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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| The Allure of Tyranny |
| 2007-12-04 |
| Russians voted away their freedoms, and Venezuelans almost did. Why? |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #12 WAFF.com > NEWSWEEK [12/01/2007] - THE WAR IN THE KREMLIN. *OTOH, WAFF Poster believes that Russia is being de facto governed by MOBSTERS??? Recall EDGAR CAYCE'S WARNING ON "A MOB RULE" but for the USA??? REGNUM.RU > UKRAINIAN ANALYST:PUTIN IS EXPANDING HIS CONTROL OF THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA. See also REDDIT/TOPIX > WHY VENEZUELANS VOTED AGZ CHAVEZ. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-12-04 21:08 |
| #11 Dostoevsky nailed this tendency in his "The Grand Inquisitor" chapter from The Brothers Karamazov. Wretchard has quoted from it rather extensively over the years. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-12-04 18:03 |
| #10 1960 ? Wisconsin and Washington (state), 2006. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-12-04 15:58 |
| #9 Could? Something about Illinois, Chicago, 1960. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-12-04 12:08 |
| #8 ask not why but who counts the votes. If we don't maintain our own voter integrity, it could happen here too. |
| Posted by: Whomong Guelph4611 2007-12-04 11:10 |
| #7 Never heard of Huey Long, but after a quick look, isn't it interesting that he was a politician during the great depression? Oh, and by the way....I didn't know....Happy Chanukkah Stan O'Neil and Kathleen Corbet and everyone else I'm missing... |
| Posted by: Goober Glilet3155 2007-12-04 10:47 |
| #6 Why? Russia has no democractic tradition. Venezuela has precious little democratic tradition. That's pretty much it in a nutshell. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-12-04 09:43 |
| #5 . . . starting to look a lot like we've been plundered by Wall Street. Is this just "populist" demagougery in the tradition of Huey Long, or subtle anti-Semitisim (e.g., (Ever notice that Hugo Chavez is just the Spanish-language translation of Huey Long? Or that Osama sometimes sounds just like your average Mk.1 Mod.0 anti-globalist?) |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-12-04 09:32 |
| #4 Chavez has given Venezuelan nationslity and vote to a million Colombian leftists. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-12-04 09:16 |
| #3 Thomas Mann ever raise any kids? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2007-12-04 08:39 |
| #2 Leo Naphta, the great character of Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain": "Its (youth's) deepest desire is to obey." Like ants. Or honeybees. But not like my kids. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-12-04 08:17 |
| #1 Why? How about this....countries that allow a small minority of people to grab/steal all wealth in a country, leaving the rest of the population in chaos scrounging for the few remains, starts to seem like not such a good deal to a lot of people. Watch the U.S. too as it's not impossible to think that it could happen here...starting to look a lot like we've been plundered by Wall Street. |
| Posted by: Goober Glilet3155 2007-12-04 08:08 |