{"id":960,"date":"2015-09-08T08:13:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=960"},"modified":"2015-09-08T08:13:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:13:02","slug":"bad-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Bad Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Lib\u00e9ratiion this morning, a little piece at the bottom of the page dealing with a change in government in Guatemala<\/a>, where an imposed president operating for the benefit of mining interests and American capital was forced to resign and has been charged with corruption and who-knows-what-else. The article points out (bemoans?) that an actor is in line to take up the presidential functions, as if this were a novel experience, and not necessarily a step toward constructive government, but the precedents are manifold and instructive.<\/p>\n

Ronald Reagan comes to mind straight away, a man who was, in a former life, something of a Bad Actor, but whose greatest role was the impersonation of a representative of the people of the USA. \u00a0In the intervening years, we’ve had a succession of similarly bad actors, Bush I., Clinton, Bush II, Obama and a whole list of clowns lined up to take over the title, who eschewed the thespian training, but got the role nonetheless.<\/p>\n

So for those afraid for the future of Guatemala, take heart. Unlike RR and the rest of the presidential bad actors, there’s a good chance that any clown in the hot seat in Guatemala is unlikely to get the chance to serve out a full term, let along erect the state structure that would benefit the general populace of that tortured land.
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