Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Alexrpt — Marine Le Pen calls the European Union an authoritarian “cult engaged in brainwashing and blackmail.”


LePen smells blood.

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Marine Le Pen calls the European Union an authoritarian “cult engaged in brainwashing and blackmail.”
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10 comments:

Ryan Harris said...
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Ryan Harris said...

Huge opening for ambitious politicians. The level of animosity between European nations is frightening, I fear not only for the Euro break up but that tensions could actually lead to war in the longer term. I was watching the news wire today and the quotes have really degraded to open hostility between factions. A few years ago, everything was always polite and no politician would even talk directly about uncomfortable topics.

The alarming part is that people have attributed so much morality and anger about the bailouts that rational conversation isn't possible. All they can talk about is corruption, laziness...and the usual fare. In their framing, they can't even comprehend the other side of the coin: that Germany's current account surplus is nearly the size of Greek GDP and wages could rise in Germany as much as wages "need to" fall in Greece.

I don't know. There can be no discussion about the best way to improve productivity or out grow debt or rolling over debt indefinitely at negative short term rates. It's all about how Greeks are taking their tax dollars so they can't have social services. In the neo-liberal framing, the only option is having less social safety net and more survival of the fittest free market type policy. It's a disaster.

Matt Franko said...

Ryan thats just textbook Darwinism 101...

Anonymous said...

"that Germany's current account surplus is nearly the size of Greek GDP..."

And Euro will flow towards the net exporter. Yet it seems that the rest of Europe is galvanized (Calvanized) against Greece.

Why does this remind me of premise that because a corporation made a profit, that PROVES it didn't do anything wrong. Is that all tied in to the Rational Man unicorn?

Matt Franko said...

" less social safety net and more survival of the fittest free market type policy."

Yes this is correct BUT then we see LePen term it "authoritarian" ??????

This is libertarianism run amuck.

This is a libertarian civil war we are watching.

LePen doesn't even know what the hell is even going on....

Her solution would probably be the same libertarian madness but on steroids....

Matt Franko said...

" less social safety net and more survival of the fittest free market type policy."

Yes this is correct BUT then we see LePen term it "authoritarian" ??????

This is libertarianism run amuck.

This is a libertarian civil war we are watching.

LePen doesn't even know what the hell is even going on....

Her solution would probably be the same libertarian madness but on steroids....

Matt Franko said...

She would leave the EUR but then advocate for a balanced budget for France or something... "so we don't become Greece..."

mike norman said...

Right. They're all clueless as to what their real options are. Empty rhetoric mixed with dangerous nationalism.

John said...

True but perhaps she should look in the mirror. What about her own neo-fascist cult engaged in brainwashing and blackmail, otherwise known as the FN?

Tom Hickey said...

She's projecting.