re: #136 Backwoods Sleuth

Meanwhile, in The Netherlands…it’s Geert Wilders!

Yeah, this will be a mess. His party looks like it has 35 out of 150 seats, and there are essentially four power blocs. The left two blocs won’t deal with this asshole or his party, while the current governing party was hemming and hawing about it but is now saying that they would not accept Wilders as prime minister. So I would assume some sort of fucked up anti-Wilders coalition will eventually emerge but it could take a while.

There are too many Americans who think that, because a lot of Western Europe has universal healthcare and high government spending and taxes, they are like lefty Americans. They aren’t: my theory is that most of Western Europe is like 1950s America, where there wasn’t a problem with taxing and spending because it was controlled by Our People and going to Our People and the Other People didn’t matter. Once the Other People start being heard, all the largesse goes out the fucking window.