"They are rioting in Europe because of what the Left has made of their governments. They are not rioting because the government is wrong to promise so much. They are rioting to get even more!" --Dennis Prager re Greece, Spain and elsewhere, Nov.16.12
What utter nonsense.
Starting with the fact that there is no "Europe". There are like 50 Europes.
Followed with the political fact that in the liberal European democracies, all colors of center-left, centre-right, centrist, and coalition governments take turns in power. The current Greek government is center-right, taking a turn after the center-left, which in turn followed a center-right government. The current Italian government is independent, following Berlusconi's hedonistic center-right government. The current Spanish government is conservative Christian Democratic. Ditto Germany: conservative Christian Democratic. In France, though, the current government is bona fide "Leftist".
In the European Union, the conservative Christian Democratic European People's Party has sovereignly ruled the roost for a long time: in the European Parliament, in the European Council as well as in the European Commission.
To offer actual meaningful "perceptive about Europe", one should bother to study and learn the basic 101 about "Europe", especially about Europe-wide politics as well as national politics, which vary greatly from country to country. Carbon copying the very country-specific US partisan, ideologically charged two-party politics idea and then trying to apply that over "Europe" in order to make meaningful statements about European politics is a guaranteed recipe for failure.