This is what the European right-wing looks like

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This is an interesting video I just found out about. It's going to be the PVV's main television ad for September's elections.
The things said here are essentially true, but presented in a rather clumsy way. Shown below is the video, and below the video is my translation.
Any thoughts?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2n3uQpurTE[/youtube]

Bunch of drunks.

It is Spain and Greece that are paying the most.

The EU right wing are the ones pushing and succeeding in stupid austerity laws and making sure the poor pay the mistakes of the rich instead of the other way around. It is sort of fair. But to then come going emo and cutting their wrists because they think they are even remotely paying for the Greek and Spanish crisis is so insulting and lame.

Nah - one of their characteristics is that they're usually much more supportive of welfare and accessible public services than market liberals. Even before the economy went down, this political party was demanding investments in care for the elderly, in education and in expanding police forces by redirecting manpower from paperwork to the streets. Other right-wing parties throughout Europe have voted against austerity measures much more than labour parties and liberal parties have. Basically, this right-wing party has much more interesting plans than any leftist parties for people who require permanent care because of old age, or for those who receive welfare because they are unable to work.

Here's more. The amount of money we're guaranteeing for a European fund that will be empty within two years is estimated, depending on calculations, to be between 40 billion and 134 billion. This is money we're losing, and money we certainly can't spare, with a budget deficit now higher than that of many countries in Southern Europe while in our third year of rather extreme austerity measures that have also caused our economy to collapse. We're in the worst economic direction since the end of World War II. And then 4.7% of our annual GDP, or almost 20% in the worst case, is donated to one European Union fund.

Edit: another thing that could explain why these parties are so popular: one day, voters are told that there need to be cuts in education because there is no money. They're told their parents can either buy their own walkers or stop walking altogether. There are reports of mentally-handicapped people kept chained to walls in institutions, and elderly people in retirement homes who have 'pajama days' because there is no money for staff to take them out of bed and wash them. But when some anonymous European Union fund needs money, these same people have no problem signing away the collective income of millions of people while denying them a referendum.

When I opened the thread I was sort of expecting to see this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGMNAFpa8wY[/youtube]

And you know the situation is bad when almost 7% of Greek voters still support them after that incident.
Plus, actively sporting nazi-like symbols. And some other incidents involvings threats and war rhetoric.

The Great Depression gave Europe Hitler. The Lesser Depression, it only seems reasonable, would result in a lesser but still substantial rise in far-right thugs.

Sorry, HDM. Ik kan niet lezen.

The KKE is blatantly Stalinist in every meaning of the word. A product of a bygone era. They continually hark back to the Greek Civil War in an attempt to glorify their militant past, yet are effectively a parliamentarian-party through-and-through.

When the Greek people tried to take over parliament a year ago, KKE cadre obediently stood side-by-side with riot police to thwart attempts to storm parliament, while inside government MP's calmly debated and ultimately passed harsh austerity measures.

Lenin would have called the KKE a "rearguard party," in that instead of being at the vanguard in the struggle to end austerity and kick out the rotten regime, the KKE tails behind the masses(represented by their extreme loss of votes in last month's election); In a pathetic attempt to save face, the KKE claims that electoral politics mean nothing and that they will instead join with the masses in the streets to fight austerity. It's all empty rhetoric if you ask me.

the Coalition of the Radical Left(Syriza), despite being made up of a mixture of both reformist and radical leftist parties, would be considered a true "vanguard party" by Lenin, winning over 20% of the vote in last month's elections and afterwards maneuvering itself into the opposition camp in parliament.

In effect, Syriza literally finds itself occupying the same position as Russia's Bolshevik Party(also known as the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party before suffering a party split with the Menshevik, or "minority" party faction) prior to the overthrow of the old regime; The Bolshevik Party wound up by 1917 struggling inside and outside of the Russian duma, while also propagandizing, agitating, etc. amongst the lower-classes of St. Petersburg from within the revolutionary soviets, or councils.

In essence, a revolution is brewing in Greece.

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