life without a plot

I almost wish sometimes our far right was that explicit. Instead it's that particular nauseating mixture of courting the ex- and new nazis (as well as those who wouldn't call themselves that, but are, more or less) in terms perfectly well understood by them, but just veiled enough to make denial possible, if not plausible, and stay in office. Even after eight years I'm still bitter and disillusioned about the coalition between the ÖVP and FPÖ, and even though the EU sanctions gave them the chance to style themselves as martyrs, taking the whole country, including those who never voted for either party, hostage, (and, believe it or not, make a pilgrimage to Mariazell when the sanctions were lifted... I can't even find words for that) I could and can understand that reaction perfectly well. It was one of the few demonstration I went to in my life, totally spontaneously, totally disbelieving and outraged that they could do that, after everything we'd seen and heard from Haider & co over the last decade.