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February 5, 2009 - 4:11 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Oh, bother
2009-02-06 18:17:26

Roderick Reilly asks at 62, “Do any of you think that we are turning into a plutocracy?” No, Mr. Reilly, I think we have already turned into a kleptocracy. Soon we will be a socialist kleptocracy if we are not careful. But I repeat myself; all socialists are kleptocrats.

Somehow, 53 million of us went off into some La-la Land and elected an inexperienced, socialist Chicago Democrat to the White House. The rest of us are not surprised to find that things will be done the Chicago way for a while. It’s interesting to learn some Obama voters are already experiencing buyers’ remorse. And it seems to me that in a lot of comment threads on various center-right to right blogs the troll count is down. How to capitalize on this?