Thursday night...

So I went out with a couple of friends Thursday night.

We'd been eating and drinking heavily at my place with my wife and a friend of hers.
I don't remember all that much from that night. I was extremely intoxicated. The young guys I invited over had brought a nice bottle of rum. After drinking a bit of that, we went to the club in town where the party was.

My wife and her friend went home early and left me and my boys at the club.  At some point I went outside for a minute to get some fresh air and I ran into a Turkish guy. We chatted for a bit and somehow started to talk about poitics. He flat out said what I've been thinking for a while: That he wasn't really interested in politics here in Denmark, because it didn't matter who you vote for. They areall the same.

I've been writing earlier about the similarities between the Danish election 2011 and Obama's election 2008. Now the second round of the French election is coming up and it looks like the "socialist" Francois Hollande is going to win it. The question is whether his characteristics are the same as Obama/Thorning's.

I fear he is another Trojan Horse. What i mean by that, is that there seems to be a trend that the so called left wing's candidates are nothing more than a handpuppet for industry and the financial sector. In Denmark it seems like you can't really become a serious contender for prime minister and governing unless you sell out completely andbuy into the German type austerity instead of doing what you're supposed to do as a social democrat and use Keynesian measures to repair a broken economy. In the US it's even worse. The super pacs and corporate citizenship has turned democracy on it's head completely. It would be comical if it wasn't so dangerous and sad.

If Hollande on the other hand turns out to be the real deal and not the same type of sellout pseudo-socialist as Thorning and Obama, he could be the start of that move to the left in Europe that we so desperately need. If I was religious, I would pray for him.

Have a nice weekend