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Originally Posted by Mynydd
If you are trying to find out a pattern of logics behind any of the words or actions of the Socialists in Spain (or in Sweden or anywhere else), you are wasting time.
They call it progresismo (progressism), I call it palurdismo (slobbism).
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I call it
babbeismo and we'll stop with that term.
This test is very important for Malta, if the PN Government gives in due to any pressure it might even be a bigger hit for the upcoming elections. PN, although once a truly glorious nationalist party is now mostly a centre-left Christian Democrat organisation having exponents with various tendencies from the liberal to the conservative, from the Catholic to the secular or atheist, from people known for harbouring sympathy even towards communist ideologies to others being effectively conservative and right-wing. The traditional vote of PN however, has always been the conservative middle-class without neglecting any other socio-economic classes (early and integral PN had quite a definite social programme mostly based on the principles of Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum). If the government gives in on this one, their traditional and most ardent supporters would probably tell them to forget the vote (and many are already doing this for many other reasons).
The man in my avatar was the leader from arond the early 1920s to his death in 1950. Now he was a nationalist, the 1947 PN electoral programme concluded with the phrase
"NAZIONALISMO PER SEMPRE!" ("Nationalism for ever!"). Nowadays he would probably have told the EU that we are not anyone's slaves as much as he used to tell that to British authorities. Today, the party with all resources, is spiritually and ideologically a sad excuse for its glorious traditional past.
Let us see if they stoop even lower by giving in on this one.