Greece General Discussion

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Looking at the recent polls, at the very least I'm glad the Greek people have yet to lose their sanity, based on the GD/ANEL/KKE numbers.

I, actually, quite admire the Greeks. They are dealing with the situation better than I would have expected.

I am surprised that the Golden Dawn hasn't picked up more support than they have. If this were happening in a country with self respect, like Germany or the US, they would be at least up in the 20s by this point, and would be taken seriously like the National Front in France and like Donald Trump in the US.

[Retrumplican]

Donald Trump is no Nazi. Fascist, maybe.

That's a difference of degree, not of kind. Mussolini was a "fascist," but was he really that different from Hitler?

Anyway, if Trump were in charge of Greece, one can imagine what he would have told those IMF prostitutes after getting that OXI.

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Lol @ the idea Donald Trump is taken seriously.

Just because you don't like someone, or some party, doesn't mean that they are not a significant political factor if they are winning support. If they are winning support, there is probably a reason for that.

But anyway, we should be talking about Greece, not Trump.

People in Greece seem to be like abused puppies, who finally got up the courage to run away from home, but as soon as they get a block away start to get hungry, and come crawling back to their masters. Sad.

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Maybe the fact that they are unapologetic neo-Nazis and the fact that their leadership is under trial for being a criminal organization that resorted to blackmail and murder has something to do with their limited success.

No doubt that is the explanation. However, one would suspect that the Greek people would get over that more quickly, given the severity of the economic crisis.

I guess it probably won't start happening until a few months or a year from now, when the current program is fully implemented, when Greece misses its primary surplus targets, when automatic further cuts go into effect, and when unemployment reaches about 40% or so.