Comments on: Why Europeans are Moving Right

By: Mr. Moderate

Mr. Moderate — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:43:41 +0000

Actually maybe we are both moving to the same point on the spectrum. The European “right” is still left by our standards. Perhaps there is some middle point where the further left Europeans and further right Americans are now converging on (somewhere in the middle perhaps).

By: Aussie

Aussie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:43:33 +0000

The failure of assimilation is not a failure of government but of the particular group. They do not want to be assimilated because they want to take over.

This is why people are reacting and moving in an opposite direction.

Giving in on basics such as Sharia law is totally foolish. Yet the left cannot seem to see what they are doing when they push the Sharia law agenda. Have a good look at the mess in Great Britain. The fool who is Archbishop of Canterbury has it so very wrong.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:13:10 +0000

An excellent article. It should be read by every congressman/woman, senator, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, who said undocumenteds who cross our borders are not criminals. and any other elected official who wants to grant wholesale amnesty. One small point that the article failed to mention is that for the first time since the end of WWII, in my native Italy, there are no communists holding elective office. The Roman Empire fell because of a form of socilaism, (bread and ciruses) and the cheapening of its citizenship, granting it to the barbarians on their northern border.

Watch Britain, If the tories, who as the article indicates are not the staunch conservatives that Margaret Thatcher was, take back the government, then the Republican Party will take back the government in in 2012.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:00:40 +0000

I don’t know enough about the Finnish gvt to comment on that, but Finland does a fairly good job as assimilation. To qualify for unemployment and you can’t speak Finnish you are required to go to Finnish classes(which includes history and culture). You get gvt assistance for it, but it is mandatory to go if you don’t speak the language. I will be taking more classes in autumn if me and my Finn hubby are still here. He graduates next month, as well as other classes I have beeen taking on my own.

Finland is one of the more conservative EU countries, but still it’s health care, especially in drug choices are limited, and long waits to see specialists, and dentists. I have my own horror stories to tell about that. I miss my HMO I had in America so much, and I am so homesick.

By: Jody

Jody — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:30:48 +0000

Dan, while the EU countries are drifting right-ward in response to the problem of nutty Islamists in their midsts, the argument that our economy "beats" theirs isn't really that accurate. It really depends on what you are measuring and how you are measuring it. I found this article a while back from which dives in to all the different ways you can dice the comparisons. It's a little out of date, but the writer was rather prescient in warning about the housing bubble that has recently tripped us up. His point was

"...The truth is that neither side â€˜winsâ€™ in this beauty contest. Europe merely does less badly than the USA in some crucial respects. Yes, while it is true that the core Eurozone countries could perform far better, Germany, France and Italy have quite different problems â€“ in comparison both to the US and to each other â€“ which require quite different solutions. Anybody who claims that the US provides a model which the EU should copy needs to consider the basic economic facts of the case."

Europeans in general are more focused on the "community" while we're focused on the individual. Both groups have organized their economies accordingly, which provides trade-offs in the long run, again, especially when tough economic times hit Both systems provide a pretty good standard of living for both groups of people.

By: ThatGayConservative

ThatGayConservative — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:43:16 +0000

I keep hoping somebody can explain to me how taxing people to death and spending like a drunken Marxist will help the economy.

The US President is a Marxist who wants to appease our enemies.

And I don’t want to be a part of a bastardized notion of “morality” that puts the feelings of a few terrorists over the safety of U.S. citizens and her military.

By: Ignatius

Ignatius — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:20:34 +0000

A friend of mine spent 2 years in Malmo and recalled a neighborhood (ghetto) settled mostly by Muslim immigrants. Swedish social workers and emergency personnel were intimidated, had rocks and bottles thrown at them, beaten up, vehicles vandalized, etc. each time they entered the neighborhood to respond to emergencies. These agencies were then sued by immigrant groups for not responding adequately to emergencies while Swedish police were explicitly told by politicians not to prosecute immigrants who attacked emergency personnel.

By: V the K

V the K — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:10:45 +0000

France is being led by a free market capitalist… The US President is a Marxist who wants to appease our enemies.

I don’t what universe I woke up in, but I’m pretty damn sure Spock has a goatee in it.

By: Pink Elephant

Pink Elephant — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:40:15 +0000

Who knows, in a little while maybe moving to Paris will no longer be just a leftist’s fantasy or moving to Amsterdam a pot-head’s pipe dream.