“For a hint of how frightening election results can be, take a look at Brazil, where Luiz Inacio ‘Lula' da Silva swept to a landslide victory on Oct. 27. Lula, as he is known, is a former metal worker who had previously run for President of Brazil three times and been soundly defeated. But his left-wing Worker's Party won over 61% of the vote in the recent election, triggering fears that Lula will implement the ideas he has espoused during his political career. Most worrisome is Lula's identification with anti-free market and anti-globalization policies of American fringe figure and convicted felon Lyndon LaRouche. A cursory Google [Internet] search revealed page after page of links to stories associating Lula with Lyndon LaRouche. A German story even speculated that Lula would appoint Lyndon LaRouche as his new Finance Minister. This is unlikely. But the fact that LaRouche's anti-market, anti-trade and anti-investor tirades are given any hearing or credibility by the leader of the world's fourth largest democracy shows that any country could be no more than a show of hands away from raving lunacy at the helm.”

Davidson then went into the usual ADL/Roy Cohn smear of LaRouche, from his Trotskyite background, to his joining the Democratic Party, and all the rubbish about anti-Semitism, “Israel a zombie state” run from London, the Queen pushing dope, etc. (For more information about the source of slanders about LaRouche, read "Who's Telling Lies About Lyndon LaRouche?".)

He then resumed the rug-chewing: “It is as yet unclear how many of LaRouche's views Lula shares, or how deeply he is committed to pursuing them. But the specter of havoc that hangs over Brazil is only a more extreme manifestation of the logic of politics as encompassed by Mencken. ‘The advance auction of stolen goods' was too tempting for millions of impoverished Brazilians to resist. The income distribution in Brazil, while one of the most lopsided in the world, has substantially narrowed in the past 40 years. By contrast, the U.S. income distribution is one of the more lopsided among the advanced economies, by some measures, almost as lopsided as that in Brazil. It has substantially widened in the past 40 years. The United States is becoming even more vulnerable to demagogic appeals to ‘soak the rich' for this very reason. But this doesn't mean that the Democrats, much less Lyndon LaRouche, are necessarily going to gain an immediate purchase with their pandering to economic insecurity.” Obviously, the London Times Thatcherite/neo-cons are beginning to worry that LaRouche, in the United States, could repeat the Lula experience of turning a string of past electoral defeats into a stunning upset victory. 

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