It's a strange turn of affairs for the US to be passed on the Left by (Western) Europe. Has this ever happened before? Maybe for a while at the beginning of the New Deal -- but certainly not since the end of WWII. Actually, with perhaps the exception of Spain, is there any country right now in the EU more to he Left than the United States?
Gee, thanks Pepe, I'd plumb forgotten that once the Vichy Youth have broken into "Tomorrow belongs to me" it was game over and we should all just shuffle off quietly to the Gulags or Stalags of PPonia.
" Actually, with perhaps the exception of Spain, is there any country right now in the EU more to he Left than the United States?"
Well, Yes. Brown's England. About the same in foreign policy but domestically definitely further down the road to a dictatorial Socialism. Keeping to that domestic line, Spain, yes. Belgium, Norway,perhaps. hmmmm, maybe that's about it. We have met the enemy, and he was the Pepean Column.
finer than you think. We'd make sure you'd shuffle along beside us, dreamin' of your Kayla and whining for that champagne you'd drink no more forever. The immiseration of your mass would be the silver lining in that cloud.
AA: Yes, of course -- the Brits are ahead of us, down the Glorious Path to Socialism. Belgium: naah. Norway? I kind of doubt it -- why?
Let me put it another way: which country right now is closest in spirit to what the US of A was in its glory days (say, circa 1984)? Czechs look all right to me, though too much a rump of a country for my taste. Poland, perhaps?
From the context, I take Pepe thinks limited government, as envisioned by the Founding Fathers when they drafted the Constitution, is a "failed paradigm". The paradigm Pepe pines after, of course, is the one embodied in Das Kapital, which he thinks has been much more successful.
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Europe is now as confused as Pepe. Obama ain't, though, he knows what he's aiming at.
It's a strange turn of affairs for the US to be passed on the Left by (Western) Europe. Has this ever happened before? Maybe for a while at the beginning of the New Deal -- but certainly not since the end of WWII. Actually, with perhaps the exception of Spain, is there any country right now in the EU more to he Left than the United States?
you boys need to get used to the notion that your political ideals are a thing of the past.
Gee, thanks Pepe, I'd plumb forgotten that once the Vichy Youth have broken into "Tomorrow belongs to me" it was game over and we should all just shuffle off quietly to the Gulags or Stalags of PPonia.
that'd be fine.
" Actually, with perhaps the exception of Spain, is there any country right now in the EU more to he Left than the United States?"
Well, Yes. Brown's England. About the same in foreign policy but domestically definitely further down the road to a dictatorial Socialism.
Keeping to that domestic line, Spain, yes. Belgium, Norway,perhaps.
hmmmm, maybe that's about it.
We have met the enemy, and he was the Pepean Column.
"that'd be fine."
finer than you think. We'd make sure you'd shuffle along beside us, dreamin' of your Kayla and whining for that champagne you'd drink no more forever. The immiseration of your mass would be the silver lining in that cloud.
We'd make sure you'd shuffle
it will take more than a ibereunuch to "make sure" of that.
you'd not be surprised at how little it will take to make you shuffle.
uh-huh
does anybody take you seriously (other than yourself, that is) ?
AA: Yes, of course -- the Brits are ahead of us, down the Glorious Path to Socialism. Belgium: naah. Norway? I kind of doubt it -- why?
Let me put it another way: which country right now is closest in spirit to what the US of A was in its glory days (say, circa 1984)? Czechs look all right to me, though too much a rump of a country for my taste. Poland, perhaps?
the beauty of a failed paradigm disappearing.
Which failed paradigm are you referring to, Nawlo Shuffler?
From the context, I take Pepe thinks limited government, as envisioned by the Founding Fathers when they drafted the Constitution, is a "failed paradigm". The paradigm Pepe pines after, of course, is the one embodied in Das Kapital, which he thinks has been much more successful.
well, that and mein kampf of course.
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