Loony left Dhimmicrats' most popular blog: Iran a progressive paradise
Dr. Sanity undertook the Herculean task of wading through a Daily Kos thread about Iran. She reports that the Kos denizens consider Iran a progressive paradise: Lest anyone have any doubts about exactly where the lunatic left stands, I urge you to read this incredible column up at Daily Kos, touting the wonderfulness of Iran (in comparison to the U.S., of course). You guessed it! Iran is a veritable "progressive" paradise!Tell it to Zahra Amir Ebrahimi. And read the whole thing.Iran has invested its oil wealth in universal education, healthcare, infrastructure bringing clean water and electricity to more than 98 percent of its people, and economic progress. Military spending is a paltry $91 per capita compared to more than $1,500 per capita in the United States and Israel. The social and economic achievements of the revolutionary regime in Iran in the past 25 years look quite progressive in reducing poverty and social inequalities, and as the society liberalises toward a more secular democratic regime, even better progress can be expected in the future. Compared to rising inequality in the United States and Israel, ranked numbers one and two for social inequality among developed nations, the Iranians look pretty damn good.
That, of course, is the problem. If Iran, rather like Venezuela, becomes a regional leader and examplar of social democracy, it becomes a threat to the corporatist and militarist elites that dominate the political classes of Washington and Tel Aviv and exploit the mineral and oil wealth of underdeveloped nations.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:12 AM
3 Comments:
All this has been and continues to be said about nazi germany. This is very scary stuff.
As a religious Jew I am inclined to think why is HaShem brandishing such a stick, what does He want me to correct, do or refrain from doing.
Stemir,
Whatever Hashem wants us to correct, do or refrain from doing, it is clear that we are not correcting it, not doing it, or continuing to do it, respectively.
Yes, maybe even some of us are okay but as a nation there is what to work on. That is the frustrating part, we have absolutely no control beyond our own little selves.
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