Wednesday, August 06, 2003
KIM JONG-IL WINS IN ELECTION LANDSLIDE! (link courtesy of Gweilo Diaries) One of the comments on this post asks a very interesting question:
The "100% of the vote" figures are completely non-credible. When the Mob ran Chicago and controlled the elections, they didn't report 100%, they reported believable figures. 66%, 70%, 58%, a win, but not so large a win that the fraud was bare-faced for all the world to see. Is this a property of the culture, of the governmental type, or just of the sorts of people who become tyrants?There's a good Ph.D dissertation in there somewhere.
