Wow. A very powerful piece by the French intellectual, and left-of-centre philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy.
Excoriating Jeremy “Jezza” Corbyn. Yet I have friends who would vote for this Jezza. This anti-Semite. This Jew hater. This Islam apologist. This jihad junkie. They would do so because they see him as "progressive", which is to say, proto-Marxist. Anti American. Because America is responsible for all the ills, all the nastiness, all the colonial-imperialist horridness in the world.
Don chu know.
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Winston Churchill once warned Europe that, by choosing the dishonor of Hitlerism in a bid to avoid war, they would, in the end, reap both Hitlerism and war.
It now behooves Europeans to say to their British partners that by cutting corners, playing with fire, lying to voters and allies, avoiding history, and shrinking from their own greatness, they, too, risk winding up with both—this time both Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn.
About the catastrophe that Brexit portends, nearly everything has been said, and now all that remains is for the United Kingdom either to lurch toward the abyss or, as Jean-Paul Sartre said, to "take back its move."
But I am not sure things are quite so clear about the dishonor that would attend Jeremy Corbyn coming to power in the country of Disraeli and Churchill, about the looming disaster of general elections in which he might, if the polls are right, cash in on the wear and tear suffered by his Conservative opponent, Theresa May, and on what may appear, in contrast, to be his "ideological consistency."
https://www..com/scroll/270118/standing-at-the-twilight-of-democracy
