HMMM: ITALY'S THREE MAIN PARTIES REFUSE TO COMPROMISE AND FORM A GOVERNMENT ...

.... AND NOT A RETHUGLICAN OR TEA PARTIER OR NEOCON IN SIGHT.

I THINK THIS PROVES THAT BLAMING INTRANSIGENCE ON THE RIGHT-WING, (WHICH IS WHAT THE LEFT IS CONSTANTLY  SAYING), IS BS - EVERYWHERE.

I THINK WE'VE ACTUALLY REACHED A POINT WHERE COMPROMISE IS NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE WE ARE AT SUCH A  CRITICAL FORK IN THE ROAD:

THE LEFT WANTS TO "DOUBLE-DOWN" ON THE SOCIALISTIC POLICIES WHICH HAVE DRIVEN CYPRUS AND ITALY AND SPAIN AND PORTUGAL AND IRELAND AND OTHER EU "NATIONS" TO THE BRINK.

THE RIGHT WANTS TO STOP AND REVERSE COURSE.

THE FAILURE TO CHANGE COURSE - OR EVEN SLOW THE SOCIALISTIC PROGRAMS DOWN A LITTLE- WILL LEAD US ALL OVER THE BRINK.

AND SOONER THAN YOU THINK!

SIGH.

AND I DO MEAN US ALL - AS IN THE EU AND THE USA AND JAPAN AND CHINA AND INDIA.... NO COUNTRY WILL BE UNTOUCHED.

THE GLOBAL NATURE OF THIS IMPENDING CATASTROPHE SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO CONVINCE THE STATISTS/SOCIALIST/LEFTISTS THAT IT HAS ABSOFREAKIN NOTHING TO DO WITH THE "BUSH TAX CUTS" OR BUSH'S "2 UNFUNDED WARS" OR "GOP DEREGULATION".

IT'S THE SOCIALISM, STUPID!

SIGH.

IF SOCIALISM WORKED THEN THE USSR AND RED CHINA AND ZIMBABWE AND NORTH KOREA AND CUBA WOULD BE WONDERFUL PLACES TO LIVE INSTEAD OF SH*T TO BE FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET OF HISTORY.

SO... WHY THEN HAS SOCIALISM PERSISTED?

SIMPLE:

DEMAGOGUERY:

POLITICIANS PROMISE THE MASSES THEY CAN KEEP THEIR STATE-DISTRIBUTED GOODIES, AND EVEN GET MORE GOODIES,  BECAUSE THEY WILL MAKE THE OTHER GUY PAY.

AND - SINCE MOST PEOPLE ARE NOW ON ONE TYPE OF DOLE OR ANOTHER - MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE THEM.

SIGH.