Democracy is finished in Europe | Yanis Varoufakis

[UndercoverElephant]

Worth 17 minutes of my time to watch. Completely negative. No glimmer of hope here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=565mNf8_YrU

[northernmonkey]

I stopped listening when he spoke about Greece and drew parallels with the Greek people's growing opposition to illegal immigration with his more general observations of the rise of the far right in Europe as a whole.

The reason the far right is on the rise is due to the authoritarianism of the liberal established political class and the abject failure of the left to provide a way forwards that addresses people's legitimate grievances about mass immigration as well as a host of other socioeconomic issues. Indeed, there is no "left" anywhere to be seen in the mainstream body politic since they threw in their lot with the liberals.

We reap what we sow.

As for the Greeks, they have not turned to the "far right". They are simply trying to survive as a nation. 1 in 10 people in Greece now are immigrants who came in on the boats.

[BritDownUnder]

Well he talks a good talk for the (Chinese?) journalist who is interviewing and tells you Europe is a horrible place to live and everyone is racist etc etc. I hear crime rates are getting higher in Greece and it is mainly due to immigrants. It was terribly nice for 1 million Greeks to leave Greece to make space for the 1 million immigrants who have arrived.

The piece de resistance was him saying that Greece is not a corrupt country, or a very corrupt country, and that wasn't to blame for the crisis. While the Euro (apparently means 'pi$$' in Greek) was the main reason, tax evasion on an industrial scale cleaned out the governments finances and then they had to go to the ECB once their economy had been picked clean.

A classic socialist. Everyone who does not agree with me is a racist and when I was in government none of this was my fault or doing.