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Kathryn Hayman's avatar

The fall of the Berlin Wall whilst good from the point of view of ending divisions among people was bad in terms of the complete takeover by the West of the East German state. I remember when it happened feeling a mix of happiness for the people who were knocking the wall down but also dread in that I knew what would come; we would have rampant, unregulated capitalism and therefore exploitation across the whole of Eastern Europe.

The West did the same thing in Soviet Russia flooding the market with Coca Cola and crappy toxic food as well as stripping it of assets and allowing mafioso style oligarchs free rein.

I do hope we're seeing the beginning of the end of these foul rapacious economic regimes in Europe and US. PEOPLE, WAKE UP!

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Tony Buck's avatar

The traditional parties' inability to control migration effectively ?

The word "refusal" should be substituted for "inability", surely ?

And despite liberal claims to own the high moral ground regarding immigration, destroying one's own society with excessive immigration, is definitely immoral.

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WP's avatar

It’s not immoral if you only care about political power which is all that non Christian elites care about.

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Bo's avatar

The COVID-19 crisis is notably absent as an important topic in the analysis: politically arbitrary restrictions on fundamental rights, harassment, exclusion, and vilification of critics of the measures, as well as the reluctance to appropriately address these issues, also play a decisive role in the dissatisfaction with the established parties and have generated votes for the AfD and the BSW.

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Gpcus's avatar

"Uno spettro si aggira per l'Europa: lo spettro del populismo destro-sinistro. Tutte i leader della vecchia Europa si sono coalizzati in una sacra caccia alle streghe contro questo spettro: da Mario Draghi a Ursula Von der Layen, da Macron a Scholz, liberali francesi e centristi tedeschi"... non si vedeva tanta agitazione nelle nostre elites politico-accademico-mediatiche dai moti del 1848 e la stesura del Manifesto, ahahaha!

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Jose Varas's avatar

Hopefully, more European politicians will follow Sahra Wagenknecht's lead. This is just what is needed at this moment: a party that is antiwar, anti-neoliberalism and anti-woke.

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