EU Elections: Big Defeat For Globalism, Leftists As Europe Moves To The Right
Across Europe, the Greens were hardest hit.
The headlines are abuzz with the news that “far right” has won stunning victories across Europe; indeed, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz are reportedly dealt “body blows” to their governing coalitions.
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BREAKING: Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration nationalist party has just trounced Emmanuel Macron’s party in the French EU Elections, winning 34% of the vote.
The French people are sick and tired of Open Borders! 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/yn7IA5gGzZ
— Cillian (@CilComLFC) June 9, 2024
Marine Le Pen just SMASHED Macron in the EU elections pic.twitter.com/8TAuEy9U2q
— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) June 9, 2024
The results may also help alleviate the suffering of European farmers and ordinary citizens who are being crushed by ludicrous Green New Deal-esque policies. The Greens were reportedly crushed across most of Europe, including in Germany where they have been aggressive in pushing ridiculous policies hobbling farming and food production.
In Germany, Greens are imploding. They are projected to be the biggest losers from last time out, losing 8.6% of their vote in the Euro election. It is a big blow because they put major effort & money into EU elections. Their voters are the most pro-EU party in Germany (91%) pic.twitter.com/2xxdrxcQVy
— Dr. Eoin Lenihan (@EoinLenihan) June 9, 2024
Greta Thunberg was the big loser in the EU elections.
Her ideology is being rejected across Europe. https://t.co/lK8xqyS5eJ
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) June 9, 2024
Voting has ended to elect the European Union’s regional lawmakers for the next five-year term after the last remaining polls closed in Italy, as surging far-right parties dealt a body blow to two of the bloc’s most important leaders: French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
An initial projection provided by the European Union indicated far-right parties have made big gains at the European Parliament.
In France, the National Rally party of Marine Le Pen dominated the polls to such an extent that Macron immediately dissolved the national parliament and called for new elections, a massive political risk since his party could suffer more losses, hobbling the rest of his presidential term that ends in 2027.
Le Pen was delighted to accept the challenge. “We’re ready to turn the country around, ready to defend the interests of the French, ready to put an end to mass immigration,” she said, echoing the rallying cry of so many far-right leaders in other countries who were celebrating substantial wins.
. . . . In Germany, the most populous nation in the 27-member bloc, projections indicated that the AfD overcame a string of scandals involving its top candidate to rise to 16.5%, up from 11% in 2019. In comparison, the combined result for the three parties in the German governing coalition barely topped 30%.
Scholz suffered such an ignominious fate that his long-established Social Democratic party fell behind the extreme-right Alternative for Germany, which surged into second place. “After all the prophecies of doom, after the barrage of the last few weeks, we are the second strongest force,” a jubilant AfD leader Alice Weidel said.
. . . . The French National Rally crystalized it as it stood at over 30% or about twice as much as Macron’s pro-European centrist Renew party that is projected to reach around 15%.
Overall across the EU, two mainstream and pro-European groups, the Christian Democrats and the Socialists, remained the dominant forces. The gains of the far right came at the expense of the Greens, who were expected to lose about 20 seats and fall back to sixth position in the legislature. Macron’s pro-business Renew group also lost big.
. . . . Germany, traditionally a stronghold for environmentalists, exemplified the humbling of the Greens, who were predicted to fall from 20% to 12%. With further losses expected in France and elsewhere, the defeat of the Greens could well have an impact on the EU’s overall climate change policies, still the most progressive across the globe.
The center-right Christian Democratic bloc of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, which already weakened its green credentials ahead of the polls, dominated in Germany with almost 30%, easily beating Scholz’s Social Democrats, who fell to 14%, even behind the AfD.
“What you have already set as a trend is all the better – strongest force, stable, in difficult times and by a distance,” von der Leyen told her German supporters by video link from Brussels.
BREAKING: Macron has dissolved the French national assembly and called for an immediate snap legislative election on June 30 and July 7.
His party just lost massively in the EU elections. The French are speaking and they're tired of failed, liberal policies. https://t.co/rwyE7Lpb8H
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 9, 2024
The Austrian "far-right" Freedom Party came out on top in the EU elections, winning 25.7% of the votes and beating their rivals. The "moderates" and the Greens lost. They hope to maintain their momentum in the upcoming general elections.
