Perhaps the sane half of America is more sensitive to the threat of Nazism than Austria, since Austria's infatuation with Nazism was relatively brief and occurred more than a half century ago, whereas America's infatuation with Nazism is longstanding, current and evidently intensifying by the month.
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Isn't possible to write one article about Austria without mentioning the word Nazi?? Austria today is a wealthy, social, environmentally aware society with a highly developed sense of human rights and proud of its neutrality and role in the world. It has a robust democratic system and any member of the Conservative Party is still to the 'left' of any Republican!
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This is truly sad news. The extreme right are getting their foot in the door in many places around the world. Have we learned nothing from the Nazi's? I'm very liberal but I think the fragile world can't take care of these immigrants. The middle East needs to solve their own problems. The industrial world should support a govt. change for the countries that send immigrants around the world. It's too much! Support democracy in the Middle East and stop taking on their people when many in these counties are so completely stuck in the 13th century.
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At the relatively young age of 44, Austrian-born Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany on a populist platform after his party won the most seats in the Bundestag.
It seems that Austrians will never learn.
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This is the same condescending elitist attitude that caused the Democrats to lose the last Presidential election. Brexit, conservative elections in Eastern Europe, and a notable swing to the right is a reflection of those voters who have felt that control has been stripped from them. The EU bureaucracy added layers of government and prevents nations from controlling their own borders. This is about retention of a social identity and about control of the country. Much like the populists in this country, they act as if foreigners have greater standing in the decision of who we allow to enter our country, rather than the citizens who reside here. Failure to recognize the legitimate rights of the governed to select their own government will continue to see the rise of nationalism.
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Hitler was not elected Chancellor. He was appointed to the office by Hindenberg after other parties proved to be unable to form a coalition after the second 1932 elections.
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Over the last few years, I have seen Sebastian Kurz on several political talk shows and was impressed each time. He comes over as intelligent, is well behaved and rhetorically strong. I believe he will be able to correct to a certain extent the "all are welcome" message that Germany sent to the muslim world and that has forced several countries in Europe to cope with the result.
"Basti" as they call him in Austria has sold himself very well, hopes on him are so high that it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to not disappoint. I wish him all the best.
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Most of the comments I have read focus on the dilemma of immigration, but I believe Mr. Kurz owes his win to a much larger psychological phenomenon. Josef Redl, the economics reporter quoted from the left-leaning Austrian weekly Falter, summed it up: “The party saw him as a Messiah, a young man who was going to come and be their savior.”
An overwhelming desire to be RESCUED from fears of financial insecurity, and relieved of responsibility for wrangling with uncertainty to find solutions, drove voters in the U.S. to support big daddy Dick Cheney and fake cowboy Dubya Bush in 2000. That odd couple promised to restore life in the U.S. to a "Father Knows Best" 1950s-style comfy-coziness. But investing with con artists leaves you in really rough shape, as we were in 2008.
Now, Trump’s voters (who weren’t in fact computers https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/us/politics/russia-election-hacking.h... bought the same snake oil that Cheney & Bush pitched: I'll take care of you, "Believe me."
Apparently, Europeans are suffering from the same anxiety as Americans, as the "Tech Revolution" roils economies as dramatically as did the 19th C "Industrial Revolution."
But a politician manipulating from behind a “Father Figure!” mask will never provide solutions. We must stop electing saviors, and learn to elect mature administrators. The spectacle of autocrat pappa Trump decimating the U.S.--its land, its people, and its reputation—is an ugly object lesson for all the World to see.
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Just to be clear. Sebastian Kurz might have entered Austrian politics at an early age, but he cut his teeth on the migration crisis spearheaded by Germany's Angela Merkel decision two years ago, to welcom hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants to Europe with the promise of 'Wir Schaffen Das!' --or, We Can Do It.
Fortunately for Austria, they noticed before too long just how chaotic it was becoming at the open the borders, where anyone and everone could just slip through. And while their decision to stem the flow into Austria and neighbouring Germany didn't appear popular at first, it wasn't before long that the other countries recognized the need for more regulation.
Herr Kurz can take credit for being one of those first voices to speak out.
And his election victory is not so much a populist movement, as it is a vindication for those who are concerned about maintaining their popular traditions and culture.
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Trumpism Austrian style. Kurz's politics along with Trump's was and is spreading in Europe. Kurz's is right on I'm migration.
