The common enemy that binds European anti-Establishment Parties together

Spain’s anti-austerity Syriza equivalent Podemos is now the 2nd most popular Party in Spain, today’s new poll there shows. Reuters predictably described this result as ‘fuelling uncertainty’; clearly, they’re not up to speed with the booming Greek bourse.

Support for the right-wing People’s Party (PP) and the Pasok-style Socialists plumbed new depths following a litany of corruption scandals alongside deep welfare cuts. This plus the empty banks and growing nationalist elements in Spain do not bode well for the future of the euro.

Nor does Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s extreme right Front National, getting ecstatic about the Leftist Syriza success in Greece. Syriza, the Front National and other European anti-establishment parties are partners in a political revolution that seems primarily to be about the destruction of What Is. Le Pen makes no secret of the fact that she will cooperate with the syndicalists…if that’s what it takes to keep globalist colonialism out of France. In this sense, it is hard to put a rice paper between her aims, and those of Viktor Orban in Hungary.

What’s intriguing in all this, I think, is that for perhaps the first time ever, Nationalists and Leftists in Europe have a common enemy: the Dollar. This is an enemy shared with Islam, Russia and much of South America. I wonder what percentage of the US Establishment grasps this reality.

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