(June 23, 2020 at 1:33 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(June 23, 2020 at 1:29 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Let's not be hasty. Maybe he thinks fascists shouldn't hold elections because he agrees with fascists and thinks that The Donald isn't fascist enough.
Or he doesn't quite get that authoritarians can hold elections, but rig them so that the voters' actual decisions mean nothing.
Beside the point. His claim wasn’t that elections staged by authoritarians aren’t free and fair, but that they don’t happen, full stop.
It’s been a long while since my last poli-sci class, but I’m pretty sure the academic term for this is ‘being as ignorant as a cartload of arseholes’.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