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Sebastian Kurz is not in any way remotely similar to DT.
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France, Canada, and Austria. I wouldn't say young is always good, but it looks to me, on TV, that the Trump team (except his family) and his supporters in the rust belt are all old and panting.
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The line, "Unlike Silicon Valley, we are too reliant on the service sector," is one for the history books. What is Silicon Valley if not a vast service sector that makes trillions with barely any capital?
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Austria's Nazi history was sanitized because the U.S. and the Soviet Union, agreed to a "neutral" Austria after World War II. It never was made to confront its past the way Germany had to.
Years ago it was clear Europe's inability to deal with uncontrolled immigration, terrorism, and the failure to link the Euro to financial policy was the greatest threat to liberal, progressive values. Europe had the chance to realize its project had gone astray, when it needed the U.S. to solve the wars in the Balkans. Sadly, nothing changed, so that when Russia annexed the Crimea, and Greece fell into an economic black hole, the European emperor was shown to have no clothes.
Meanwhile, two generations had grown up with no experience of World War II, the cataclysmic event that lead to a broad recognition by Europeans of the critical need for transnational institutions.
Much as Bush believed the "obvious" benefits of freedom and liberal values would cause Iraqis to welcome our invasion, Western European leaders believed a quick expansion of the European Community to include former Soviet satellites would be easy. Thus, transnational European institutions built over decades were suddenly opened to countries with no tradition of liberal values. While Brussels Eurocrats could maintain economic progress, it worked, but when things went bad, liberal and internationalist values, especially in the East, began to crumble in favor of the familiar ethnic, religious, and nationalistic values.
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The result of refugees, from Iraq, Afghanistan,Syria , Libya ..
In 2016, Austria a country with 1/37th of the population of the US, and an area of 1/117 of the US area admitted 93, 182 refuges
The equivalent , of the US, per population, admitting,in a single year 3.4 million refugees, or per area , 10.902 million - almost all of all not speaking its language.
The US admitted, total 272 898, even though it was US foreign policy that generated the refugees,
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We see the attempts by Russia to indulgence and empower the right in the US. We wonder about the sudden rise and quite demise of Nigel Farrage and the Brexit vote. Yet we read nothing about their role is the sudden rise and influence of right wing European Parties. Russian money? Russian Propaganda and Fake News? Russian organization skill.
We have definitely seen fake sensationalist stories in the European Media, American alt right sites were quick to report on them but to date I read nothing about Russian influence in European politics.
Melissa Eddy's fair reporting is catching alot of interest from VoiceofAmerica, USA which clearly he / she is not. Three (3) identities is a bit much, VoiceofAmerica, USA:
"Europe should cease ALL cooperation with the US.." - If this is an American, he / she is related to Shrek.
"we have plenty of room for them here" plus "bloodthirstiness" of Republicans - Someone posing as the American alt Left which exists only as a construct of the alt Right (in order to deflect scrutiny upon themselves).
"The European press calls him 'A power hungry neoliberal.' That tells me all I need to know." - Someone calling center-right Kurz a neoliberal sounds like an unhappy camper from the Austrian Freedom Party (far-right), or an Austrian Bannonite rabble-rouser.
Clearly, The 3 Faces of VoiceofAmerica needs some psychoanalysis or put on a watch list.
Europe should cease ALL cooperation with the US until the latter agrees to accept its fair share of the refugee burden. A large part of this catastrophe was created by the US.
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VoiceofAmerica,
Perhaps it is too late for the World is watching 'The Giant in Retreat' and We are becoming an Insular Superpower.
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The solution is clear. Europe can not accommodate all the refugees pouring out of the countries the United States destroyed. It is the responsibility of the US to resettle the victims of US foreign policy and unlike Europe, we have plenty of room for them here. What must be overcome is the cruelty, bloodthirstiness and xenophobia of the Republicans, which threaten our country and way of life far more than any immigrants.
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If that is the case, then maybe Russia should start taking in refugees from Syria and Afghanistan as well.
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"Populist": derogatory term for "democratic"; used when democratic outcomes do not agree with the user's ideology.
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Populist is a term used to describe any politician who woos crowds of rural votes by telling them what they want to hear and appealing to their basest instincts.
The European press calls him "A power hungry neoliberal."