The Freedom Party is anti-immigration… pic.twitter.com/8LlRsKu98v
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 9, 2024
The results are coming in for today’s elections for the European Parliament, and so far it appears right-leaning populist parties are routing the establishment centrist and left parties. Green Parties are taking a disproportionate share of the losses. One of Bloomberg’s headlines in their election coverage package is “Macron and Scholz Get Trounced by Far Right in EU Elections.”
. . . . Canadian journalist Leigh Phillips, who covers the environment beat, reports:
Exit polls from EU elections suggest, as predicted, a huge swing to the far right. Less noticed (but still connected) is the implosion of Greens. French Greens saw their worst performance in 30 yrs. In 2019 German Greens were 2nd place. In 2024 the hard-right AfD is 2nd. . . . The French Greens (Europe-écologie-Les Verts) even faced outright extinction. France has a 5% cut-off to enter the chamber. They very nearly had no seats at all. And the Greens spend A LOT on the European elections. It’s where they win their most votes.
. . . . Belgium’s prime minister has resigned. Belgium held national election concurrent with the European Parliament election, and the ruling coalition got smashed to bits, too.
On that last point:
Belgian Prime Minister appears to be on the verge of TEARS after his liberal party suffered a staggering defeat in the EU elections.
Alexander De Croo, who is vocally anti-Israel, RESIGNED after his party received just 5.8% of the votes.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 9, 2024
Peter Sweden’s the Freedom Corner provides a breakdown of other European countries and their results:
Netherlands:
Another big winner was the party of right-wing Geert Wilders in the Netherlands that supports the farmers. They saw a massive gain in exit polls, gaining many seats to become the second largest party.
Austria:
In Austria, the right-wing FPÖ party is projected to double their number of seats to become the largest party.
Spain:
Also in Spain the right-wing Vox party is making gains, becoming the third largest party with around 10% of the votes.
This is historic.
We are seeing a massive right-wing wave sweeping across all of Europe.
People are tired of Socialism and the woke agenda. People support the farmers. People are tired of politicians not keeping their promises.
Right-wing parties are winning the EU parliament elections by a wide margin throughout Europe. pic.twitter.com/kFDPwZasxo
— The Poll Lady (@ThePollLady) June 9, 2024
HUGE NEWS
The party of the right-wing Geert Wilders is on track to make MASSIVE gains in the EU elections.
They have been supporting the farmers 🚜
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) June 7, 2024
Needless to say, people have thoughts.
Right-wing AfD becomes the second strongest party in Germany, outperforming all three members of the ruling left-green-liberal coalition in the EU elections.
The pendulum is swinging. We are witnessing cyclical events. Nationalism is succeeding. Patriots are taking their… pic.twitter.com/XNIxkPMvBm
— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) June 9, 2024
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Right-wing AfD becomes the second strongest party in Germany, outperforming all three members of the ruling left-green-liberal coalition in the EU elections.
The pendulum is swinging. We are witnessing cyclical events. Nationalism is succeeding. Patriots are taking their countries back.
Germany is waking up. Le Pen’s party has won in France too… Europe keeps shifting further right! Netherlands already woken up under Geert Wilders.
For those of you who don't follow EU elections results:
Right-wing parties winning all over Europe!You know, I was left-wing before October 7. What else could I be, as a person who cares a lot about human rights, anti-racism, pro-LGBTQ, etc?
Never could I imagine that the Left… pic.twitter.com/IttGZdPkdY
— lelemSLP (@lelemSLP) June 9, 2024
EU elections: Spain goes far right.
-PP (Conservative party) gains 9 seats
-Vox (far right party) gains 3 seats– Socialists lose 1 seat, now minority
I hope this forces Spain into a GE also, this is a complete rejection of the government pic.twitter.com/zVU2KoNlXV
— Julius (@LeoMars75) June 9, 2024
No green policy is defensible. Not net zero. Not anything. Greens are the biggest liars the world has witnessed. What needs to be 'net zero' is green influence.https://t.co/LrsEkpbJ4q @JamesCrisp6 pic.twitter.com/qZkmTYOfPb
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) June 9, 2024
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Far right = not communist. Just like it has always been.
I agree with your implication that we gotta do a better job of framing and reject the BS lefty propaganda label of ‘far right’. FWIW your definition is incorrect. The LEFT comprises both communism and socialism to include ‘national socialists’ aka NAZI.
