Monday, December 28, 2009

You can’t beat good political drama.  The Nuremberg rallies with all those glistening uniforms and snappy torch light marches.  The May Day Parades with the Soviet gerontocracy standing on Lenin’s tomb smiling at the grandchildren of the people they tortured riding on their shiny tanks and missile launchers.  Even little North Korea stages some pretty impressive mass birthday parties for the Glorious Midget.  We may disagree with everything these totalitarian nightmare regimes stand for.  We may abhor their gangster tactics and hellish fantasies about conquering the world but you have to give them credit for knowing how to wow the crowd.  They know how to stage a scene and then walk on as the Luke Skywalker of megalomania, wave to the great unwashed return to their castle of doom and continue living life large like Dr. No or in Kim Jong-II’ s case Mini-Me.