„Die Mitte hält“, erklärt von der Leyen angesichts des Rechtsrucks in Europa

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2. The center better show up and vote against the far right or it ain’t gonna matter when Europe regresses to fascism.

3. Democratic backsliding, so hot right now

4. No its not – its fraying and buckling

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6. *Turning and turning in the widening gyre*

   *The falcon cannot hear the falconer;*

   *Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;*

   *Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,*

   *The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere*

   *The ceremony of innocence is drowned;*

   *The best lack all conviction, while the worst*

   *Are full of passionate intensity.*

   William Butler Yeats “the second coming” 1919

7. People alive today don’t know how fucking good they got it in a lot of these countries and want to blame all their problems on Government policy.

   Well if you go full fascist, you’ll learn you can have a shitload of problems you never even imagined.

8. The center isn’t holding lmao. We have a surge in nazi rhetoric, in literal nazis being politically prominent and generally being accustomed to genocidal rhetoric, what do you mean you are holding?
   Liberals have been and are just fascists little helpers.

9. Not if you get another term, it won’t.

10. that is a good thing because I am informed that

    *If the centre cannot hold,
    mere anarchy is loosed upon the world*

11. It’s still holding but it’s about to give in. Stop dicking around

12. She better notice the trends for which HER rule lead. If not, next parliament will make this one look like gay parade.

13. “Business as usual fellas. Keep the kickbacks rollin’ “

14. Everyone is blaming everything under the sun for what’s happening instead of the painfully obvious. We are in the very early stages of run away climate change, and food and water are becoming scarcer. The false blame and knee jerk reactions are flinging us headfirst into authoritarianism and fascism, thinking it may be our last hope. It’s not.

    If we could acknowledge what was actually happening, we would band together as a world and do what needs to be done to survive what’s coming. Instead people are tripling down on us vs them. It’s fucked, because all it’s going to do is accelerate us to our demise, all while creating a nice hellscape to go with it.

15. Stop holding and start ***carrying*** you dumb clowns before it’s too late and we get really punished with a large far-right, anti-EU and russia/china compromised circus in charge.

    Complacency and riding the status quo on our backs and cost won’t get you pity votes anywhere anymore after most center-adjacent parties have failed their voters again and again in too many regards.

16. Sure, the center is holding. The left is all but destroyed. The right is coming. Dark times ahead.

17. The center held, for one last time probably. The next election, the center would need to get either the far left OR far right Into government, and that won’t sit well in the election after that.

    Instead of focusing on grouping up as an alliance to get more seats, the social democrats and moderate centrist with the center right into grand coalition in each slcountry they separated, and that’s what left Hard right wingers “winning” with 30%of the vote. Cause that’s good PR for the hard right, a win is a win for them, even if 70% voted for others.

    The social democrats need to compromise on border issues and immigration, and center right needs to compromise on social welfare and social rights. Otherwise, they will get a whole lot worse deal next time when the far right starts getting into governments in more countries. Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, Netherlands – fell down. If France falls next month, it’s game over for the EU, cause Germany probably is next, and with it, dissolution of EU as we know it.

    Poland shook out the right wingers, but somehow, the others said no we want them in charge. You win one and lose 3. That’s a losing battle.

    The only way I see EU surviving is probably if UK holds another referendum and joins back in, and they set the foot down and pull Europe out, once again from the possible fascist uprisings. The economies of both UK and EU would jump again due to confidence in their markets and economies if they both join again. Give UK some concessions so they can Instill new confidence in a union. And crush the far right with grand coalitions before elections, ban their hate speech, drown out their populism that helps no one but the rich and well connected.