That tells me all I need to know.
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What press? Why are you, without being specific, purposely providing false information? What's your game?
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I wonder, why that fourth-rated actror, former gov of Cali, didn't move back there and run? Maybe he got used to the good life in Beverly Hills.
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Still more qualified than our President.
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I love the New York Times's choice of wording. When the left wins, it's protrayed in positive terms. When the right wins, it's a "lurch." You people have become a laughable caricature of yourselves, a true self-parody. And I suppse you wonder why more and more people read your "news," and conclude the opposite.
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I didn't see the word "lurch" in there. Did I miss it? I read about a "swing," and also "shift." Am I the one who is not reading this carefully enough?
Well either way, reading the New York Times improves our spelling and this applies not only for Ewes but for All People.
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A young leader with old NAZI mentality.
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People are worried about Austria when we have a illiterate maniacal liar in the White House
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People are capable of worrying about more than one thing at a time.
The blame for this "for each action there is an equal and opposite reaction" falls with the arrogance and extreme bureaucracy doled out by Brussels and the poorly managed unsustainable approach to the refugee status. Perhaps the Austrians are rediscovering the croissant, the pastry invented in Vienna to celebrate the defeat of Ottoman invaders.
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Much as George Bush believed the "obvious" benefits of freedom and liberal values would cause Iraqis to welcome our invasion with open arms, Western European leaders (and many of their peoples) believed a quick expansion of the European Community to include former Soviet "republics" and satellites would be a simple, harmonious process. Thus, transnational European institutions built over a half century were suddenly opened to a bunch of countries with essentially no tradition of liberal values. As long as the Brussels Eurocrats could maintain real or even illusory economic progress, things worked, but as soon as push-came-to-shove, liberal and internationalist values, especially in the East, began to crumble in favor of the familiar, insular, parochial values, primarily ethnic and religious, but also more broadly nationalistic.
As to Austria: its Nazi history was sanitized because the Allies, primarily the U.S. and the Soviet Union, agreed to a "neutral" Austria after World War II. It never was made to confront its past the way Germany had to.
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I agree with your first paragraph, but it's not relevant to Austria.
I disagree with the implied thesis of your second paragraph. The immigration issue has to be better respected and not dismissed as racism by deplorables.
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Germany being the real prime factor during that time did not have much to do with that whitewashing did it? Of course, there were willing Austrian nazis too, but, given the absence of one key Austrian in particular, without Hitler in Germany it seems unlikely the same social and political phenomena would have arisen from within Austria itself, let alone bloomed into the monster that became the third reich.
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More repudiation of the globalist lefties and their insane open border and wealth redistribution policies. You know, by people who want to preserve their communities...., basically racists and bigots right lefties?
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From the crowd that refuses to accept that the US has stringent border policies, that President Obama deported many more people than did his predecessors, that redistributes wealthfrom the middle class to the billionaire class, that uses community preservation as a dog whistle for all things homogenous.
How unfortunate that some people are so gullible to right wing peopaganda.
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Will all those who throw out terms like right extremist, fascist or Nazi, including the NYT editorial board, please come to their senses? This was a democratic election by a country that, like many in Europe, is seeking to put some pragmatic restrictions on immigration when currently there are practically none.
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True. It was a democratic election. However, Austria, unlike Germany, has not come to terms with their role in Nazi history. Until the fall of USSR Austrians argued that that they were too fragile to face their past. And they still feel that they are too fragile. Allies did not conduct a forceful re-education policy in Austria as they did in Germany immediately after the war. For that reason we (non-Austrians) worry about the rise of Alt-Right in Austria in addition to developments in Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria who just like Austria have troublesome past and
problems with Rule of Law and Democracy.
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Do you think one day America will come to terms with its grotesque history of racism, massacre, torture, genocide, lies, atrocity and stupidity?
Just asking.
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Not sure what Germany has done to demonstrate that it has come to terms with their role in Nazi history but Austria has not. A country cannot move forward if every discussion leads to its past. The US has committed and continues to commit atrocities all over the globe, and has repeatedly violated international norms and the rule of law, yet we continue to have a holier than thou attitude about Austria and, in fact, countries that recently have a far more pristine record than we do. We HAVE to move on and, while we recognize that the Holocaust was a TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE event, we in NYC would be well-served if we could have a conversation about the world that doesn't involve Israel or the Holocaust. Not every move to the right should be equated with Fascism or Nazis.
