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Ask Palestinians what they have to say about how wonderful EU Social Democracy is. Ask Libyans the same, or Iraqi. Ask Algerians, murdered by the million in the 1960s, Burkinabe or Mali having their central bank in Paris what they think of France's social democracy. Ask Cubans or Syrians what they think of Obama's social democracy. Ask the immigrant field-labourers picking up the berries planted in Almería (Spain) that you eat in Sweden what they think of Social Democracy.
Ask the Greeks who elected the leftist party Syriza to government, only to have their state power removed by the Troika under threat of the European Central Bank to drop servicing of Greek state bonds. Ask the French who democratically elected a leftist coalition last elections and their president of the republic rejects to nominate a candidate for them. Or ask them what they think of Social "Democracy" when Macron declares emergency measures to skip the Parliament vote and implement an antidemocratic raise of the retirement age.
Ask the Spaniards what they think of Social Democracy when their police and ministry of interior manufactured false evidence of funding from Venezuela and Iran to the largest leftist party in the country at the time (Podemos) together with a media campaign to leak this "evidence", when 40% of the media are owned by fucking Silvio Berlusconi (burn in hell, fascist fuck).
Such wonderful "democracies" all of them, raising military expenditure collectively to 5% of GDP without any democratic input from society, all of them enacting exclusively austerity policy for the past 20 years of my life.
People my age (30ish) in Europe have NEVER seen anything other than austerity policy and the ever growing degradation of public services, growth in inequality, stagnation in economics, lowering of purchase power, raising of rent prices and lowering of home ownership rates, destruction of labor rights, and now the fucking raise of the far right all over the continent. In 4 years time, virtually all of the EU will be controlled by far right parties, who will be using the 5% GDP expenditures in weapons of "social democrats" for god knows what.
Tell me again how fucking wonderful this system is
I mean as a matter of fact it is better than the American system, but the rise of far right parties like the AFD in germany is terrifying. I mean what system do you recommend and could it be implemented in Europe?
Well, you may guess from my username, I'm a socialist. Not as in socialdemocrat, as in socialism socialism: expropriate the capitslist companies, provide guaranteed jobs for everyone, provide guaranteed housing for everyone at low prices, free education to the highest level...
Note how I said ideology, not party, I an not a super fan of how the current social democratic party has been handling things