End of Liberalism/Return of Fascism

[Kasz216]

scottie said:

Kasz216 said:

scottie said:
I'm confused by the OP.

You say people will either head to the extremes, or to the centre.

What exactly do you mean by centre? Are you referring specifically to a position slightly more right wing than the democrats and slightly less right wing than the Americans, or are you using the (globally) more common definition of centrist being much more left wing than the democrats?

Enough with that when it's clearly not true.  I mean hell, compare the US reaction to their finanical crisis vs the Europeon reaction to this one.  Which group is all about the conservative austerity for bailouts?

America's reaction: Give money to large corporations so that they can continue to give large bonuses to the 1%, which is the true aim of right wing governments.

 

Iceland's reaction - the rich are not bailed out using tax payers money, ie strives for a fair balance between protection for rich and poor, ie the true aim of left wing governments

http://occupywallst.org/forum/icelands-banksters-arrested-not-bailed-out/

Uh... no.  You've got that backwords.  The bailouts are a leftwing reaction... or at least they were in the US.  The bank bailouts had to be voted for twice in the House because the first time something like 66% of republicans voted it down.

Rightwing governments lean towards small non-interventionist governments which air more on the side of "Letting the market work itself out."

Giant bailouts ain't that.

You know, the corporate bailouts were what the Tea Party was mad about first, before OWS even hit the scene.  The massive deficit spending caused by bailouts republicans were against and failed stimulus spending.

Additionally, Republicans voted down the bailout the first time around in favor of letting them fail.

So unless you want to argue the Republicans are more leftwing then the Democrats....