No, I haven't lost it. I've only seen the headline in a national newspaper that happens to bear the same name as the country, which informed us that a member of the Austrian People's Party...
Okay, hold on there. For those of you that think People's here is the same as in a People's Republic (possibly because they actually listened to some of the dross the Governator spouted back in '04), let me set this straight.
The Austrian People's Party, or indiginously Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP), is a Christian social-democratic party, which means they uphold Christian values by taking from the poor and giving to the rich, social standards by securing their pensions at the expense of everyone else's income and pension, and the spirit of democracy by doing whatever the hell it takes to get into and stay in power - up to and including installing a regime in the early 1930s that was scant better than the Nazis that followed. Sort of like Republicans basically, just less gung-ho.
Anyways, back to the headline, which informed me that the first fatality of this year's influenza epidemic was an ÖVP politician. If the virus could hit a few more of them, there might yet be hope for actual social, democratic, and possibly even Christian values. Definitely shaping up to be a good flu!
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