| That Russia link was quite a read. In the end I read it as heavy pragmatism tinged with optimist rather than a "big lie". You always have to be careful with translated idiom, but I don't see its tendency to elitism as a bad thing. Most are too busy with their own affairs to be bothered with politics, so you can't avoid finishing up with a "political class". I read its main message as trying to recruit an already influential audience into that political class. A young talented weatherproof person wanting to improve the world could do worse than migrate to Russia or India. Sure both have plenty of closet skeletons, but they certainly provide more reason for hope than the corn belt. Maybe the biggest trouble with English-speaking Tweedle pollies is that they have superceded ideological goals with opportunist tactics. They don't stand for anything beyond the next election, or often the next poll. And way too many of them have bought into the Christian crapfest which gives a fair indication of their brain power, not that intelligence per se has many runs on the board either. |
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