Today Americans cast a historical vote. Witnessing a black reaching the top job in a country which such a history of racial discrimination is just amazing. And it as much a testament to the change that has happened in the last 50 years as the proof that change is indeed possible. As an aside, it is quite interesting that it would happen in the US and not in Europe, a continent always first to give lessons in democracy to the world...

And yet the biggest news is not the color of Obama's skin. The fact that a black was elected shows how much the world has already changed. But more change is on the way, change we might not be so proud of when we look back in a few years. The biggest piece of news, and the reason things will definitely not be the same in the future, is the fact that the new president is so much to the left of the political spectrum. America has now officialy entered the twighlight zone of Socialism, pretty much breaking with a tradition of economic freedom and laissez-faire (even though we had more retoric than reality on this in past).

Obviously, everyone in Europe is delighted to have a new friend in the US who will understand and support the interventionist, statist and redistributionist policies they have been trying to push in the past. Let's just hope that along the way someone in the administration will realize that it's Socialism that brought Nazism and Communism and that you can only achieve totalitarism by taking from one to give to another...