Hello Diplomat,
Thank you, this may free up space on the forum for other relevant topics like playing diplomacy. My two cents for your thread then: I believe Europe (I am Dutch myself) has a big problem: few people seem to really understand the underlying structure of the economic/financial crisis we are facing. The parliament of my country appears to lack both legal experts as well as financial experts to really understand the problems that we are facing and this makes effective democratic control very difficult.
The problem is further aggravated by the rise of populist parties who appeal to the instincts of large groups of people who feel the fact that we're in a crisis means that the system "failed" to take care of their finances properly and we shouldn't assist the mediterranean countries, but eject them from the Euro-zone somehow. Even though instinctively I can see what they mean, I wonder if intellectually that is a reasonable point of view.
I wonder if the "Tea Party" movement in the US plays a similar role and whether the US citizens on the forum believe their leaders in Congress (not so much the administration) can still exercise effective democratic control of the government.
Also I am curious whether Europeans generally share the views I express here and see the same problems in their own nations.
Also, I wonder how the rest of the world regards the problems that currently face Europe and to what extend they are similar to theirs and/or affect their own countries.
...Discuss :)
Redhouse

This won't work. There are too many topics to have in this one thread. It will be too cluttered with too many debates going at the same time imo.

@redhouse : You'd be hard-pressed to find an American who has much faith in Congress to get anything done. Strangely enough, we still vote for the guys ... the old saw is that it's always somebody else's representative who's the problem.

this will work if people choose to use it.

Yeah, I wish someone had thought if doing something like this before...oh wait.

I have muted this thread so I can participate in the others ;)

No I am joking

Ah yes, Mr. Feces. Before you go on let's remind everybody of your tasteless thread on the 9/11 attacks and let me say that I believe I speak for the majority of people on this site that the second part of your last post shattered our hopes for a normal discussion.

http://www.webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?threadID=766657

lol

+1 redhouse...

bump, and the occupy wall street arguments can be moved here.

use it people!!!!!!

lol, other then me and Obi who are the other 2 who +1 redhouse?

me

and use this forum

Okay we have lots to discuss such as the state of democracy / the economy around the planet (see third post)
And join my game:
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=69549

i won 140 in a game so i can now if i so choose, but likely wont.

but thats unrelated. please discuss politics only n this forum, there is an advertise game forum elsewhere.

The "occupy wall street" thread does not need to move here. It already has a thread of its own. *This* thread is pointless.

you are pointless :) j/k

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Hey Jamiet and jmo nice to meet you both, I'm redhouse and I'm curious to your thoughts on my first post on the economic crisis :)
Where are you from? Do your countries have similar issues as mine?
Cheers