Neither of those totalitarian big govt ideologies are compatible with those on the center right who prioritize individual liberty, individual responsibility, capitalism and ultimately put far more trust in the judgement of free Citizens than any govt office holder or bureaucrat.
Agree, chief. Communists think fascists are far right when in reality they’re both leftist, authoritarian dipshits.
exactly right!
It’s not nearly as simple as that, since the “far right” includes socialists too. Le Pen is a dyed-in-the-wool socialist, and yet she’s categorized as “far right”
FACT CHECk #FALSE
Described as more democratic and republican than her nationalist father Jean-Marie Le Pen, the previous leader of the party, then named the National Front (French: Front National, pronounced [fʁɔ̃ nɑsjɔnal]; FN), she has attempted to detoxify and soften the party’s image. This has been done via reformulation of policy positions, and expulsion of members accused of racism, antisemitism, or Pétainism, including her father.[3][4][need quotation to verify] Marine Le Pen has also relaxed some political positions of the party, advocating for civil unions for same-sex couples instead of her party’s previous opposition to legal recognition of same-sex partnerships, accepting unconditional abortion and withdrawing the death penalty from her platform.[5][6][7][8]
On economic policy, Le Pen favours protectionism as an alternative to free trade.[9] She supports economic nationalism,[10] the separation of investment and retail banking,[11] and energy diversification,[12] and is opposed to the privatization of public services and social security,[13][14][15] speculation on international commodity markets,[13] and the Common Agricultural Policy.[16]
Le Pen is opposed to globalization, which she blames for various negative economic trends, and opposes European Union supranationalism and federalism, instead favouring a loosely confederate ‘Europe of the Nations’.[17] She has called for France to leave the Eurozone;[18] however, it was reported in May 2019 that she no longer wishes for France to leave the euro currency.[19] She has called for a referendum on France leaving the EU.[20] She has been a vocal opponent of the Treaty of Lisbon,[21] and opposes EU membership for Turkey and Ukraine.[22][23] Le Pen has pledged to take France out of NATO and the US sphere of influence.[citation needed] She proposes the replacement of the World Trade Organization,[24][25] and the abolition of the International Monetary Fund.[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Marine_Le_Pen
Hey, dipshit, what you quoted verifies what I wrote!!!! As I said in the first place, her economic policies are solidly, absolutely, on the left, far to the left of the US Democrats, somewhere in Bernie Sanders territory or even further left. She’s a f***ing socialist. And yet she is categorized as “far right”.
Sorry, I have to agree with Millhouse on this. I once read an interview she gave to a reporter, and to me she sounded like a national socialist. Specifically, she wanted the state to take over various businesses for the “good of the people.”
Jack,
The leftist totalitarians have run a superbly successful multi decade PR campaign to convince vast swaths of folks that Fascism and Nazis (abbreviation of National Socialist German Workers Party) are of the right. They are of the left which always wants bigger govt and to control the economy.
The most basic economic difference of communism and fascism is that commies seize/nationalize the means of production while the fascists/national socialists exert control via intensive regulations and govt bureaucrats who closely monitor for compliance and swiftly punish those who don’t comply with gov’t edicts/diktat.
Reminds me of how our Democrat socialists have convinced much of the country that the Dems have always been on the side of blacks and other minorities, when in fact, they WERE the KKK and had to be outvoted to get any civil right legislation passed.
Everything the left has done since has been to buy black votes, while simultaneously destabilizing their family structure and keep the in poverty for perpetual control.
No socialist is on the ‘far right’. They could be in the center depending upon the flavor of the particular socialist policy(s) they advocate for within an overall framework that emphasizes individual liberty, individual responsibility and capitalism instead of big gov’t programs which come with big gov’t power/control and the taxes to support the bureaucracy created to exercise that power and control. Many of these sorts are in the GoP but describing them as ‘far right’ on the linear political spectrum is incorrect.
If you want to make an argument that within the domestic political spectrum of Nation X that the political polices/ideology of Y politician is ‘far right’ b/c there ain’t any real alternative to thr right THAT particular politician… that’s fine but use the caveats. IOW what you are describing is the ‘cleanest’ dirty shirt in the hamper.
