Will their US overlords allow that? Some EU countries, especially Germany, are host to US military bases.

I do quibble, however — “neoliberal” is an unfortunate and somewhat misleading coinage. The agenda and attitudes of what is called neoliberalism is really better described as neofeudalism.

Are you familiar with the investigative findings by Greg Palast on election and eligibility rules in various states and “scrubbing” certain names in particular districts, mainly for those who are considered Democrats, especially black voters?

Between electronic voting, and mail-in ballots, a lot of fraudulent vote “counting” has happened, not to mention laws against poll takers outside election sites. The most honest way for voting and accurate vote count is by hand-counted paper ballots. As a former poll worker before the electronic machines were introduced, I can testify to the honesty of hand-counted paper ballots.

But back to Patrick’s article, “centrist” still means Right-wing and the word “neoliberal” is shylocking on a national level, in spite of the various definitions of it, at least in my opinion.

I highly recommend the book, ‘The Scourage of Neoliberalism From Reagan To Trump’ by Dr. Jack Rasmus, Professor of Economics (jackrasmus.com) which illustrates how many trillions of dollars the U.S. government lost with the escalation of tax cuts for the very wealthy and large corporations these past forty plus years.

And in Europe, Macron worked for the French Rothschild bank, so it shouldn’t be a surprise how unpopular he is with his “austerity” programs for the working-class. And Scholz of Germany is pathetic! A flunky for U.S.and Zionist imperialism for world conquest. And the sabotage of the Nordstream 2 pipeline which Germany needed for their economy, along with other European countries. And Starmer of England? Another fascist and flunky controlled by British imperialists and the Zionist bankers in the City of London.

Yes …. and no.

I do believe that US elections are mostly fair, largely due to the LACK of centralization (which is why I am strongly opposed to any federal interventions in elections). It’s one heck of a lot harder to rig 50 state elections, each with their own idiosyncrasies and political environments, than it is to rig 1 federal election run by uni-party swamp dwellers.

That said, I do have great reservations about how many states changed voting rules on the fly in 2020 in violation of their state constitutions in order to prioritize mail-in voting during Covid. But what’s done is done. Most of those issues have been dealt with in the ensuing four years and there is no upside to re-litigating the past.

I also have some concerns about how a few states have implemented opaque vote-counting systems that can go on for weeks/months after the election. Even if they are completely legitimate and fair (and I’m not entirely sure they are), the optics are terrible when seats that went one way on election night slowly but surely get flipped after the election. It looks like they will just keep finding votes until they get the result they want. And I’m not buying the excuse that they can’t count all the votes on election day. India counted 640 million votes in one day. Brazil counted 125 million votes in one day. But I am supposed to believe that Arizona and California need nearly a month to count 3MM and 16MM votes respectively? Sorry, that is just a bridge too far for me.

Not in 2020.
Jan. 6 was an op to derail any closer looks.

This time around, as DJT said, it was too big to rig.

Great comment, Joy!
Superior dot connecting.