The Dumbest Thing Said Today By a Very Serious Person
by tristero
For the moment, supporters of the European Union don’t need to panic.
Bullshit. And he knows it. From the same essay:
Of the five individual political parties with the biggest representation in the new European Parliament, four are anti-European Union.
…there is no choice but to admit that the populist far right is becoming a permanent feature of European politics.
I wasn’t born until long after the Holocaust. But I am quite aware of what happened the last time the populist far right became a permanent feature of European politics – 8 million people were slaughtered. Now is exactly the right time to panic.
Krastev also wins an award for The Second Dumbest Thing Said Today By a Very Serious Person. From the same article:
None of these [far right] parties seems any longer to support exiting the European Union or the eurozone. Instead, they want to change it from within.
Bullshit. They’re not interested in change, but destruction. Just wait.
Better yet, Europeans who care about the future of the world need to do whatever they can to get these people out of power fast.