That is patently untrue, as evidence by the fact that Le Pen is practically the epitome of the “far right”, and yet she is a socialist. For that matter, the Fascist and Nazi Parties in their day were the very epitome of the “far right”, despite their both being explicitly socialist. The term “far right” just doesn’t mean what it sounds like.
Milhouse,
You are demonstrating my point; the leftists have waged a very successful propaganda campaign to convince folks that Fascism is ‘ ‘far right’ when it is in fact simply different flavor of leftist totalitarianism. Mussolini the ‘Father of Fascism’ was a creation of the left, incubated in leftist totalitarian commie ideology. Stalinist USSR supported him until they figured out he was a different flavor of leftist than a commie.
Le Pen may in fact be in the specific context of the prevailing ideological framework of the current French political spectrum to the ‘right’ of Macron and the Greens but that’s not exactly a high hurdle. So if you choose to assert that Le Pen is of ‘the far right’ be honest enough to include the caveats and context.
IMO the linear political spectrum runs from left to right, zero to 100. Galt’s Gulch is all the way to the right at 100. The Stalinist Soviet Union is all the way to the left at zero. That would put Fascism at maybe 5 or 6 and thus much closer to communism than the ideological center of 50 much less the ‘far right’.
IOW to me the more socialist, more gov’t power, more gov’t control and the less individual liberty and the less individual autonomy from gov’t oversight and control then the further left of center that political ideology is. Feel free to disagree.
CommoChief, that is simply not how the term “right” was used in the 1930s, or at all historically. The Nazis and Fascists were the far right. That’s what “far right” meant.
However often and whatever duration that a term is used incorrectly doesn’t alter the fact it remains incorrect.
The fascists were an offshoot of communism. That is a historical fact. The National Socialist German Workers Party, the non abbreviated name of the Nazi Party, is of the LEFT. Socialists are of the Left.
I understand that you feel that b/c some choose to label Le Pen as ‘far right’ then that’s the end of it. That is illogical. If a bunch of people, Heck a majority of people even, decide to falsely claim the Moon is made of cheese we are under no obligation to accept that as the final word on the subject. Doesn’t matter how many people say it nor for how many generations they spout off inaccurate claims nor how many people choose not to question and just go along with it. It is still inaccurate.
I would be more accurate to say Europe is moving back to the Center.
See, I think that is over-optimistic. This is a win, but it’s not the win we are looking for.
Consider how far left the Overton Window had to slide before it saw any correction at all. It was this -><- close to derailing permanently. These periodic welcome corrections are just part of a larger political cycle, and the larger cycle continues to trend downwards.
During the Era of Good Feelings, the freedoms one had in the USA were second to none, either historically or geographically. We aspire to that state again, but at this rate we shall never re-attain it.
Henry Bowman, the freedoms we enjoy in the USA are still second to none. There isn’t anywhere in the world where people have more freedom. That’s unfortunate, but still true.
Yes, but that’s only because the state of freedom elsewhere has degraded even more precipitously than our own has. In a race to the bottom, we are in last place, but we are still running. Soon, no doubt, we will be boasting that we are the freest totalitarian society in the world.
“Far right” used to mean either clericalist or monarchist, as the right side was initially seen in France of the 1780s, but let’s all agree that there are few people today who fit either of those definitions.
“Far right” today is a slur invented by good old Uncle Joe Stalin to make clear that his party, the Bolsheviks, was the only proper leftist party, and anyone who disagreed with him was to the “right” (and got a bullet for their troubles).
This is why both Mussolini (a socialist who developed fascism after the Italian socialist party threw him out for being too militant) and Hitler were cast as “far right”, even though their policies, economics, and ideologies were thoroughly socialist. They were to the right of Stalin as they substituted nationalism or race in place of class and the proletariat. Thus, “far right”.
The Hamburg refugees to the U.S., in founding the “New School”, answered to Uncle Joe and were happy to perpetuate his alignment of things. Hence “far right” today.
And now you know.
As the late great Paul Harvey would say, “the rest of the story.”
The thing is that they themselves identified as the right. So it wasn’t Stalin’s invention. That’s just how the term was used. It’s language, it doesn’t have to make any sense.
