Purge II
The ‘purge’ movement — going global:
When the political world arrives at the point where even the Japanese rise up to toss a party from office after almost 54 years in power, it’s time to see something’s happening here, Mr. Jones.
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The vote in somnolent Japan suggests that electorates are casting a global no-confidence vote in their leaderships. The same weekend the Japanese unloaded the Liberal Democratic Party, German voters withdrew Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling majorities in the state legislatures of Thuringia and Saarland.
In the U.S., political handicappers are predicting heavy Democratic losses in the House next November. This just four years after ending GOP control of Congress in the 2006 elections and two years after sweeping into office Barack Obama and his Democratic partners.
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