The Little Train that Couldn’t

While the usual European talking heads maintain the hobby of ragging on America about low voter turnout, and the extrapolation of about a million and one theories about why that proves that they fart daisies, they seemed to have overlooked the fact that unless you dangle a welfare check in front of their noses, the European left won’t get out of bed to vote, no matter how much they parrot the American left’s vacuous “vote for change” rhetoric.

This result is more than two points lower than in 2004, which was then the lowest in the parliament's history at 45.5%.

Besides Belgium and Luxembourg where voting is compulsory and turnout is traditionally around 90 percent, the figures were highest in Malta, where almost 79 percent of the citizens cast their vote.

Left, right, or indifferent, Europeans prefer the Führerprinzip anyway, and now that it hasn’t worked in favor of the easily published, the hateful tauntsmust now begin again.

By contrast, only 19.6 of Slovaks voted on Saturday. In the country's first EU election in 2004, it registered the lowest ever score in the bloc's history at 17 percent.

Lithuania came second with 20.9 percent – a dramatic drop compared to its first election in 2004, when almost half of Lithuanians voted (48.4%).

Some 24.5 percent voted in Poland and 28.2 percent in the Czech Republic and in Slovenia.

Apparently, they NEED compulsion to get off to a good start. After all, it’s for their own good.