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QUESTION: How much attention are Americans paying to the collapse of socialism in Europe?
It’s been a long time since any of us have studied Europe seriously.
To be honest — we wrote Europe off completely as a failed continent about a decade ago. It became the Suzanne Sugarbaker of the global scene – formerly glorious and formidable, turned bloated, spoiled, entitled, and generally hapless from years of overindulgence and irresponsible spending. All things considered, it’s actually moved into Bernice territory — without a clue in Hell as to what it’s doing, occasionally serving as comic relief, but unable to manage its own affairs with any modicum of competence.
We would compare America to Julia Sugarbaker, but we’ll have to wait until the Palin presidency to do that. Right now, our country’s in full-on Meshach Taylor mode — and not as the reliable and trustworthy Anthony…but as fey, weak, sputtering Hollywood Montrose. Thank you Dr. Utopia and the Hope and Change Gang.
If you don’t get the Designing Women and Mannequin references, then, bless your heart, you aren’t spending enough time with us here in Boystown. Hello, Netflix, to the rescue.
We think Americans, in general, aren’t paying enough attention to the collapse of socialism in Europe. Ourselves included.
Greece is going to destroy the euro and the EU.
It’s not the iceberg hitting socialism’s Titanic…it’s a debt-fed Kraken that could prove unstoppable. It’s Oprah, on the scent of cheesey-crackers and Pepperidge Farms salami.
Nothing can stop it.
This week, we want to bone up on what’s been happening in the Mediterranean states of Europe, in particular, where we remember a general laziness and sense of entitlement driving everyone we met on the trips we took overseas to Greece, Italy, the Balkans, France, and Spain. The worst offenders were in Greece and Italy, of course, where most days we’d spot the same men sitting around, doing nothing all day, drinking coffee, playing bocci or checkers, while apparently being paid healthy salaries from their government to be loafs.
Just how big of a problem is this — and what can be done in these countries to curtail this?
What’s going to happen in the next few months and years as Europe’s socialist system collapses, now that it’s become painfully clear there is no more money floating in thin air for these countries to keep doing things the way they’ve done them for the last 30 years?
It feels like a perfect storm for colossal global financial disaster, because all of this is happening in Europe while there’s a weak, fey American president who was raised to be an acolyte of all the policies that destroyed Europe.
Dr. Utopia wants to bring socialism to life in this country, just as it’s dying overseas.
Do the American people realize this?
If not, what will it take to bring them up to speed?
For those of you who have been following Europe’s demise the last decade or so, what would you say to brief Americans on what to expect in the months and years ahead — and what should the 45th president do, once she’s sworn in, to get the world back on track?
