<DIV>My two cents: I agree with Doug. Watching all of this from Moscow confirms my belief that the west, especially the US, has no business telling Russians what this country's civil society project should be about. <BR><BR><B><I>Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Dennis Perrin wrote:<BR><BR>>As an American, I can't see anything unprecedented here. Reagan? Ventura?<BR><BR>You're right there's lots of continuity - it's the latest chapter in <BR>a long history of hopped-up idiocy. But Reagan, for all his problems, <BR>had a history in politics, from the presidency of the Screen Actors <BR>Guild through the PR for General Electric through the '64 Goldwater <BR>nomination speech. Not Arnie. But it's the idiocy of the recall <BR>process that bothers me more - some moneyed rightwingers instigate a <BR>pseudo-populist rebellion, and a crypto-Nazi who's likely to rely on <BR>the Wilson gang for adult supervision takes over.<BR><BR>Doug<BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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