I think you missed the point. Milhouse. It isn’t the origin of the term “right” (which came from how parties were seated in some historic European Parliament or Assembly) but the propaganda practice of far leftist assholes dubbing anything less left than they were as “far” right.
correct
b/c the narrative is dependent on who holds the power
which is why we should not allow the leftists narrative to control society
as their goal is always and has always been
government over people
Milhouse,
“Far-right” does not include Socialists. Therefore, LePen is not far-right. Don’t call her that just because the left does. Don’t use the left’s terms. Reject them. You don’t want to call her National Socialist, but call her maybe, Nationalist Left.
Sorry, she is “far right”, because that’s what the term means, and has always historically meant. She defines the “far right”. You can’t just change the language because it’s not sensible.
Oh oh.
“It’s language, it doesn’t have to make any sense.”
“You can’t just change the language because it’s not sensible.”
These statements of yours are close enough together to swap fast neutrons.
Over the years, while talking with Europeans, I came to realize their meaning of liberal vs. conservative, right vs. left is nearly opposite of what we in the US consider right or left, conservative or liberal. It gets confusing, particularly when you consider socialism, nazism, nationalism, etc.
Family values, faith and honesty are far right platforms?
Sign me up against the extreme, radical, far left commie phukks please.
To be an American and believe in our Culture , makes you a radical
Let’s just all agree that communists ( especially 5th column communists in this country) are our enemy and worthy of a bullet to the head
Our culture was a culture of freedom organized around liberty concepts developed by white men in the British Isles. When deployed and pursued by (largely) white men originally from the British Isles, it resulted in the most successful and prosperous country the world had ever known.
Envious parasites from other countries explained that this prosperity was entirely due to evils such as racism, theft, racism, oppression, and racism; and henceforth a new, less “systemic” system would be developed to run the US. This system would be based on a melange of social and political systems that all these other ethnicities had flogged for centuries, without achieving any results exhibiting more than a purely random chance of entirely temporary prosperity, except (of course) for the elite running the systems.
So far, it looks like it’s working out great.
“Envious parasites.” I love it!
You just encapsulated the Democrat party into easily understood terms,
I like the air-quotes around “far right” being used by everyone discussing this on X/Twitter. It is such a dis to the press that is trying to frame the election results are a problem to be solved.
Agreed. ‘Right’ and ‘Left’ in Europe is still socialism to communism spectrum. But notice the scare quotes NOT used by msm: ‘far left; extreme left; center-left; etc.’ to describe candidates or parties. Those adjectives are only paired with ‘right’ candidates or parties, and it speaks volumes.
Just like pro-legal immigration makes one “anti-immigrant.”
Wow. You are the bearer of surprisingly good tidings, Ms. Slippers. Thank you.
Be cautious of celebrating.
It’s a start, but in Europe, their ‘right’ party would still be pretty flaming leftists here.
Wait to see what they actually do before bragging about it.
“What you have already set as a trend is all the better – strongest force, stable, in difficult times and by a distance,” von der Leyen told her German supporters by video link from Brussel”
Confer latent is a freaken disaster a d I’m hoping this assessment is not correct.
von der Leyen
Don’t know how that got posted . Phone and hospital drugs, not good combination
She runs the EU and will run the EU no matter how EU Parliament elections go. The actual EU power is the commission and it is not in any form democratic. It is actually a dictatorship with a phony Parliament.
Who is that guy in the dress with the blonde wig always near Macron?
In case there’s any confusion, I am, in no way, trying to disparage Marine Le Pen.
Sorry, my reply was meant for Millhouse.
Below you say “far right doesn’t mean what it sounds like.” IMHO the issue is the media are confused by national socialism. They focus on the national part, which they identify with the right while neglecting the socialist part, which is identified as being Leftist. Note that the noun is socialist while the adjective is national. That would mean Le Pen should be identified as Leftist.
But she isn’t. And she is the major beneficiary of the voter swing that is the subject of this story. So we can’t leave her out of the discussion! If we’re talking about the “far right” having a huge win in the EU elections, then we are talking not just about Meloni, Wilders, Orban, or Farage, but also and mostly about Le Pen and AfD. That’s why I said it’s complicated.
Macron liking significantly older women makes him extremely weird in every culture.
Instead of suggesting his 71 year old wife is a man and making yourself look like well a jackass why don’t you remind people Macron has a wife who graduated high school and college before he was born?
