No, Ebbie. (grin) I will resist making any untoward remarks about that. I did live in New York State for 10 years (age 10-20), and I certainly learned a lot from that experience. The town I was in would have voted Republican if they ran Bonzo for President instead of Reagan. Hell, even if they ran Charles Manson for president...as long as he was Republican. What a travesty.

BB, the Iraqis are not defying fascism when they cast their votes...they are unintentionally deifying fascism and rubber-stamping World Corporate Empire. And World Corporate Empire IS fascism, on a bigger scale than was ever managed by Hitler or Mussolini or Joe Stalin (the killer who claimed to be an anti-fascist, but was in my opinion one of the great fascists of all time). Fascism is extreme control of society by the few, for the few, from the top, by propaganda, money, fraud, militarism, and deadly force. It can flourish equally well in the form of socialism or capitalism...or combinations of the two.

The Democratic and Republican parties are (in most individual cases, unwittingly) proponents of fascism...mostly in its capitalist mode. Stalin did it in a socialist mode.

You would ask me to choose between 2 insane monsters? No thanks.