Pages

 

Recent Pages by wrenchwench (wrenchwench):
Martinez Supports New Immigration Policy A Moral Choice: As Pressure Mounts, Faith Sustains Veteran ABQ Doctor Who Performs Third-Trimester Abortions 10 Shots Across the Border Steller: Coincidental Border Patrol Cases Test Justice System Jaylen Fryberg Is Not Your Indian Savage

Jump to bottom

4 comments

1 jvic  Thu, Jan 16, 2014 7:22:57pm

Thanks for posting this. I gather that things may be coming to a head in Turkey, but hadn’t heard much lately.

My main cause for concern is Erdogan’s old statement that Democracy is like a train. We shall get out when we arrive at the station we want. Another concern is that Turkey’s fundamentalist rural voters may turn the country back from modernity—-and search for scapegoats when the chickens come home to roost.

Good luck to the Turkish people.

2 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:38:10am
Another concern is that Turkey’s fundamentalist rural voters may turn the country back from modernity—-and search for scapegoats when the chickens come home to roost.

Good luck to the Turkish people.

Funny. I’m thinking this way:

A concern of mine is that America’s fundamentalist rural voters may turn the country back from modernity—-and search for scapegoats when the chickens come home to roost.

Good luck to the American people.

3 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:09:05am

re: #2 Rocky-in-Connecticut

Funny. I’m thinking this way:

A concern of mine is that America’s fundamentalist rural voters may turn the country back from modernity—-and search for scapegoats when the chickens come home to roost.

Good luck to the American people.

Fundamentalism is more prevalent in rural areas of Turkey than in the United States. The US government is also, despite all the DERP, still more responsive and far more honest than Erdogan’s government. That helps keep desire of radical change down. Turkey’s risk of successful fundamentalist revolt is a good deal higher than our own.

4 jvic  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:54:18am

re: #3 Dark_Falcon

DF, you’re a more patient man than I.

In the right environment, you’d be a superb teacher.


This page has been archived.
Comments are closed.

Jump to top

Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds

Help support Little Green Footballs!

Subscribe now for ad-free access!Register and sign in to a free LGF account before subscribing, and your ad-free access will be automatically enabled.

Donate with
PayPal Cash.app
Recent PagesClick to refresh
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ...
Cheechako
5 days ago
Views: 156 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ...
Cheechako
2 weeks ago
Views: 321 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1