Confessions of a Congressman

Re:Confessions of a Congressman by aswanson on Saturday February 07, 2015 @11:13AM (#9014345)

UKIP, Podemos and SYRIZA are all parties that rose to their position of power only after the status quo was already horribly disturbed

In the U.S., after horrible disturbances, we watch the two parties blame each other on talk radio, Fox News, and MSNBC and then vote the same parties in.

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Re:Confessions of a Congressman by philwelch on Saturday February 07, 2015 @12:43PM (#9014659)

The US hasn't had the "horrible disturbances" that Europe has had.

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Re:Confessions of a Congressman by aswanson on Saturday February 07, 2015 @04:08PM (#9015306)

I guess if you omit the civil war, ww1, ww2, the great depression, the financial crisis of 2008, racial strife, 1970s stagflation, and any number of major disruptions from the historical record, youre right.

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Re:Confessions of a Congressman by akie on Saturday February 07, 2015 @04:31PM (#9015372)

Well, neither ww1 nor ww2 was as damaging for the US as it was for Europe... but then again, we started them ;-)

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Re:Confessions of a Congressman by philwelch on Sunday February 08, 2015 @12:43AM (#9016540)

I meant in recent years, but the 2008 financial crisis was nothing in the US compared to what it was in Europe. The US Dollar was never at major threat of collapse the way the Euro was.

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