So the socialist EU had its elections, affecting a combined land mass larger than the US, with a larger population to boot; its also a model for government that our currently elected leadership is trying to emulate; they suffer with the same issues we do, but times ten (Italy is now the only muslim country not to condemn Israel); and their voters elected extreme right wing conservatives, some of them nationalist, supremacists because they are so fed up ...
Some of the winners in the election are vowing to close borders, kick out immigrants, and dismantle the EU. In the Netherlands the Party of Freedom, led by Geert Wilders, vows to ban the Koran, scrap the parliament and kick out Romania and Bulgaria. In Finland the anti-immigrant “True Finns” party came from nowhere to win a seat. In Hungary three seats went to the xenophobic Jobbik, which has a “civil defence” militia, the Hungarian Guard. Far-right, anti-immigrant parties gained seats in Austria, Denmark, Greece, Italy and Slovakia. The British National Party took two seats.
Sadly, few Americans know or care to know the siginificance of these events. Whether we like it or not, we are tied at the hip to what happens in Europe.
