Voice from the Commonwealth Commentary, World Views and Occasional Rants from a small 'l' libertarian in Massachussetts
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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Praise for Voice
"A smart fellow...I do like, recommend and learn from Barbera's blog." -Roger L. Simon
"Your blog is bullshit"- anonymous angry French reader.
Just a thought on France and LePen and the people of France. America is constantly portrayed as a racist place full of cowboys that constantly needs to be told to be nice to foreigners. And when LePen, who is compared to David Duke or Pat Robertson, wins a vicotry in the French election we are told by a number of commentators that, "well, don't read too much into this, he didn't win a much bigger block of voters thn he normally does and if the Trotskyites and Communists voted for Jospin he would have taken it."
But, I have a question about the voters in general. Pat Robertson's xenophobic message resonated with less than 1% of the American population whereas 17.3% of the French population identified with a similar message from LePen. Hmmmmmm.....
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