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The collaspe of European democracy
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Be afraid, be very afraid. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried." ~ Winston Churchill.
You are slowly seeing the collapse of democracy in Europe in 2012. The Great Depression of the 1930s was the worst economic slump ever to affect the United States. It was not just a national economic crisis, but one which spread to virtually every country. Once asked if there had ever previously been anything like the Great Depression. Keynes replied, "Yes. It was called the Dark Ages, and it lasted 400 years.
In the 1930's when capitalism collapsed countries experimented with other forms of government such as communism and fascism to get out of the slump.
I have got news for you. That calamity is repeating itself again in 2012 and may follow with another war. Europe has always dragged the United States (like it or not) as the global policeman and champion of democracy
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."
- Statue of Liberty donated by France. From the old world, to the new world.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, French for "Liberty, equality, fraternity (brotherhood)", is the national motto of France.
into two World Wars and more recently the breakup of Yugoslavia and the civil war that followed in 1990. "The ethnic, national, and religious rivalries that had plagued central and eastern Europe for centuries would erupt again. None of the borders were rational- historically, linguistically, religiously or ethnically." said Jim Rogers.
Democracy here is dying not with a single giant blow but with many small cuts, critics say, through the legal processes of Parliament that add up to a slow-motion coup. And in its drift toward authoritarian government, aided by popular disaffection with political gridlock and a public focused mainly on economic hardship, Hungary stands as a potentially troubling bellwether for other, struggling Eastern European countries with weak traditions of democratic government.
nytimes.com
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