Authoritarianism?? Can’t believe it, look at history how fascism rises. It enters a vacuum where political parties fail in their responsibility. See also Marx and communism in the 19th century, socialism in the 20th century and social revolution in the 21st century. Making corporate power “people” and taxation/flight to tax havens leads to greater inequality of income and wealth concentration. The rise of Trump & others in Europe is to preserve the white “culture” and the religious component of Judeo/Christian “moral values”.
The project “Islamophobia” is bearing fruit across the western world. The attack of 9/11 and the violent reaction by the US and allies to invade and occupy Iraq has furthered the cause of “Clash of Civilizations.” Neither the Islam of Saudi Arabia, the Orthodoxy in Israel, universal Catholicisn of Rome, Putin’s “authoritarianism” or fundamental evangelicals of the US are a “civilized” people and well represented by its democratically elected leadership. George Bush was clear when he [mis]spoke of a Crusade against violent Islam with supercharged devastation and abuse of every human right normally expected from a world leader adhering to International law and universal principles of mankind.
Most interesting which European political leaders send congrats to the election sweep by Donald Trump on Super Tuesday on March 1st …
Congratulations @realDonaldTrump ! by Geert Wilders (PVV)
« click for Wilders' US speech
Wilders: "Eigen volk eerst!" [Bashing Islam - Holland for the Dutch]
- Si j’étais américain, je voterais Donald
TRUMP… Mais que Dieu le protège !
[If I were American, I’d vote Donald
TRUMP … but God bless him!].
○ Geert Wilders @geertwilderspvv on Dec. 7, 2015
- I hope @realDonaldTrump will
be the next US President.
Good for America, good for Europe.
We need brave leaders.
○ UKIP tweets about Trump by UKIP webmaster
- . @Channel4News doesn’t even disguise
its bias against @realDonaldTrump
‘Brace yourself’ for more of their crap
when he becomes President.
Turnout down in Democratic Super Tuesday contests
Most of the Democratic primaries were not very competitive on Super Tuesday and predictably the turnout was far below previous high marks, which were almost all set in 2008. However, in Massachusetts, where both Clinton and Sanders ran a vigorous race, the turnout was not that far off the state’s 2008 Democratic presidential primary record. But in most of the southern states, where voters could cast ballots in either party’s primary, more were drawn to participate in the GOP contest.
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Turnout by Democrats down in non-competitive states. (PBS)
Nigel Farage: I share concerns with Donald Trump
Nigel Farage has said that he shares concerns about an out-of-touch political class with the controversial Republican Donald Trump, during a speech in the US in which the Ukip leader also warned about the security risk posed by immigrants.
Farage made the comments [on July 2015] at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank in Washington DC.
He added: “I do think some of the things he’s picked up on in the last few weeks are very similar to the kind of things we’ve picked up on in British politics – the feeling that there is a centralised bureaucracy in Washington, maybe not connecting with some of the concerns of ordinary people.”
○ Farage, unlike Trump, is not an out-and-out racist thug
Trump, who is running to be the Republican presidential candidate, attracted comparisons with Farage after causing controversy by suggesting that Mexican immigrants include rapists and that they bring drugs and crime to the US.
Love of Geert Wilders for Netanyahu
○ Dutch MP in Tel Aviv: Palestinians Should Go Home to Jordan
Funding for the one-member party PVV of Geert Wilders from the US pro-Israel community:
○ Geert Wilders a Likudnik sponsored by Daniel Pipes
○ Has Islam-bashing tarnished ‘tolerant Britain?’
○ This monster called Europe
○ Hannah Arendt’s critique of human rights – The Origins of Totalitarianism
