Re:Brazilian government studying the creation of a free encr...
by vidarh on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @11:45AM
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> Party fragmentation is a non-issue, as they'll get combined.
That's an amusing claim given that most of these parties don't even get enough votes to get seats.
> We are suffering a communist takeover - in everything but name - from some of the biggest parties around
Pray tell which of your "biggest parties around" is it that you believe are socialist in anything but name?
I find this idea of a communist takeover bizarre: You've gone from a country with armed marxist guerrilla movements fighting a right wing military dictatorship, to a country where the president is an ex-marxist guerrilla.... Yet she represents a party that is no longer any further left than moderate social democrats, and hear policies places her pretty much as a centrist by European standards (and we don't have many actual socialists any more either) - heck, some of what she's done (her inflexibility in dealing with strikes, for example) would've made Maggie Thatcher proud.
That's an amusing claim given that most of these parties don't even get enough votes to get seats.
> We are suffering a communist takeover - in everything but name - from some of the biggest parties around
Pray tell which of your "biggest parties around" is it that you believe are socialist in anything but name?
I find this idea of a communist takeover bizarre: You've gone from a country with armed marxist guerrilla movements fighting a right wing military dictatorship, to a country where the president is an ex-marxist guerrilla.... Yet she represents a party that is no longer any further left than moderate social democrats, and hear policies places her pretty much as a centrist by European standards (and we don't have many actual socialists any more either) - heck, some of what she's done (her inflexibility in dealing with strikes, for example) would've made Maggie Thatcher proud.