Re: The Collapsing Global Left
- From: bushlyed <bushlyed@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:47:18 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 9, 11:09 am, jose el fontanero <josefsop...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Collapsing Global Left
By Bruce Walker
Conservatives can take heart from the crushing blow that taxes and
spenders received in the California election. Six propositions were
on the ballot in May. All six passed the California Legislature
easily. Republicans in the legislature generally opposed them. The
five supported by the Left were defeated by huge landslides. Four of
those five were defeated in every single county in California (the
fifth barely carried the San Francisco area.) The proposition to
limit legislative salaries while the state ran a deficit, however,
carried every county in California and won 75% of the vote across the
state.
Was this a victory for conservatives? It was in this sense: It was a
crushing defeat of the Left. Other elections in May brought more
gloomy news for the Left and enemies of the West. India held
elections in mid-May. Polls showed that the Left might well win
control of the Indian Government. Instead, the ruling Congress Party
won a sweeping victory, which is very good news for the United
States. At the same time, the Kuwaiti people were casting votes for
their parliament. The big story was that four women were elected to
the parliament, two of whom were educated in America – and they were
elected by an overwhelmingly male electorate. The lesser story was
that non-religious political parties – political parties that look
more like what a party in Holland or Canada would look like – finally
gained a majority in the Kuwaiti Parliament. Western pluralism is
taking root in the most Islamic parts of the world. It is taking
place because of America.
June brought even more terrible news for the Left. England held
regional elections. The Labour Party government of Prime Minister
Gordon Brown is bland, staid Leftism. An example of its almost casual
Leftism was the decision of the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to include
conservative talk show host Michael Savage on a list of the twenty-two
undesirables too hateful to enter the United Kingdom. The minister
responsible for that Orwellian action is out of the cabinet now
(though more because her husband charged his personal porn purchases
as a government expense.)
The Labour Party, in many ways, is the oldest Leftist party in the
world. It is certainly one of the most significant. Under the sunny
smile and glib words of Tony Blair, Labour did pretty well. But not
now. The government of Great Britain is in free fall. The Labour
Party has the confidence of practically no one.
Polls for the last several years have shown that if the general
election were held today, the Labour Party would be swept from power.
It is even conceivable that Labour, after the next election, will be
only the third largest party in the House of Commons. The mere fact
that Brown has not called a general election, when practically no one
believes in his ability to govern, is a disgrace to the parliamentary
system.
Another disgrace – a big one – popped up a few weeks before the June
5, 2009 elections. Members of Parliament were caught in the same sort
of personal abuse of the government parliamentary administration that
the United States House of Representatives was caught doing twenty
years ago in the House Banking Scandal. Labour Party members sinned,
but so did Conservative MPs and others. How would the British people
react?
The results were breathtaking in their scope. The Conservative Party,
which already controlled most of the local councils in England, gained
control of seven more local councils. Tories won 30 of the 34
councils up for election. The number of Conservative Party local
council members in England, which already was greater than Labour,
increased dramatically. Most democracies and Britain is no
exception. Although Labour was the big loser, the next largest party,
the Liberal Party, lost seats too. The voters of England, who in 2008
local elections had already given Conservatives a big victory, gave
Conservatives in 2009 an even more sweeping victory.
A couple of days later, Britons went to the polls again, this time to
elect members to the European Parliament. The Conservative Party won
more seats than any other party, and other conservative parties like
the Independence Party and British National Party scored dramatic
gains. The results were a clear restatement by the British people
that the Right, not the Left, should be governing them.
What happened in Britain happened across Europe. Angela Merkel in the
September 2009 election appeared certain to be able to form a Right-
Center government with its Free Democrat Party, and end the Right-Left
coalition government she heads now. Every poll for several years has
shown that result. State elections in Hesse earlier this year showed
that. Now, the European Parliament elections show that too. The
Social Democrats, the primary party of the German Left, received an
historically low 21% of the vote.
Across the width and breadth of Europe, the more conservative
political parties were drubbing the parties of the Left. It means in
a few months, every major nation in Europe will have a political party
of the Right in power. Europe is not having a Reagan Revolution or
even a Thatcher Revolution. But Europe is giving the Left an F- on
its electoral report card,
Does the smashing victory of the Conservative Party, and these other
victories mean that the democratic world is suddenly embracing our
conservative principles? No: not at all. But does it mean that
voters, almost everywhere they can vote, are rejecting the message of
the Left? Yes. Real conservatism is not winning elections yet; but
the Left is clearly losing.
American voters are bombarded by their media with the message that
conservatism is dead, because a Democrat got 52 perecent of the
presidential vote. Meanwhile, the collapse of the Left proceeds apace
elsewhere in the world.
The collapsing global left handily beat the collasped global right
handily
.
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