Reply #16: Oh, they're all the same aren't they, H2O? what's the point in voting, eh? [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

That's what I ask myself. What's the point? (Now, of all kites and crows, I don't expect you to take me to task, misinterpreting my intended irony!) I love Hunter S Thompson's line: "she (a young woman) thought politics was some kind of game played by old people, like bridge."

That man was some genius. I'm re-reading Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail for the second time in five months or so. And the passage concerned is a little master-piece of understatement, scarcely revealing the profundity of his understanding of the madness of our world and his compassion for its hundreds of millions of victims. And the young woman concerned could scarcely have individually personified their tragedy more poignantly. I was tempted to quote the page or so on her plight in the general folder, as it must be so much worse in the US now; as indeed it is in the UK.