Turkey On Riot

Remember how Turkey was going to be the Western, secular vanguard in the Muslim world.  How's that working out for you?  Turkey was going to enjoy all the fruits of democracy: free markets; representative government; civil rights; surveillance; debt; oligarchy; collapsing standards of living.  Oops.  It seems the Sons of the Turk have hit a little speed bump.  Turkey has run into a bit of a problem: the economy was doing well, but the president of Turkey decided to shit in the punch bowl by appeasing and promoting the fundamentalist religious elements of his society.  This should be familiar to all Americans.  This shit in Turkey is the same shit that happened when Reagan got on his knees to very publicly suck the cocks of the Christian fundie assholes in 1981; ever since then the United States has gotten worse each and every year as the political establishment enables the dumbest bunnies we have and science, logic, reason, and economics have been undermined by ignorance and superstition.  The big difference is that the United States is a big, rich, powerful country with a good amount of history, and not a barely functional emerging, recently third-world nation.  It's been almost two generations here; it happened much quicker in Turkey.