[Buddha-l] Political views of Buddhists

[curt]

Richard Hayes wrote:
> NW (authoritarian communist): Pope Benedict, Stalin, Kim Jongil, Fidel Castro, 
> Pol Pot, Robert Mugabe and Hugo Chavez.
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Hugo Chavez has more popular support than any current leader of any 
nation in Europe, North American, Australia or New Zealand (for some 
reason, white people and the nations they control are always assumed to 
be the standard by which "democracy" must be measured.)

Chavez' popular support can be measured objectively and directly by the 
number of people who vote for him and the number of times he has been 
elected to office.

By placing Chavez in the same category as Stalin, the Pope and Kim 
Jongil, are you trying to suggest that this new system is just as 
meaningless as the old "left-right" dichotomy?

As Oscar Wilde pointed out long ago, the only "measurement" that really 
counts is who would you want to hang out with at a party?

- Curt