The Road to European Fascism

++Robert Kuttner,editor of the American Prospect,has a piece on Huffington Post, which is worth reading. He argues that the austerity policies of the center and center left parties in Europe have sparked the rise of proto-fascist parties. These parties are anti-immigrant,anti-Islam, anti-semitic and anti-European Union. They now comprise the 2nd or 3rd largest parties in what used to be liberal democracies.

++Today, it was reported that neo-Nazis are making inroads in the Greek elections. Then it should be no surprise that the ADL found that 69% of Greeks were anti-semitic. The Rise of the DAWN Party looked incredibly bizarre until you remember the crushing austerity programs Germany forced on the Greek state.

++Ironically, the country that seems to be immune to these extreme right parties is Germany. But Kuttner chides Germany for allowing the rise of proto-fascism without comment.

++The OpenEurope project anticipates that the extreme right will win 218 out of 751 seats in the European Parliament or 29%. They now have 21%.

++The British UKIP, whose spokespeople constantly get into trouble with racist remarks, is expected to pick up some seats,also.