Just some food for thought.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Its not just europe.

Carter was in the US when Trudeau was in Canada, and I'm sure they were equals out in Europe.
Reagan was in the US when Mulroney was here, and Thatcher over in the UK, and again, I'm sure equals in other places.
Then we had people like Clinton and Chretien and Blair and Schroder etc.
Now we are swinging back to the right.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

How is the OVP-SPO coalition government considered left-wing? Idiots.

How is the OVP-SPO coalition government considered left-wing? Idiots.

If the S means Socialist than it is.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

There are certain events that when they come to pass cause all governments to lose power. If the governments were all of one stripe it might falsely look like a swing to the other.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Remember too that what is "right wing" in Stockholm would be "left wing" in Houston.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Poland is the only country in europe with really right-wing parties.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Anyway, as I said "You can't compare loser countries to real countries" which vanished for some reason without any noted moderator action noted in my log, so I will say what I mean using less colourful language.

You can not compare the "right/left" wingidness of a government in a country that is struggling in the middle of bottom of the "developing country" list, to that of a country that is "developed". Developed and Developing countries have very very different needs and trying to compare places like Guyana (on this map) to Luxembourg (on the previous map) is just plain silly.