05-12-2016, 07:52 PM
(05-12-2016, 07:48 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Nice back peddle. I have laid out this exact scenario. Even to the point where the Russians have been funding some of these parties.
Been told countless times that the French would never support National Front... Yet they needed to band the other parties together to prevent a landslide victory In the last election since .
Was told groups like PEGIDA and AfD would never e relevant .... Yet they are in Germany.
The U.K. Has an EU ref in June and Brexit is winning despite Cameron campaigning to stay.
Poland elected far right.
Portugal elected an anti EU government.
Italy and Sweden will be the next getting an EU ref.
But yeah no one here ever told me how silly I was for posting about these exact things before they were even a thing.
I still maintain that AfD will not gain any sort of real power in Germany. The anti-Muslim sentiment may be high but there are too many that are fearful of another Nazi party, and that correlation is drawn to the AfD often. They will gain seats, but other parties will as well, mostly taking them away from the CDU.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
