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January 31, 2015

Syriza promised what Greek voters wanted: the impossible.

The party is run by unreconstructed Marxists nostalgic for the Soviet era.

But it won, and won big, chiefly on a platform of negation and repudiation. Syriza stands firmly against the European Union, the euro, austere budgets, debt payments, capitalism, the Germans, the banks, “the rich, the markets, the super-rich, the top 10 percent.” The status quo became the enemy. Those who promised to smash it with the most destructive zeal have become saviors.
The crisis of European democracy | the fifth wave

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 31, 2015 9:41 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Now they can walk the walk. We'll see how that turns out.

Posted by: BillH [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2015 2:37 PM

Ah, it took them long enough. The "Republicans" who were lefty socialists were tossed out in the late Thirties by Franco and his "Nationalists", a hard-line conservative bunch. After roughly seventy-five years the lefties are now back in power. Bring everybody down to the same low level except for those that gotta pay for it all.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2015 10:40 PM

Now they can, much like North Korea and Venezuela, find out what equality of misery is all about.

Posted by: Jimmy J. [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 3, 2015 8:16 AM

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