This may come as a shock to those who think that Europe is a bastion of liberal thought. It is merely a bastion of leftist thought, and as I have realized, leftists can be just as much against freedom as any rightists. This is yet another example of why I would be forced into voting for those I don't even strongly support, just because the opposition is so authoritarian and despotic while attempting to appear like they are on the side of good. The French presidential election is in less than two months. I assume the powers that be think that the people cannot detect the trampling of democracy when they learn that "The European Parliament voted Thursday to lift French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s immunity from prosecution for tweeting gruesome images of violence, a crime that carries up to three years in prison under French law. The legislature voted by a broad majority in Brussels to clear the way for the possible prosecution of Le Pen over tweets she made in Dec...