Down here the Argentine version of Berlusconi is very close to winning the next election, and the worse part is that his voters not only, well, vote for him, but defend him with claws and teeth, and harshly attack the current government whenever they can, I just had no idea there were so many of them. There is a theory that the current government got so much people out of poverty, and now being barely middle class they see themselves as oligarchs, or at least identify themselves with them, and that's why they vote for them, forgetting who got them out of poverty in the first place.
We live in an effed up world, but we vote for it, I say we have no right to complain.
I have to disagree with Naomi here, they still fool us, and they are still in control, and their methods still work. People have short memories and, I would say, selfish interests, but this could only be truth if they knew what was god for them, they don't. They get fooled once and again and bring these things upon themselves.
