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I think it:
1. corresponds with your thoughts.
2. shows once and for all that history is not, in fact, over.
3. shows that the economic crisis is deeper, bigger, longer than many would have us believe.

Prof O'Rourke said he has been waiting five years for Europe's leaders to forge the new instruments needed to make the failed experiment work, but it is by now obvious that Germany will not allow fiscal union or shared banking liabilities, and others will not accept a federal political Europe. It therefore pointless to protract the agony.
"The demise of the euro would be a major crisis, no doubt about it. We shouldn’t wish for it. But if a crisis is inevitable then it is best to get on with it, while centrists and Europhiles are still in charge. If the euro is eventually abandoned, my prediction is that historians 50 years from now will wonder how it ever came to be introduced in the first place," he said.

Very well put.

Big political changes in a time of economic crisis? IMPOSSIBLE!

It's nothing to worry about. Irrelevant parties picking up seats in irrelevant bodies in irrelevant elections. How many council seats did UKIP win? What majority do the racists have in the European Parliament? This election is just some lads having a go at the political establishment to vent their frustration at the general ineptitude of the ruling political class.

I am a huge fan of Marine Le Pen. I see her as a shining beacon of sanity and rationality in a world blind to political and economic realities of the world we live in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen

I have not been this inspired by a politician in a long time. This type of political candidate would win my vote in a heartbeat if they were to run in the U.S.

I sensed a bit of facetiousness in his post....