My claim is that the economic inequality experienced in peripheral Eurozone countries will contribute to the rise of fascism in those countries.
The context being an economic/political liberalism that provides no credible alternative to arrest the reduction in quality of life for poor/former working class people.
The Euro: Peripheral countries get to borrow at the rate Germany can (at least until it fucks up for them). Germany gets a hugely devalued currency, allowing it to export.
Individual countries don’t have an exchange rate, the ability to devalue their currency, and until now, where Germany now decides to build itself a huge army, the ability to run deficits to manage downturns.
I understand the appeal European integration on a social level has to European people, but the Euro has accentuated differences between countries in it, ultimately contributing to the rise of the far right. The exact opposite of the social integration European people hoped for.
No.
Elon’s mother stopped him having that cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg because of his bad back. That wasn’t his fault.
It’s a meme stock, not an ‘investment’.
And now Musk has parlayed it, and his various pyramid scheme-like companies into replacing as much of the US government as he can get away with with his junk.
The US will suffer.
I very clearly said “ultimately contributing to the rise of the far right” not “had had a major role in…”