I’m tired of this paper’s apologia and blind defense of Islam.
This article: “fears over the arrival of thousands of immigrants from the Middle East from 2015 to 2016. From the strain they placed on the country’s welfare system to the threat that Islamic extremists” and yet it fails to mention the concern re what impact this multitude of mainly male immigration will have on the rights and freedom of women, homosexuals, Jews...
This is a more serious threat than terrorism; and perhaps considerably more dangerous.
You constantly act as if the vast majority of Muslims support freedom and equality for women. Why does the NYT never mention that 52% of British Muslims support outlawing homosexuality?
This article, conveniently ignores small facts like the mass sexual attacks of Cologne, where over two thousand ‘refugees’ (mostly North African economic migrants) organized themselves to openly sexually molest and rape over 600 women (on a single night).
The NYT never really provided decent coverage of the event, or on the systemic (and generally legal) violence against women in Muslim cultures in general, indicates its high level of comfort with a certain level of misogyny. It will not dare speak against its preferred ideologies even when entire countries treat 50% of their population as sub-human due to their gender.
We – our bodies, our intellect, our freedom – are simply collateral damage to your ideology of tolerance for a culture of intolerance.
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Kurz insisted that 50% of his party's delegates to Parliament are women.
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How about the blind defense of America, a country founded on the extermination of the indigenous population, built with forced labor dragged from Africa; the only country ever to use atomic weapons against civilian population centers in two gratuitous atrocities before going on an extermination jamboree in SE Asia in which 3-5 million people—overwhelmingly civilian—were slaughtered. More recently, we demolished Iraq, spread incalculable human suffering and created ISIS in the process, at a cost of trillions of dollars (and counting).
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Oh, please.
The rise of white nationalism in the US is due in large part to a shared belief among conservatives that women in the workforce are stealing jobs from men, that women and girls should be legally punished for obtaining abortions, that women shouldn’t be paid as much as much as men for the same work, that women shouldn’t have the right to vote.
Meanwhile, a large majority of conservatives don’t think gays, lesbians, and transgendered people deserve the same Constitutional rights as their heterosexual peers, and within that, a smaller but sizeable group believe homosexuality is a crime.
The ONLY thing that keeps from acting on what they believe is the Constitution.
We even refuse to acknowledge that the nation was built largely off the backs of people from Africa, China, Ireland, Germany.
And we attacked Iraq, killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, including children and babies, and sacrificed thousands of our own military, rendering their children fatherless or motherless.
And what about the Crusades? It happened in the past so it’t to be excused?
Yes. A mirror. Quick.
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Due to Cold War dynamics, Austria never had to confront its Nazi past the way Germany did.
Four years ago, through comments and unpublished letters, I (and others I'm sure) wrote that the inability of Europe to deal with its problems was likely the greatest threat to liberal, progressive values. Uncontrolled immigration, terrorism, and the failure to firmly link the Euro to financial policy were all showing the self-delusion and collective impotence of European leadership.
Europe had a chance to realize its project had gone far astray, when it needed the U.S. to solve the horrific wars in the Balkans. Unfortunately, nothing much changed. Then, when Russia annexed the Crimea and Greece fell into an economic black hole, the European emperor was shown to have no clothes.
As globalization ensued, national leaders' perspective became international, not in of itself bad but losing touch with their own people in the process.
Meanwhile, two generations had grown up with no personal experience of World War II, the truly cataclysmic event that lead to a broad recognition by Europeans of the overriding need for transnational institutions, beginning with the Coal and Steel Community.
So now we come to the ascent of nationalistic, culturally nativist parties throughout Europe. It is not their rise that worries me nearly as much as the fact that liberal leaders still don't get it, still don't understand their own people, still don't know how to respond with an attractive alternative.
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Everyone seems to be reading the same book that claims Austria never had to face its Nazi past like Germany did. Do Americans really believe Austria and Vienna enjoyed being controlled by England, France, The US and Russia for over a decade after the war ended? What exactly meant by coming to terms with your role? After WWI, Austria lost most of its territory and it was the end of the empire. After WWII, Austria was forced to be a neutral nation in perpetuity, something Germany was not required to do. It cannot even join NATO, though it is in close proximity to Crimea and Russia. What exactly must happen for Americans to believe Austrians have come to terms with their past -- should something be taken from them? Should Austria continue to pay reparations for every piece of art in the country, and be the only country in the world to pay reparations for their looted treasure troves and museum (since few other countries have paid a dime for all the looting of the resources and works of the countries they imperialized or sacked)? Not sure what the expectation is.
