Socialist challenger Hollande), but a 20% showing for the anti-immigration, Euroskeptic candidate is a lightning bolt for France and all of Europe.
The other big event in Europe this weekend was in the Netherdlands, where a budget deal collapsed thanks to a revolt lead by another right winger: Geert Wilders.
From AFP:
The breakdown after seven weeks of talks on austerity measures between Premier Mark Rutte's ruling coalition and Wilders' eurosceptic, anti-Islamist Freedom Party (PVV) has destabilized the political scene.
Wilders walked out of the talks on Saturday saying his party "could not live up to" European Union demands, arguing that the cuts aimed at steering The Netherlands back within EU deficit targets would hit the elderly the hardest.
So the Netherlands, a country nobody was talking about, is now without a budget, and without a government. Elections will have to be called soon after the coalition breakdown.
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Nazis and so forth are considered "Socialist". On the other hand a Christian Social party is actually a Roman Catholic oriented party.
There are a lot of variations on these themes, and depending on the policy you can find parties in unusual places ~ usually because of monetary, tax, or expenditure disputes.
In America the Democrats are clearly ROYALISTS ~
Nazis and so forth are considered "Socialist". On the other hand a Christian Social party is actually a Roman Catholic oriented party.
There are a lot of variations on these themes, and depending on the policy you can find parties in unusual places ~ usually because of monetary, tax, or expenditure disputes.
In America the Democrats are clearly ROYALISTS ~
20% is only 8 points off the leaders.
The primary reason for the American Revolution was not taxes (a pretext), but expansion, The colonials wanted to expand the colonies to the West, while England, heavily committed to fighting France and being asked to protect the larger colonial possessions, refused. So, in sense, the revolutionaries were imperialists.
The primary reason for the American Revolution was not taxes (a pretext), but expansion, The colonials wanted to expand the colonies to the West, while England, heavily committed to fighting France and being asked to protect the larger colonial possessions, refused. So, in sense, the revolutionaries were imperialists.
Yeah, it's linear. That circular model is just a sales gimmick to promote socialism in communist school (American Universities)
On the linear scale, all the way to the left is totatalitarian including monarchy, communism and fascism. In the middle is mild socialism.
Not much to the right of center is found outside of the US, except maybe true anarchy, which is all the way to the right.
I don’t really care about royalty, I want the media to be consistent in their labeling. I know that is never going to happen.
I'm jealous.
Agreed. One the left, the state controls everything. On the right, there is no state. Real life is somewhere in between.
Everything is flowing down hill to the totally unaccountable INTERNET which is as it should be.
Let the reader beware!
So, how did that happen?
Part of the answer is that as Spain relinquished rule to France and England, not everybody who stayed behind agreed with that solution. Then, too, there were all those other folks who'd come here from the various parts of the so-called Hapsburg Empire (actually independent states under the rule or influence of members of the same family ~ called the Hapsburgs).
The ambitions of "Spanish" immigrants from what is now Dutch speaking Belgium weren't really that different from the ambitions of "Dutch" immigrants from what is now Nederlands! Once they were here they were all the same thing ~ in the long run England didn't have a chance!
Hapsburg rule weakened and passed on of its own accord, but the people didn't.
“So the Netherlands, a country nobody was talking about, is now without a budget...”
So what’s the problem? We haven’t had one of them things for three years!
“...and without a government.”
You’re making me jealous.
Here is a very good explanation of the types of 'isms' of that humanity uses, and why we have a republic:
Enjoy!
You’re correct. The American Revolution was - in reality - a Civil War; Colonialists against Royalists. Glad the Royalists lost!
Go Geert!!
" -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me." Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people."
Btt
From here:
Note: Marine has said she would attempt to restrict abortions by removing them from insurance coverage, i.e., the woman would pay the medical expense. She has also said that would give married women financial incentives to stay home to raise their children, instead of being forced to work. And she has said that young girls who are pregnant would be given a real choice between abortion and pre-natal adoption. Marine has said that today Planned Parenthood gives girls the choice between an "abortion and an "abortion".The French Left is currently going nuts over her proposal to stop covering abortion under government health care (ie, if you want an abortion, you have to pay for it yourself).She has thus gone further than any other candidate, and much further than her father or even herself in the past, towards advocating measures that would curtail abortions.
So it's a bit complicated. Has she come out in favor of making abortion a death-penalty offense? No. Has she taken a more pro-life position than any of the other candidates in France? Yes.
Yes he is. Geert has to live under 24/7 guard against Islamic assassins. He also was put on trial for "inciting racial hatred" because of his remarks on Islam.
Yes. And, no.
The constitution grew out of an attempt to revise the Articles of Confederation. The point of which was to increase centralization because of issues left over from trying to fight an empire with thirteen sovereign (but small and fractious) states.
Eighty or so years later the South suffered from the same issues and lost.
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