On Sep 7, 2010, at 10:03 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> Michael writes:
>
> "This contrived Tea Party thing -- pure
> theater. Staffed by a handful of useful idiots. "
>
> Yes, there's a magnificent bit, near the end of Silone's 'Fontamara' that describes similar theater in southern Italy, just before WWII.
Yeah, but the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant stuff isn't theater. It's widely held and hideous.
Doug