On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 02:45:23PM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > I sorta asked this yesterday, but not directly - is there any mainstream
> > right party in the First World as violent, weird, and cretinous as our
> > GOP?
>
> Sure. Italy's got several. Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium,
> Switzerland, they've all got them.
>
> There is usually a fair-sized crew of real cretins in every country's
> mainstream right wing parties, from Japan to Greece. Our just get more
> airtime, like everything we do.
>
> Plus our random access political career path lets in more subarticulate
> slobs. And our purely commercial journalistic culture makes sure the
> goofiest ones get the most airtime.
>
> Michael
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