Posted on 09/30/2008 9:26:55 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
I wonder if Ms. Veronica realizes she answered her own confusion in the very first sentence.
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Well, the answer is obvious - keep holding votes until the people get it right (or Left, rather).
What a mindless and self-indulgent article. First off 30% of Austrians were not surprised by the vote, they were pleased with it. The authors are so stuck in their liberal vision they can’t really understand anything outside of it.
How about this gem: “Some experts suggested the results Sunday reflected a deep-seated discontent with the country’s outgoing governing coalition”
Well DUH! That’s what it means when the current party loses and an upstart wins in pretty much every electoral system, doesn’t it? At this point the voters have woken up to the tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum policies of the two leading parties and rejected them both.
And it continues with more nonsense: “rather than a sign that Austrians were becoming more extremist.” Name calling, always a good place to start with conservatives win an election if you are the AP.
Here, according to the article, are the extreme positions these parties hold: “Both parties advocate an end to immigration and the expulsion of foreigners and asylum seekers who commit crimes.”
It took eight paragraphs until the mandatory “Nazi” reference was inserted. Funny “Austrian Freedom Party” sounds pretty different from “Nationalist Socialist Party”, almost like they would have different philosophy and goals. We are never, in these articles, told what makes those slandered “nazis” , just that the are. The author must be a reporter-in-training. Senior reporters get the Nazi reference into the lede or opening paragraph.
If people want on or off this list, please let me know.
Germany, France and now Austria governed by evil conservatives.
Will the UKless, Spain and Italy be next?
The etf index for Austria, EWO, was one the best investments for us and many until about 18 months ago. It might become a good one again.
Keep in mind though, in Europe...Austria and Germany in particular, “far right” doesn’t necessarily mean “small-governement-conservative” like it does here. Often it means neo-Nazi (for real).
Drawing too great of a parallel with European and American politics is a dangerous game.
Actually “far right” in central Europe, unlike here, really does mean neo-Nazi/racist/extremist types.
The only parties willing to speak to the immigration time-bomb in Europe have generally been far right fringe groups....as main-stream parties, due to the national history of 65+ years ago..., are afraid to be labeled “racist,” hence the (real) extremists tend to own the issue of immigration.
FReeper conservatives should hope the non-racist parties step up to the plate and address these issues—not leaving it any longer to scary types.... and we should DEFINITELY not quickly ally ourselves with persons more friendly to fascists than they are to Jeffersonians.
Some of the best Nazis came from there.
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