Europe, the right continent?

Is Europe becoming a conservative continent? Belgium, Denmark, France, Holland, Italy, Sweden and much of eastern countries have already succumbed to the wave of expansion of the right in a traditionally leftist Europe. Today they are only a minority of states that maintain the social democratic leadership and everything indicates that the UK will be the next to turn in 2010. A real sociological change is occurring in front of our eyes and it seems the culmination of the process is inevitable. Is it the crisis? Is the rise of extreme right? Is it  the lack of leadership? Or is it simply the need to toggle? The answer is now the great riddle. An enigma that, as usual in political matters, the United States has long passed.

The American response came five years ago, when British journalists John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge published a book describing a phenomenon easily applicable in Europe today. Under the title ‘The right nation’, the authors narrated, from the perspective of outside observers, how the United States had the most pronounced turn right in history without  generating any social alarm. As if it were Toqueville and Beaumont, Micklethwait and Wooldridge rode throughout to draw conclusions from that fact. This time, however, the response was not the proactive spirit of the Americans who discovered the French, but their deep conviction that their peculiar and prevailing conservatism was the natural evolution of the American sentiment. Northamericans had completely renounced the behavior of class to give priority to the values of family, freedom and security. They had established a climate of opinion that effected all parts of the political system and caused and unprecedented shift of the social paradigm. Certainly many think this dynamic today has been broken with Obama , but the fact is that the current president would not had won the elections without the triangulation.

Are we (Europeans) experiencing the same process? Maybe we do or maybe not, but surely we can admit that many factors discovered by British journalists are taking place in our continent. Four factors in total of which include a low turnout, internal discipline, activism and professionalism. The European conservatism, parallelly to the U.S., is now the most disciplined, organized and coordinated the political movement. In this sense, it is remarkable how right-wing parties broadcast perfectly a single message through their highly mobilized members. Just like the 300 Spartans, they are spreading out their elaborated message with a unanimous battle cry that lead all of us  to the resignation of all our feelings of class and the assumption that we are… Ahu, ahu, Ahu! Will Europe be a conservative continent?

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