Transatlantic Politics

So the left lost bigtime in the European elections this week. In France, Germany, Spain, Italy, but first and foremost in Great Britain, where Labour scored its lowest since 1918.

Hopefully, that will tone down the whole "capitalism is dead, long live socialism" discourse. More importantly, isn’t it interesting how Europe is turning to the right, while the US is turning more to the left than ever before? Maybe now they will finally meet each other halfway and we’ll have a real economic connundrum.

Here is a funny illustration of Brown’s downfall:

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