Curiosity wrote:
By the way, the nasty Austrian Nazi chap did get around 46.7%, but this was a re-run of the past election that was annulled. In the original he got 49.7%. So his vote share decreased, which is a good thing.
See, this is the thing I just don't get.
On the one hand, people can get very hot under the collar at times over, say, very mildly inappropriate and even wholly inadvertent use of mere language here (say, some unintended mildly sexist
faux pas or other; a 1980s anachronism perhaps), with all sorts of ensuing "twit-storms" or whatever....... yet some fucking
Neo Nazi *just* misses being elected head of state, right on our doorstep in *Austria* of all places, and Italy's government falls on the same day, and the response is pretty much "meh"...?
I suppose it's an overload/this does not compute moment. Me? I can't see the first thing "good" about it, and just because I personally can't do much about it as an individual surely does not mean it's not even worth discussing? I pretty much can't influence anything at all in politics, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about this stuff.
You reap what you sow. Note that I will never, ever, EVER excuse anyone for using their democratic, hard fought for and hard won vote to vote for an extreme Right (or Left) candidate, regardless of perceived or actual provocation. But it surely *is* clear that the terrible backlash is coming from years of quite ordinary people being force-fed bullshit - that they're damn well going to like things they never wanted or asked for like the Euro, full political union, open borders, unfettered immigration - and if they don't, well, they're somehow evil fascists or whatever. So yeah, under the circumstances, somewhat ironic, huh...
So in short, I very much blame the utterly perverse, clueless political vanity of the Europhile Left for this dangerous situation whose tipping point is surely now well exceeded.
People are angry.