This is exactly the problem I thought we’d see begin to manifest itself.

It is the swinging of the pendulum. When I was in Austria a few years back, I sensed it then. Then, last year, not one but two far right, anti-immigration parties made big gains winning a combined 29%. The conservative Austrian People’s Party and the Social Democrats, who form the governing coalition, had their worst showings since World War II.

Italy, too, is seeing a resurgence of the far right.

Far left liberalism has run amok, so much so that moderate voices feel barely have a chance. Those on the fringe, who would normally consider themselves moderately right, get a sense they are overwhelmed, which could easily lead to moving further and further right, becoming more and more hard-lines.

It wasn’t Naziism’s great ideas that led to their ascendancy, but people’s fear of communism, Jews (or, more accurately, the anti-Jew propaganda), and any other Bogeyman the likes of Goebbles could think up. I think we could be seeing the same thing today, except that the bogeyman that is Islamism is not a fabrication. When it pushes, we must push back against it.

So, back to my point originally: the pendulum has been pushed so far left, many feel the only way they can have “balance” is by not being moderate but being more hard-core.

What do we get? Ron Paul and tea parties (which, by the way, I think were just fine. The tea parties, not Ron Paul)

If we continue to see liberalism run off the chain, and it appears we will at least for the next year, the far right will continue to build.

Not to kiss any ass, but sites like LGF give me hope that moderates and true conservatives will continue to have a voice and not have to resort to being Ron Paul kooks.