Black Sheep Nervous
Slowly, like glacier ice just beginning to melt, the deep-freeze Europe's elites have decreed for poltical debate continues to show tell-tale signs of cracking. Those of us in the United States who broadly agree with the platforms of the European nationalist right would do well to take heed. What is happening in Dutch towns, Swiss cantons and German states right now--voters abandoning their traditional political parties to those willing to state where they stand honestly on the national question--will be happening in Iowa, Florida and California soon enough.
From Swissinfo:
None of this was foreseeable as little as five years ago. Just as no one now who is watching American politics as usual can foresee a time when yesterday's men and women like Guiliani, Clinton, Romney, and Obama become obsolete overnight.
The task of the Right in the United States is to watch and heed the lessons, to organize and prepare for the time when our message finds a reception. Every day, ordinary men and women turn to their computers hoping to find out there someone who is seeing what they are seeing, is fearful of losing what must not be lost, who is thinking what they are thinking.
We must be ready for them, for the trickle that will become a flood.
As the ice melts.
From Swissinfo:
Rightwing posts record result in elections
The rightwing Swiss People's Party and the Greens have made the biggest gains in Sunday's parliamentary elections.
Near-final results show the rightwing posted a record result, while the centre-left Social Democrats suffered a major defeat. The four main parties pledged to continue their long-standing cooperation despite an unusually heated election campaign.
Final results as well as a breakdown of seats for the House of Representatives are not expected until Monday morning.
The People's Party took 28.8 per cent of the vote in the elections for the House, up 2.1 per cent on 2003, according to the gfs.berne polling institute.
If confirmed the People's Party posted the best result among the four governing parties since 1919 and could win up to 62 of the 200 seats in the House.
The Social Democrats appear to have suffered the biggest loss, dropping up to nine seats and taking 19.3 per cent of the vote, down by four per cent on 2003.
The Radicals lost five seats as their share of the vote dropped 1.5 per cent to 15.8 per cent, while the other centre-right party, the Christian Democrats, recorded slight gains, winning three seats and 14.7 per cent, up 0.3 per cent.
These four parties have held more than 75 per cent of the seats in parliament for decades.
None of this was foreseeable as little as five years ago. Just as no one now who is watching American politics as usual can foresee a time when yesterday's men and women like Guiliani, Clinton, Romney, and Obama become obsolete overnight.
The task of the Right in the United States is to watch and heed the lessons, to organize and prepare for the time when our message finds a reception. Every day, ordinary men and women turn to their computers hoping to find out there someone who is seeing what they are seeing, is fearful of losing what must not be lost, who is thinking what they are thinking.
We must be ready for them, for the trickle that will become a flood.
As the ice melts.
