Read all about yer latest Gandhi!

Mar 13, 2013 12:26


This is about what I had figured.

Interesting article in The Diplomat about the inability of the Congress Party of India to give up the idea of (wait-for-it) a decendant of Jawaharlal Nehru / Indira Gandhi to come along and be the Chosen-One Golden-Child to lead them.

Never mind that they don’t seem to avoid sudden violent death at an early age, ( Read more... )

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crankyoldgoat March 13 2013, 17:47:47 UTC
ya know, you should find yourself a copy of the Traveller Pocket Empires rule book.

I think you would enjoy it (and possibly find some disturbing similiarities between the Imperiums techniques for taking over worlds without firing a shot and current politics in this world).

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jrittenhouse March 14 2013, 13:52:14 UTC
As a historian, the cyclical pattern of stupid is a pretty strong indicator of how people pay the wrong sort of attention to the past.

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crankyoldgoat March 14 2013, 16:26:21 UTC
as a general rule, people don't pay attention to the past.

and those that do are generally considered extremist nut cases.

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maiac March 13 2013, 21:12:52 UTC
Your mention of Tafts and Browns made me all nostalgic for my home state.

Speaking of family dynasties: Carl Levin has announced he won't run for re-election to the Senate (woe!) and the talk here is all about whether one of the (ohpleasegodno) Romneys will run for the seat. If we're going to have political nepotism, I'd much rather see Carl's nephew Andy Levin running for the seat -- at least he has some experience in government.

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jrittenhouse March 14 2013, 13:56:45 UTC
Oh, I get nostalgic for my home state all the time. And the younger set wouldn't understand the whole Brown dynasty thing. Or the Tafts, for that matter.

There's no justice in this world if a Romney gets back in Michigan politics. I thought very highly of George Romney, but the rest are so beyond worthless as to not make the cut for dogfood stock material.

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maiac March 14 2013, 14:31:01 UTC
I suspect that Ronna Romney McDaniel has only a slightly better chance of being elected Senator than I have, but it says so much about both the MI Republican Party and the snooze media that she's reported as considering it.

I'd respect George Romney more if his sons hadn't both grown up to be awful people who married awful people. One lousy son may not be the parents' fault, but two suggests something wrong with their upbringing.

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jrittenhouse March 15 2013, 22:41:15 UTC
Nicely put.

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