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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (109204)	9/21/2007 6:18:08 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, >Wayne, Actually, huge portions of Europe has just been regained as democracies, not lost.< Some of those may not be lost eventually because they haven't been castrated by political correctness yet. As far as I am concerned others are already probably lost regardless of how they run their governments now. I haven't studied each country in detail, but I've read enough to already start having opinions on the rest of Europe. France, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Sweden and a few others will all probably be toast in about 50-100 years. The problems that have already begun in those places will accelerate and become very apparent in as little as 20 years unless there is a major overhaul in the current thinking. Switzerland is showing some signs of hope lately, but it is/was also on the path to being lost. I would have complete faith in the Germans, but they have effectively been neutered by their history and pretty much wear pink panties like the French. >Nazis wiped out the Commies< I sometimes wonder who I would have voted for if I was alive in Germany at that time. It's an easy choice with the benefit of history, but I doubt it would have been as easy back then. I would have hated both for different reasons. The eventual horrors of the Nazis (and the Communists elsewhere for that matter) weren't really apparent yet. So it would have come down to some parts of the philosophy I could cope with. Without the benefit of history, I think my distaste for the Commies would have been greater. Assuming I didn't fall into one of the "purge categories" of either side and had no other choice, at least the Nazis would have let me keep my money.