What has happened to you?

The system is beyond repair. Bring down the system.

You wanted it to happen in Europe; does that mean you're glad it's already happened in the US, so that the system will crash in the US too?

Is there anywhere you don't want fascism to triumph in?

You want to spin it?

Here. Something for when you believe you'll ever be allowed to vote for a real candidate:

In Russia reaches out to Europe's far-right parties, you said "Frankly watching our Tea party and Oligarchs in action I hope he pulls it off. People need to be woken up. We have forgotten our history and are coming rapidly to a very bloody future."

Those far right parties that you want Putin to help are the same fascist parties that Prof. Krugman is warning about - the French National Front, the Northern League in Italy, UKIP in Britain. So you're hoping for fascist victory in Europe. If you're not glad that you regard the current government in the USA as fascist, then why are you wishing for Europe to suffer the way you see the USA suffering?

around you.

Ok Have a great day.

Wtf? If 21st century fascism has a birthplace, it's in Berlin. It ain't Putin forcing austerity on weaker countries, replacing elected governments with corrupt technocrats, and running Europe into the ground. That is our friend and ally, Angela Merkel. If you want the handmaiden of European fascism, there is literally no better choice.

Merkel is much better at it than Putin will ever be.

She mirrors our own 3rd Way dems. Very canny about how she pulls it off.

Why would that be any better? I still can't work out why you are supporting the European far right.

Either you can't read or you didn't read because that isn't remotely what I said and I'm pretty sure you damn well know it.

I said that Merkel is the greatest friend of the far right in Europe because they wouldn't get votes for free drugs in a crackhouse if she hadn't run the damn continent into the ground with her authoritarian austerity policies. If you think pointing out that blatantly obvious fact is "support for the far right," you're clueless.

If you're going to try to lie about what people say, don't let there be a record immediately available.

Katashi_itto is on record, in the thread I have linked to, from yesterday, saying they want Putin's financing of the European far right to succeed. So in #13, they are saying they think Merkel will be able to enable the fascists better. but Katashi_itto's hope for the fascists to gain power is still there.

I accept you're not supporting the far right. I never thought you were.

I am really sorry for being such an ass. I need to learn to read. It's funny I lecture you on it and then go do it myself. Again, sorry.

The far right has gotten a huge boost because the nominal left in Europe has completely discredited itself by jumping on the austerity train. I'm sure some here will hyperventilate and get confused, but I view this as Ludendorff and Hindenburg putting Lenin on a train to Russia. I don't know if Vlad is a big fan of the far right, but I'm pretty sure he's a big fan of keeping the EU off-balance.

If the far right rises in Europe, with or without Vlad's help, it'll be on Merkel. It's her stupid country forcing its misguided neuroses on the rest of the continent.

See http://www.riskandforecast.com/useruploads/files/pc_flash_report_russian_connection.pdf (the report referenced in the "Russia reaches out to Europe's far-right parties" article). Putin and the fascist parties that Krugman is warning about are allies.

He wouldn't get from here to the corner without Merkel doing all the groundwork to make the far right even remotely palatable to European voters, as evidenced by the elections earlier this year. Putin may well be taking advantage of it, but Merkel is the one who made it possible.

Krugman isn't ideologically pure! /sarc

Nicely put