primitives discuss elections in Austria

[franksolich]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029713747

Oh my.

How it downcasts the primitives, based upon other threads dealing with the same topic.

RandySF (15,171 posts)     Sun Oct 15, 2017, 01:05 PM

Initial results show Austria tilting right in national vote

Initial results showed the party of Austria's 31-year-old foreign minister leading in national elections Sunday, putting him on course to become the youngest head of government in Europe.

Projections from the SORA polling organization showed the People's Party led by Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz receiving 30.5 percent of the vote and the euroskeptic Freedom Party 26. 8 percent of the vote. Both parties had focused their campaigns on concerns about immigration and Islam.

The Social Democrats, who campaigned on the need for social equality, were projected to come third with 26.2 percent of the vote.

While the projections were based on initial results, they could herald a coalition between the two parties that would mean a rightward turn for Austria, now governed by a coalition made up of the Social Democrats and the People's Party.

The parties with the initial lead have called for securing Austria's borders and quickly deporting asylum-seekers whose requests are denied — ideas that appear to have been heard.

The People's Party went into the election with the most support, according to polls, with the Freedom Party second and the Social Democrats third.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/15/austria-election-results-projections-show-austria-tilting-right.html

By the way, this guy was foreign minister of Austria at the age of.....27.

I thought primitives liked child prodigies.

stevenleser (31,673 posts)      Sun Oct 15, 2017, 01:06 PM

1. If I had to pick a country in Western Europe that would succumb to the current pressures to go right

... Austria would be the one.

Not much of a surprise there.

A primitive who's an idiot about Teutonic history:

Iliyah (11,775 posts)      Sun Oct 15, 2017, 01:11 PM

2. Austria aligned with Hilter

Agreed, no surprise.

Damn. 

That's a really stupid comment.

It boggles the mind, it's so stupid and so wrong.

[USA4ME]

Iliyah

Austria aligned with Hilter

As did Poland, Belgium, Denmark, France, and some others. Russia tried, but then winter came.

.

[SVPete]

Iliyah

Austria aligned with Hilter

The Anschluss was not voluntary. Not that facts matter on DU.

[Delmar]

The Anschluss was not voluntary. Not that facts matter on DU.

What is needed is some smart analysis from a sure and steady old expert in statecraft.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1diNthezRk[/youtube]

[Old n Grumpy]

stevenleser (31,673 posts)      Sun Oct 15, 2017, 01:06 PM

1. If I had to pick a country in Western Europe that would succumb to the current pressures to go right

... Austria would be the one.

Not much of a surprise there.

It is always easy to predict after the fact!

[franksolich]

I went back to the thread to see if the stupid primitive had corrected her mistake, but no, she hadn't.

There was this there:

Yupster (13,938 posts)      Sun Oct 15, 2017, 01:53 PM

3. I went to college in Austria in 1980

It was a very conservative, orderly society.

I went back a few years ago and was surprised to see people in full burkhas. I admit it was disturbing.

One time we were in a restaurant and two couples were at the neighboring table, both women in full burkhas. The women had tp bring each piece of food under their veil? to eat. They couldn't participate in the table talk. You couldn't see if they were enjoying themselves or not. When the waiter came, the woman would whisper in her husband's ear and the husband would ask the waiter for something for his wife. It wasn't just covering up. It was removing the woman from the picture. It was disturbing.

I'm not surprised the Austrians will forma backlash against this, especially Austrian women, who I found to be very assertive.

[SVPete]

Yupster (13,938 posts)      Sun Oct 15, 2017, 01:53 PM
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I went back a few years ago and was surprised to see people in full burkhas. I admit it was disturbing.

One time we were in a restaurant and two couples were at the neighboring table, both women in full burkhas. The women had tp bring each piece of food under their veil? to eat. They couldn't participate in the table talk. You couldn't see if they were enjoying themselves or not. When the waiter came, the woman would whisper in her husband's ear and the husband would ask the waiter for something for his wife. It wasn't just covering up. It was removing the woman from the picture. It was disturbing.
...

This should be Alert-worthy. Admitting that Muslim women are treated like non-persons is so un-Progressive.

[DumbAss Tanker]

The Hell you say, DUmmie, Austria is lefter than Germany and quite a few other places in Euroland.

[SVPete]

From what I've read - W'pedia, nothing especially deep - Austrians favored a merger with Germany in the years just before Hitler gained power in Germany. But in the years just after Hitler took power Austrian Nazis went full thug and turned the Austrian people against them.

Two years or so DU Euro-worshipers were probably praising Austria (among others) to the hilt for opening its arms incautiously to "refugees". Austrians have had to live with the fruit of that, and it's been worse than seeing burka-clad females' practical problems while eating at restaurants and cafes.

[I_B_Perky]

The man does have a nice looking wife if the pic I saw was of him and his wife.  I've been told he is handsome as well.

So we got:

1. Conservative? Check.
2. Good looking young man? Check.
3. Good looking wife? Check.

Ain't any wonder the dummies hate him.  To be realistic this affects me not at all and neither does it affect the dummies.  Unfortunately for them, they are petty children and are all in an uproar. This makes me happy for some reason.