Nationalists and Populists Poised to Dominate European Balloting

The region is entering an election supercycle in which anti-immigrant parties are likely to score substantial gains.

Carol Matlack

As Europeans assess the fallout from the U.K.’s Brexit referendum, they face a series of elections that could equally shake the political establishment. In the coming 12 months, four of Europe’s five largest economies have votes that will almost certainly mean serious gains for right-wing populists and nationalists. Once seen as fringe groups, France’s National Front, Italy’s Five Star Movement, and the Freedom Party in the Netherlands have attracted legions of followers by tapping discontent over immigration, terrorism, and feeble economic performance. “The Netherlands should again become a country of and for the Dutch people,” says Evert Davelaar, a Freedom Party backer who says immigrants don’t share “Western and Christian values.”......To Read More...

My Take - Europe is now being ruled by socialists.  Europe will always be ruled by socialists.   Why?   Because central planning and control is part of the European social paradigm.  Why?  Because Europe, as much of the world, was ruled by monarchs.  Monarchs were central planners who controlled the economy, religion and social values.  Isn't that what a socialist tyranny is?  What you call the leadership is immaterial versus what they do and how they act.  Does it really matter if you call the ruling class monarchists and aristocrats or socialists and bureaucrats?  The end result is the same....central planning from an elite who control everything.  If you doubt that just ask the French about Robespierre. 

But European socialism is divided into two factions now.  There are the internationalist socialists, who are now in power - and there are nationalist socialists, who are trying to capture the power.  Hitler, Mussolini and Franco were part of the later group.  The disasters created in Europe with the insanity of multiculturalism is now catching up to the internationalists and the nationalists are going to take control.  Is this a problem for the rest of the world?  Not in my opinion, at least as far as making an attempt to conquer the world as Hitler did.  They don't have the money, the military, the desire or the will.  They're just want to survive the mess created by Europe's Angela Merkel and her fellow multiculturalists. 

The problem will be the economic disaster that will follow the civil war that's going to ensue.  That economic mess will spread worldwide.  Russia and China will collapse internally with the loss of those markets, and all the phony military posturing by these con artists will stop. 

The U.S. will end the Breton Woods concept militarily, economically and socially.  We will be forced to contract our involvement in every part of the world.  We will stop being the world's policeman, welfare sugar daddy and worldwide social meddler.    Why?  We're broke! 

We'll owe twenty trillion dollars by the time the next President is inaugurated.  Social Security will stop being self funding in 2020 and bankrupt by 2030.  Where's the money supposed to come from?  Our demographic pyramid is out of whack.  Although it's better than all the world's advanced countries except China.  But theirs will worsen beyond ours within a few years.  Who's going to pay for everything? 

The baby boomer generation was a capital generating machine unparalleled in human history.  Vast amounts of capital that was wasted on a vast scale by a vastly oversized, corrupt and incompetent federal government.   That capital can't be replaced by the next generation.  Social Security will only be able to exist if there are massive raises in taxes on the next generation, or massive cuts in social security - or both.  Both of which will further decimate the economy long term. 

No matter who wins this election the world will change almost beyond recognition starting in 2020 and continuing past 2030.  Europe, and Russia, are breeding themselves out of existence.  Muslims are dynamic breeders, especially since they practice polygamy, and may become the majority in Russia between 2040 and 2050.  Russia may cease to exist as a nation, just as will Greece, along with a number of European countries, will cease to exist as independent nations. 

The only nation in the world really capable of being self sustaining and self recovering will be the U.S.  But that will take men of courage, and a society with moral fiber.  That can only happen if society finally recognizes leftism, and the parties representing leftism either politically or socially, are irrational, self serving, incompetent, corrupt, misanthropic and morally defective.  That's a realization long overdue.