Re: Millionaire mullahs

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/12/06, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yoshie wrote:
> >We have to acknowledge that those who
> >say things like Nader can't easily get on ballots here, and American
> >voters don't vote for them either when they do.  Iran is very
> >different from the USA, or rather the USA is very different from much
> >of the rest of the world.
>
> Well, there is a Supreme Council in Iran that decides who can run or not.
> Reform candidates routinely get blocked because they don't satisfy criteria
> that is defined nowhere. It is totally the whim of these idiots in robes.
> Evidently people like Ahmadinejad past muster.

People who espouse economic platforms like Nader's or Ahmadinejad's
don't get on ballots here, let alone get elected.  We have plutocrats
here who control politics more tightly than the Guardian Council in
Iran.  :->

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