Europe veers right

I don’t think it was just about punishing the parties in power because of the financial crisis. Many Europeans are simply fed up with the left and it’s been brewing for years.

It goes back way further than their anger and unease with the Muslim immigrant situation, too. People have for years become increasingly irritated by the sinister exercise of power of the EU, which has spread its tentacles into almost every area of life. Furthermore, most of it has happened without their consent, since the majority of EU countries signed into the Treaty without referendum. Look how left wing governments reacted when the people of Ireland were given an EU referendum and voted against it. They went into denial and vowed to continue with the Treaty regardless of the fact that it was only supposed to go ahead with 100% agreement. Euroskeptics observed this and thought: hang on, just who the hell do these bastards think they are?

They don’t want to be absorbed into a bland, soulless, sterile Europe and have their national identities airbrushed out. They’re tired of hearing years of tiresome left wing nanny state rhetoric. They’re tired of the attacks on their freedom of speech. The Brits are tired of being forced to pay for a state TV station which parrots endless left wing propaganda day in day out.

When I was a young kid at school in England in the late 70′s, it was a time of labor disputes and strikes. The caretakers (janitors) of state schools went on strike and there were no lessons for a couple of months. In the meantime, my father took some time off work and continued my education himself. When school restarted, it quickly became apparent to my teachers that I’d learned a lot during the time off. I told them my dad had been teaching me. So they brought him into school for a “meeting” at which they angrily told him, “how dare you teach your own son. That’s our job. Please refrain from teaching him any more.”

That’s the sinister socialist mentality which pervades almost every public institution in Europe and has done for the last three or four decades. In Germany, homeschoolers have been persecuted and in some cases dragged back into public schools by the state to continue their indoctrination. Homeschooling parents have been thrown into jail for the crime of teaching their own kids. What these socialist bastards are realizing now is that if you want to oppress people like this, you’d better bloody well make sure you abolish democracy first because sooner or later even the most docile populations will rise up and bite you on the ass.

Sharke on June 8, 2009 at 12:22 PM

You have to be careful on this score — the US has an unusual (and somewhat contrary) definition of conservative and liberal, because the socialists stole the label “Liberal”, and the conservatives are trying to conserve the liberal tradition of the founding fathers. Europe uses a more standard definition (usually), with the free market types being labeled “liberal” and the nationalistic (and sometimes racist) types being “conservative”.
The terms aren’t quite reversed, though they aren’t quite orthogonal, either.

Count to 10 on June 8, 2009 at 11:18 AM

This isn’t entirely true. For instance the British “Liberal Democrats” could hardly be described as the party of the free market. They’re social liberals, definitely left of center – which means they oppose state intervention in personal affairs. But like the left in general, their support of individual rights is pretty much limited to the areas of personal life favored by the left, i.e. sexual and personal matters etc – and does not stretch to other equally important areas of life such as economics and finance. The British Liberal Democrats, for instance, are big supporters of the welfare state and business-destroying green issues. They’re also extremely pro-EU. Hardly libertarians.

I also disagree with you about the European use of the word “conservative.” If it’s associated primarily with racist nationalist types then that’s really the doing of the left wing media in Europe – for instance the BBC loves to attach the words “conservative” and “right wing” to everything from the Taliban to the Iranian government, but are much more discerning when they use the terms “liberal” or “left wing,” being careful not to associate them with anything extreme or unpalatable.

The left will of course continue to smear conservatives as racists any chance they get. If you took that privilege away from them they wouldn’t have much of a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

Sharke on June 8, 2009 at 12:53 PM