international elections
So. Â Now that the Iranians have elected the “moderate” of the Cleric-approved candidates…
… either showing a difference between this moderate and the reformer who supposedly had an election stolen and brought on the Green Revolution of Protests– that one is not considered a threat to the ruling Clerical oligarchy and the other became such –, or showing that Ahmajenidad won after all…
Or… something going on in internal Iranian politics that is worth a deep Kremlinogolical study. Â He has a court summons. Â Interesting.
One of those three.
What’s the next international election whose dynamics are not wholly translatable and understandable to my “idiosyncratic and eccentric” American vantage point?  Well, take a look at the  Mayor of Moscow.
Well, it’s full of eccentric personalities, after we get past the “United Russia” Putin-head, and assorted Communist Party and controlled opposition figures. Â Without looking too far into him, I will just assume that this guy is the equivalent of our Vampire Candidate. Â Thought maybe I’m not giving him enough credit and he has some “Pussy Riot” political dissident qualities with him:
Thrash metal musician and member of the nationalist opposition; ran unsuccessfully for mayor of the Khimki and Zhukovsky districts of Moscow Oblast in 2012 and 2013.
Hm…