"increasingly fashionible"? Among who? The lunatic left fringe that Engels inhabits? This guy needs to get out more. His loose collection of insults and rants is Lewis Carrol stuff. Pay no attention to facts, I'll tell you what to think.........The Euro left's embrace of the old USSR endures long after it's death. His only theme is that democracy is a failure, his proof? Why that the public involved doesn't listen to him and his friends, and votes on principles of their own. Bad, bad voters,........Matthew doesn't approve, report to the nearest gulag at once.