Election in Greece

While you were watching the socialist get elected to lead France over the cliff, you may have missed the election results in Greece.

 

A member of the neo-Nazi 'Golden Dawn' party in Athens. al-Reuters via der Spiegel

 

Dang, they changed the headline! It used to be "something-or-other [comma] Neo-Nazis Gain Seats."

Greek voters dealt a blow to eurozone hopes that Athens will stick to its austerity commitments as parties opposing more cuts, including neo-Nazis, won almost 60-percent support in an election Sunday.

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Neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn was also set to enter parliament for the first time since the end of the military junta in 1974, with 6.5-7.5 percent, making it the sixth-biggest party in the 300-seat chamber with some 20 lawmakers.

Leader Nikos Michaloliakos said his party would fight against "world usurers" and the "slavery" of an EU-IMF loan agreement he likened to a "dictatorship".

"The time for fear has come," he said.

 

I have a feeling that Germany - who is to Greece like China is to the U.S. - is not going to be too happy with this, on multiple levels.

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

The EU has been on shaky ground since day one, and we are now, I suspect, seeing the beginning of its end. A new French government that sees eye-to-eye with the Germans on virtually nothing, and a Greek government whose neo-Nazi leanings are sure to be anathema to Angela Merkel -- none of this bodes well for the future of the eurozone, which was an idea doomed to failure from the outset. The naivete of the EU's founders -- who really seemed to believe that Europe could or would set aside its seething hatreds and and settle into continental bliss -- was and remains a more impossible dream than any ever dreamt by Don Quixote. None of today's EU news is surprising -- but one detail is especially disturbing: "world usurers" has always been a fascist (and communist) euphemism for "Jews." The EU is already marinated in Muslim Jew-hatred; now it appears that non-Muslim Jew-hatred may be gettting ready for an encore performance. This will bear close watching in the months ahead.