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It's worth noting that fake news via Facebook was a tactic of the SPO against Kurz - called the "dirt bucket scandal". They didn't succeed and are now unlikely to be able to form a coalition due to the bad blood it created with Kurz and his allies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/15/sebastian-kurz-on-track-to...
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Austria simply circles back to politically what it has always been: Catholic conservative.
Vienna itself is a time capsule still celebrating the House of Hapsburg.
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"ushering in a leftward shift in Austrian politics that has remained virtually unbroken since."
I think that's for gratification of the leftie readers of this website. It certainly doesn't cover Kurt Waldheim.
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One of Mr. Kurz's ideas is to form a coalition with Hungary, Poland, and other European nations. Perhaps his rise to power will coincide with the demise of NATO and even the EU. The influence the US once had in the world is diminishing as new coalitions are forming.
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And The New Austro-Hungarian Empire will go over real well.
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Why is any politician who proposes restrictions on immigration labeled "right-wing" or "far right"? Has any European politician who is given this label proposed anything that is stricter than current immigration laws in the United States?
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Why? Because they are.
Europe shares a continuous land mass with Asia and Asia with Africa.
North America does not. That is why there are STILL restrictions on transporting soil and produce.
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Rebes,
Whites should have control over their borders as long as humanity too have control over our borders and able to protect ourselves from whites. How could whites asked for restriction on immigration while bombing Muslim lands?
Kurz’s rise can be easily explained.
“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
The uncontrolled, mass immigration of 2015 may have been a far-left dream come true, but it had the impact of dramatically strengthening the far-right. If Austria and other European countries had taken a more moderate approach of securing the external border and strongly discouraging immigrants from making the journey, Austria's election results would be different.
Moreover, it is actually good that the OVP/Kurz (center right) took much of the immigration platform from the FOP (farther right). If they hadn’t, there is a very good chance that the FOP would itself have won the election.
As it is, however, a boulder was thrown into a lake and the ripples are now reaching shore. This one isn’t the first and it won’t be the last. The next one is coming ashore in the Czech Republic this weekend.
Perhaps we should be careful about casting boulders in the future.
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FPO, not FOP
To read all the comments here makes me sad. It‘s clear that there have ocurred things (missing a suitable word) that no one has liked. But after 70 years it‘s about time to let the past be the past. I‘m glad that we voted like this and did not let the real right-wing party win. Furthermore, in contrast to the U.S., which have ever been and will ever be a country of immigration, Austria couldn‘t take that much people and it was correct to limit the number to make it controlable for the authorities. Don‘t jugde before anything has happened. I‘m happy to have a young (future) leader full of ideas to make changes and not an unpredictable grandpa with the power to destroy the whole world.
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Do you smell the Steve Bannon, Putin stench? It is overpowering. They and their Robber Baron brethren are busy around the world.
Thankfully many average people around the world see it happening and WE can stop it if we act right now. Media of the world - please help get the word out forcefully to prevent world destruction again.
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It's a shame the populist revolution in the US wasn't spearheaded by someone with the wisdom and statesmanship of Mr. Kurz.
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The last time a young, right-leaning Austrian took the reins of power as a self-appointed leader of the people it didn't work out so well. Does Kurz like to paint?
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Sad how you Americans see the world. There has been an evolution in the past 70 years, believe it or not, not everyone is walking around in brown uniforms with lifted right arm nowadays...
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Obviously, you haven't visited America recently.
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Really? I don't see any brown-shirts walking around. I saw a couple of clowns waving tiki torches at some rally, who were vastly outnumbered by thousands more people. Please, show me the massive, neo-Nazi rallies going on in America. Show me the neo-Nazi candidates who are winning seats in Congress. I'll wait.
Europe has reestablished its heritage from a recent past.
