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Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]
@mafketis
Still, it appears that most the Catalonians wanted to have a referendum of some sorts. In some cases, I'd saw laws were meant to be broken only to be reformed later - i.e. civil rights movement, females being able to drive in Saudi Arabia, etc.
A referendum held in Catalonia in 2014 indicated that 92% of the 2.3 million voters supported Catalonia's transformation into a state. On 9 November 2015, Catalan lawmakers approved a plan for secession from Spain by 2017 with a majority vote 72 to 63.
Perhaps its a bad example. Nonetheless, the EU only appears to support referendums, ideologies, parties, agendas, laws, etc that are in line with their own. Even if a EU member's citizens overwhelmingly reject something the EU mandates, say the issue of migrants from me and Africa in Poland, they will criticize the country and its leadership - even the citizens as being islamaphobic. It criticized UK for exercising its right to leave the EU and said they'd experience tremendous economic hardship. Or for example criticizing Romania for tearing down illegally built structures and say the government and people are anti-Roma. etc etc
EU countries and the citizenry were able to decide for themselves, there wouldn't have been such an outcry nor this type of move by the Far Right:-)
You're right in a way. There wouldn't be any need for this anti-migrant movement if the EU wasn't forcing us to accept migrants and leftist quasi socialist ideologies onto the citizens of Poland (As well as other nations). We want to decide figure our own political and social issues we don't need this. We joined the EU for economic reasons and political cooperation - not for people to tell us what age our retirements should be, who we should and shouldn't let into our borders (save for EU citizens of course), and telling us not to shut down Soros funded NGOs interested in subversion when an ideology or agenda doesn't agree with his/theirs, etc. First off, Merkel should have held a referendum and asked Germans to vote if they want to take in all these migrants in the first place. OR at least asked the other EU nations if we wanted such a massive migration into the continent BEFORE telling us that we must now act in 'solidarity' and share the BURDEN that she created. Now Merkel has to deal with AfD - that's what she gets as a direct result of her folly.
If it weren't for the migrant issue the right - both far and more center right - wouldn't enjoy the record level popularity it does all over C and E Europe. It'd still be popular as there's always been a left/right divide in western civilization since the early 20th century but this migrant crisis has pushed the more open minded centrists firmly to the right. Not only that, the left's policies have become more and more radical, resemble a weird neo-socialist-communist model, and are promoting things that most traditional Christian (even if only nominally) families aren't too fond of - which is only pushing more people onto the side of the right. The average European adult in their 40's, 50's, 60's, and beyond remembers Communism - if not living in a Commie country at least knowing a lot about it due to the Cold War, remembers growing up in a Europe that was much more peaceful, much more homogenous, was more religious and traditional (even in PRL Poland), was more equal, and didn't have the issues of crime, terrorism, etc that they do now (Save for the Communist terror attacks on planes and Jews and such in the 70s). This is why the reactionary movement is growing. Many people, especially adults, speak fondly of the 'good old days' where they didn't have these kind of issues. There's a big divide - there's those who have embraced the leftist ideologies of non traditional families, mixed race societies, diminished role of religion and national identity, European culture, etc. On top of that, the European youth have grown increasingly patriotic and nationalist. They see the migrants who have come - mainly young men - and they see them as competition. They believe that the future is not going to be better with them here. They see all the crime, terror, and money being spent to help migrants while citizens and EU residents who have lived here for years, generations are being pushed aside. Soros calls for 1 million migrants to be taken in each year and $30k to be given to them over a period of 2 years. Well, when have European citizen been given $30k for free from their government (except for those on welfare) simply for moving from one place to another? The youth is embracing its national and religious identity more and more - just as the Muslim youth embrace their religion more and more and the radical ones plan attacks, they rape kuffar prostitute women and think That's why now there's such a sharp divide with few people in the center. Even the centrists are considered to be more conservative simply because of how far left the political ideologies of W. Europe especially have gone.
Also the whole left/right is relative and subjective. PO is considered a 'left' party in Poland but yet they have many views that would be considered more center/center-right in a place like the US, perhaps even 'populist,' more focused towards Christians, more traditional, etc. Unfortunately, they've chosen to ally themselves with unelected commissar Jean Claude Junker
