Juan Cole is not happy:
Informed Comment
I have concluded that Americans, who pretend in public to be straightlaced, are in fact rabid masochists addicted to whips, black leather and the application of fists. It turns out that large numbers of people throughout the world are accidentally asphyxiated every year because they need to be choked for maximum pleasure.The diagnosis of national masochism is the only thing that can satisfactorily explain the poll numbers in the presidential race.