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why does the media keep calling fascists and authoritarian movements "populist?" Bernie Sander was "populist." By conflating politicians like Trump and his global fan club "populist" you do an injustice to language and an understanding of what these fascist politicians are. They are too "far-right" to even be called "conservative" anymore, as we are seeing here in the US GOP divisions. The reading public, increasingly deprived of a good education, simply sees these fascists as popular and really "for the people" when you label them as "populist." If you could be more precise with language and actually call a spade a spade, people would know the difference between politicians like Bernie Sanders and this young Nazi rising to power in Austria.
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It is historically correct to label a movement populist even though we strongly disagree with their policies. The difference between populist governments and other forms of political movements can more easily be seen in in the recent Spanish vote on separation. One aspect of populist policies is their appeal to strong Nationalistic citizens. Thus the term populist can include a wide group of beliefs, including both Senator Sanders and President Trump. Teddy Roosevelt ran on a populist platform as did dictators such as Mussolini.
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Prior to opining about populism, it's wise to get the definition straight. Kurz, Petrie, Trump have the interests of the citizens in mind. They do not want to help illegals. That is good. We need to close borders, and help citizens.
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To call Kurz a Nazi is just another extremely stupid statement. Kurz is not "far right", in fact compared to the average Republican he might rather be called a leftist liberal...
P:S. I did not vote for Kurz ...
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Generally, Europeans tend to have a strong sense of national identity, and will go to great lengths to make sure that it survives. Many in the US don't understand that -- as our sense of national identity is, unfortunately, getting weaker and weaker due to excessive (too much, too fast) immigration.
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Are you talking about the US national identity defined by Trump and Weinstein?
The repercussions of Angela Merkel's decision to fling open Germany's borders to hundreds of thousands of migrants (regardless of their actual status as refugees or not and with only cursory security or background checks) continues.
Ironically--if predictably--the result of Merkel's "open door" free-for-all is a European populace that increasingly wants to close its doors and is far less inclined to welcome to outsiders than perhaps at any time in living memory.
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Face it -- the hostility to immigrants predates Angela Merkel. Let's not blame one of the few leaders who had the honesty, humanity and courage to act in concert with the values Europe claims to uphold rather than reaching for easy populist pickings. Populists, neo-fascists and racists are to blame for their base appeals, not Angela Merkel.
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Many Europeans are concerned that a sudden influx of hundreds of thousands of primarily Muslim migrants (disproportionately made of poorly skilled and poorly educated young men) is disruptive to social cohesion and to Europe's hard-fought values of secularism and tolerance, and that some of those young men may be, or become, radicalized and dangerous. These concerns are not based on fantasies, as terrorist attacks in Berlin, London, Paris, Marseille, Manchester, Nice and Barcelona, among others, demonstrate (carried out by both first and second generation migrants). If you've seen scores of pedestrians mowed down by a 19-year old Moroccan migrant in a van, your perspective on the wisdom of unfettered migration just might be negatively impacted.
But of course it's so much easier to to avoid inconvenient realities and dismiss them all as "racist, neo-fascist" and so on (though, in so doing you hollow out the meaning of those words). That is what much of Europe's elite continues to do, even as the number of Europeans prepared to vote for anyone who actually listens to their concerns continues to grow.
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You completely -- and perhaps deliberately -- misread my point. Sure, there are genuine concerns, and my comment does not at any point dismiss or label everyone sharing those concerns. But populist politicians who exploit the situation are responsible for stoking fear and division for their own political advantage. Angela Merkel is not to blame for their opportunism; they are responsible for their own actions. By asserting falsely that the critique of populist opportunism labels all who have concerns about immigrants and refugees as racists and neo-fascists, you exonerate those opportunists who fan the flames of hatred.
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I just wish to point out the fact that the only country "to the South-West" of Austria is Italy, that would never be convinced by Austria to close its borders. You more probably refer to Slovenia and, most of all, Hungary, which didn't need a word from Herr Kurz anyway...
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Any time you hear someone talking about what "The People" want and "The People's Party" you know what comes next. It sounds a lot like another Austrian politician I remember.
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Seems to be the only thing you know about Austria, right? May be possible that some things have changed in the past 70 years...
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even objected to deporting a illegal Afghan migrant (supposed a teen-ager) who raped a 72-year-old grandmother.
You got proof of that one????
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Farqel,
But humanity allowed Europeans to come to their land. America included.
Imagine an America if Native Americans possessed their own Sebastian Kurzs.