Unlike the calling her a man that one is actually true, and makes Macron look bad instead of making you look bad?
This is intended as criticism because the lie about her being a man really has to die. It was stupid, evidence free, and unacceptable when Candace did it and is still unacceptable with you doing it. How would you like your grandmother being called a man because she is no longer pretty?
She married her student, left 4 children to follow him
Pretty disgusting all around, even for the French
I agree.
And how is calling her a man helpful?
Does it bring attention to that?
Does it weaken Macron?
Or does it make you and anyone associated with you look bad?
Concise did not draw attention to that behavior, did not draw attention to Macron’s desire to be married to someone that much older than him, and instead engaged in calling her a man, something that is untrue and that makes us look bad.
Asking “is that his wife, mother or grandmother” would actually draw attention to her seducing a student and leaving her children, and would draw attention to how weird Macron is.
Calling her a man draws attention to yourself behaving badly.
His mom? She’s so thin, yikes!
you mean the pedo teacher???
Wonderful outcome for mainstream sanity !
Socialism is a drug….. I think we see France trying to get off the addiction but will fall right back …as anything tried will feel like going cold turkey when it isn’t.
A society whose members’ goals include yet one more workday off an already ridiculously brief work week will never shake an addition to socialism.
The cold turkey will be the inevitable, predictable looting and riots by the immigrants.
Like a typical day in San Francisco.
Now… if only the United States would get with the program.
Prompt deportation via human canon would be fast and efficient. There was a time when I thought 10,000 deployed along the Mexican border would do the job, now I think we should also deploy them along all our ocean frontage. No, I do not care about their feelings 🙂
Ukraine has proven land mines can be an effective deterrent to invasion.
The northern border is taking a hit as well due to the very liberal immigration policies of Tyrant Trudeau.
Biden says we can’t because the US doesn’t have enough airplanes to deport anyone
Don’t need planes if you turn them back at the border with actual border enforcement…..and indiscriminate gunfire.
European countries swing more left than right. My guess the swing was more to the centralist. That is a start.
There are no Far Right parties in Europe. Only center-left and far left.
Maybe the votes were always there, they just couldn’t cheat enough to over come the rigging.
despite the lefts then encouraging even more street violence to convince the masses that b/c of the right wing there is violence
the world has to move towards capitalism and stop the phony leftist agenda
of “Utopia”
Good, some votes have been won. Now comes the war.
Will Macron, the pampered midget, go crying to his mommy? Oops, I mean wife. I get them confused.
“Far right” in Europe = slightly fewer Saracens might invade during their tenure, or not.
All too late. The snakes are already inside the tent and are multiplying like crazy.
If you’re anti-illegal immigration, pro-border security and anti-Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist, you’re now slandered as allegedly “right-wing,” by the leftist/Dhimmi-crat media.
But, the allegedly, fallaciously “enlightened” regressive radicals and subversives who gleefully support unrestrained illegal immigration, open borders and Jew-hating, goose-stepping, genocidal Islamofascists and Muslim supremacists, are never referred to as “far-left.” They’re allegedly the “sane” ones, LOL.
Smeared as not just ‘right wing’ aka to the right of center but instead as ‘far right’ which decades of relentless lefty propaganda has attempted to make synonymous with fascists aka Nazi ideology when in fact fascism and communism are both leftist totalitarian ideologies.
The Left wants to limit individual liberty, replacing individual responsibility with group/class/tribal rights and obligations. The Right respects individual liberty, pushes individual responsibility while rejecting group/class/tribal rights, responsibility and obligations.
The EU Parliament decides nothing, the real power is the unelected bureaucracy and the left will always control that. No matter who or what wins the Parliament it will change nothing about the EU.
That sounds familiar….
Time to toss a mongoose into that tent.
Right and left come from the sides of the aisle in the French government.
On the right were the clericalists, the monarchists, the royalists all the autocracy fans.
On the left were the liberals, the republicans, the democrats, the libertines, all the self governance fans.
ALL our modern political concepts stem from the left side of that aisle.
But the modern left comes from those who favored a more autocratic ‘self’ governance. This is where the Hitlers, Stalins, Lenins, Marxes and Maos live.
So it could be accurately said that the modern left comes from the right side of the ancient left.
Hence the iconic Nolan Chart, which rates political philosophies in two dimensions.