Bernie on Greece....
He points out that the party in Greece that came in 3rd during the last election is essentially a neoNazi party and he fears that the punitive austerity measures will make the climate ripe for this party to gain power....
Ideas? Is he on or off the mark here?
What many people do not know about Greece today is that the party that came in third in recent elections is called Golden Dawn,” Sanders warned. “Some people call it the neo-Nazi party, but other people say there is nothing ‘neo’ about it.”
“In my view, we should learn from history. We should understand that when democracy fails and people cannot get what they voted for because of outside forces it leads to contempt for democracy and people vote for parties like Golden Dawn.”
“I am expressing solidarity with the people of Greece in a time of cruel and counter-productive policies,” he declared at conference he arranged on Capitol Hill. Sanders called it a full-blown “humanitarian crisis” that other nations, including America, must not ignore; 26 percent unemployment, 30 percent in poverty, 50-60 percent of young people without jobs. Yet the financial masters of Europe (the bankers who lent Greece all the money in the first place) are imposing a new round of crippling austerity—deeper suffering—in effort to get their money back.
Why should we care? Bernie explained. “The people of Greece are being told their voices are not being heard,” he said. “Their misery does not matter. That democracy itself does not matter.” The Greek predicament endangers all of us, he warned. What the Germans and allied creditor nations are doing to Greece has a chilling similarity to what the American, British and French victors imposed on defeated Germany after World War I—the punishing burden of debts impossible to repay. That financial vengeance ultimately deranged the German populace and led to Adolph Hitler.
“What many people do not know about Greece today is that the party that came in third in recent elections is called Golden Dawn,” Sanders warned. “Some people call it the neo-Nazi party, but other people say there is nothing ‘neo’ about it.”
“In my view, we should learn from history. We should understand that when democracy fails and people cannot get what they voted for because of outside forces it leads to contempt for democracy and people vote for parties like Golden Dawn.”
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