Peak Democracy continued

Communists elected in Greece after the insipid center right coalition waged a war on the Golden dawn leaving the only party on the right with any answers on the sidelines. They turned them into prisoners of conscience jailing their leadership turning ideology into thought crime. At Vdare an article by Dimitrios Papageorgiou sums up the whole sordid affair:

The governing New Democracy party spent a lot of its political capital in trying to parry the challenge from Golden Dawn, with which it was in competition for the Greek patriot vote. It failed, partly because (like the GOP in the US) it was clearly not really serious about stopping immigration. So, with Golden Dawn polling up to 10%, the government resorted in 2013 to the extraordinary measure of branding Golden Dawn a “criminal organization” and imprisoning its leadership.

 The government directly contacted members of the supposedly-impartial judiciary to ask for the imprisonment of Golden Dawn members. (One New Democracy official was subsequently forced to resign after being videotaped admitting this conspiracy—Greek far-right Golden Dawn topples PM aide amid police crackdown, RT.com, April 3, 2014). Incredible in a supposed democracy, Golden Dawn leaders have had to fight this election from prison.The net effect of this: many disgruntled voters who would not vote for New Democracy because of its austerity policies did not vote for Golden Dawn but for SYRIZA. In fact, the movement of voters from New Democracy to SYRIZA is the biggest we have seen in recent political history—an estimated 12% of the conservative party’s voters moved to SYRIZA. From moderate conservatism to radical Leftism is a route that is hard to explain.

 This is what the left has planned for their political opponents. They will begin with social disapprobation they will end up using the repressive power of the state to imprison their ideological foes. It will arrive here soon enough.