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Mr. Ected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 05:51 PM Original message |
Please Tell Me That Europe Isn't Morphing Into Capitalism |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. Even in healthy mixed markets, there is always a pendulum that swings through some range |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
2. Overall, Europe is moving more to the right just like we are. |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 06:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. on the contrary there is a convergence |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 04:32 AM Response to Reply #7 |
24. it HAS certainly failed in korea |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
3. see my answers in this thread |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. The results of national elections are more significant than the European Parliament ones |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 06:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. I don't think the Tories have a dog's chance. People know they'll crucify |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 06:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. The county and European elections don't give you a bit of a pause for thought? |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I think Labor shifted too far to the right and alienated its loyal voters. |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 12:28 PM Response to Reply #13 |
29. I might agree with you, but for the fact that Brown has set out his stall |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 12:31 PM Response to Reply #11 |
30. We'll see. I'm totally unimpressed by the results of the local elections orthe European ones. |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 04:47 AM Response to Reply #8 |
25. People are sick of New Labour. |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
5. They'll be SORRY... |
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asteroid2003QQ47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
6. Capitalism doesn't "morph" it metastasizes! n/t |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
9. seriously? most countries in Europe are more capitalist in nature than |
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Mr. Ected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 07:09 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Flabbergasted? As if comparative international economics is DU 101 remedial material? |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
10. that morphing was completed c. 1991 n/t |
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mwooldri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
14. The recent EU elections as far as the UK are concerned are more protest vote. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
15. lol Europe is socialist? |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 07:22 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Well, they are in some respects... |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 07:26 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Tell that to the Dutch. They actually privatized their health care system. |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 07:32 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. The privatizing of health care is national suicide IMO.. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 07:38 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. They elected a right wing government into power. |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 01:41 PM Response to Reply #23 |
33. The atheists who took over the left at an early juncture in the UK, are |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 06:02 AM Response to Reply #20 |
26. so are the swedes.... |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
16. Most of the conservatives who won in Europe did so on an anti-immigration platform... |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 06:19 PM Response to Reply #16 |
35. it's simply not true |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
17. Their citizens are not going to allow for much deveation from what works.. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
19. Don't worry too much, in addition to the points already listed, it is largely |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 06:04 AM Response to Reply #19 |
27. "get rid of them all" = the number one political sentiment among my |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
21. The thing is, while the conservative parties gained seats |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 06:09 AM Response to Original message |
28. "Socialist" is the worst thing that asshat can think of? Is "capitalist" the best thing he can say? |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
31. I suspect that Europe's turn to the right has a lot more to do with racism |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 06:15 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. xenophobic populist parties |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
32. Europe is a mixed economy |
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New Dawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
36. Europe already is capitalist. |
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