Be careful what you wish for...
...'cos you just might get it all...
Democratic self-deprecation isn’t quite as funny as it once was. Mobs have already taken to the venerable, iconic streets of European states, notably among them Greece, birthplace of Athenian democracy.Scary, scary stuff.
It’s apparently easier to give wealth away than it is to take it back. Democracy assembled the welfare state peaceably enough. Can democracy dismantle it as peaceably? No, it can’t.
The mobs are not finished.
The World Socialists’ website proclaims an age of rage ahead – and chillingly quotes British historian Simon Schama: “You can smell the sulphur in the air.”
2 comments:
That sulphur reference really gets around.
I wonder which idiot used it first.
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not as much original thought out there as you might think.
if i had a nickel for every time some unimaginative little troll dropped by to call me the same silly names... i'd be a rich man.
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