EU and Euro troubles gives the Right an advantage that does not have to be

I will let this blogger speak for himself, but I like France and Europe in general and it will be sad indeed if the stupid, greedy Neo Liberal left continues to set the stage for the rise of the Neo Nazi through continued austerity measures. We are going down this road and Frexit + Neo Nazis eventually becomes a likely outcome.  Trump, Brexit, Farrage, La Pen...it's all related.

"As I said in the past, I’d favor Brexit under a left-wing government, even minus the Euro, the binding agreements that are part of the EU make running a real left-wing government impossible, but under the Conservatives, it’s likely be a fiasco.
However the case for France is a lot stronger, because France isn’t winning under the Euro and hasn’t been for some time. France would be better out of the Euro.  Again, it would be better that it be done by someone other than LePen, but the left has emasculated itself in these debates by refusing to be for nationalism, and thus ceding the anti-EU argument mostly to the right.  (There are some exceptions.)
Frankly, the entire south of Europe should leave the Euro (though not necessarily the EU), and so should France.  It just is not in their interest to stay, at least not if interest means “the interests of most of the population.”
It is a pity that people like LaPen and Farrage are the people filled with passionate conviction, while most of the left swings in the wind pathetically, and the only major left wing leader of conviction, Corbyn, has polls leaving him far far behind the Conservative party. (Though I consider that more an indictment of Britons than Corbyn.)"  Ian Welsh

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