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[Ideologue]

Number 2. He looks like an archaeologist.

I liked how serious he was about leaning on banisters.

I'm sure they're in fact all secessionist scum and thus I'm sure I hope they all die, but he's got a good look.

[celedhring]

#2 and #6 are the secessionist candidates. #6 tops the list of the united secessionist front, made-up of the two big center-left and center-right nationalist parties, and #2 tops the list of the really fringe lefty nationalist party.

#7 is a nationalist moderate (non-secessionist), christian-democrat.

#5 is "we are not secessionists neither unionists, what matters is the PLIGHT OF THE PEOPLE!". Fact is that their list has candidates from both sides - theirs is a coalition of several lefty parties - so they try not to dwell too much in the national issue.

Rest are unionists.

[viper37]

#2 and #6 are the secessionist candidates. #6 tops the list of the united secessionist front, made-up of the two big center-left and center-right nationalist parties, and #2 tops the list of the really fringe lefty nationalist party.

#7 is a nationalist moderate (non-secessionist), christian-democrat.

#5 is "we are not secessionists neither unionists, what matters is the PLIGHT OF THE PEOPLE!". Fact is that their list has candidates from both sides - theirs is a coalition of several lefty parties - so they try not to dwell too much in the national issue.

Rest are unionists.

it is amazing how politics tend to be similar from place to place, sometimes.
#5 is exactly like Quebec Solidaire over here.  #2 and #6 look exactly like Option Nationale and the Parti Québécois.  #7 would be similar to the Coallition Avenir Québec and the rest of the unionist would be included in the Parti Libéral du Québec.  Only the names and percentages were changed to protect the innocent...

[celedhring]

Regarding the three unionist parties, #1 are liberals,  #3 are conservatives and #4 are social-democrats.

[celedhring]

A few Republican lawmakers have backed the Catalan separatists publicly. Dana Rohrabacher, Carlos Curbelo, and Mario Diaz-Balart. Lincoln must be tumbling in his grave.

[Siege]

"A liberal's paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns."

And believe it or not, such a place does indeed already exist:
..It's called Prison"..
Sheriff Joe Arpaio

[Eddie Teach]

"A liberal's paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns."

And believe it or not, such a place does indeed already exist:
..It's called Prison"..
Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Maybe a statist liberal like Raz or Ide.

[Valmy]

"A liberal's paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns."

And believe it or not, such a place does indeed already exist:
..It's called Prison"..
Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Euro liberals are not the same deal.

[celedhring]

Pretty sure our liberals still qualify as socialists in the US playbook, though.

[Valmy]

Pretty sure our liberals still qualify as socialists in the US playbook, though.

In the sense that 5% tax is radical laissez-faire capitalism but 6% is a centralized planned Soviet economy sure

[celedhring]

Anyway last polls show our dear Inés (#1) firmly in second place behind the separatist front (#6), with an outside chance of becoming president if she can build a unionist coalition.

[Valmy]

Anyway last polls show our dear Inés (#1) firmly in second place behind the separatist front, with an outside chance of becoming president if she can build a unionist coalition.

I will be praying to non-Nationalist Jesus that she achieves this goal.

[celedhring]

The main issue is that even if separatists fail to achieve a majority, the unionist parties are far too fragmented and diverse to form any kind of cohesive government. You'd need far lefties and conservatives sitting at the same table, alongside liberals and social-democrats, and maybe christian-democrats too.

[Valmy]

The main issue is that even if separatists fail to achieve a majority, the unionist parties are far too fragmented and diverse to form any kind of cohesive government. You'd need far lefties and conservatives sitting at the same table, alongside liberals and social-democrats, and maybe christian-democrats too.

Something about politics and strange bedfellows.

[celedhring]

That's a lot of bedfellows all with very different kinky tastes, though.