iOS app Android app More  David Fagin   Where Have We Seen This
Before?  Posted: 05/09/2012 12:52 pm  By now, most of us have
heard of Golden Dawn, the Greek Neo-Nazi party who claim they're
not Neo-Nazis, shocked, not only the Greeks, but the rest of the
world, by winning close to 7% in Greece's parliamentary
elections -- meaning they will be sending around 21 deputies to
parliament in the coming months.  Running on a campaign based
around anti-immigration, anti-austerity, and all-around fear,
Golden Dawn's leader, Nikolaos Mihaloliakos (try saying that
five times fast) took advantage of his country's economic and
social hopelessness to instill his message of hate to the
masses. And, he was sadly rewarded. Fascist salutes, and all.
After the decimation of the German economy in the 1930s, another
man ran on almost the exact same platform; blaming immigrants
and "outsiders" for his country's problems, capitalizing on the
current government's ineptitude and inability to produce any
kind of meaningful change, a