Well this is rather weird
The New York Times brings this unexpected news which, assuming the reference is to be taken literally, is rather weird:
In Myanmar, a Former General Repents
… Mr. Shwe Mann, once the third-most powerful man in the country’s military dictatorship … has exchanged trench warfare and the bunkered mentality of a xenophobic junta for a personal library full of titles like “101 Ways to Win an Election” and “How Successful People Think.”
If Ed Maxfield and I produce a third edition of 101 Ways To Win An Election, I don’t think I’ll be approaching him for an endorsement.
Shwe Mann!? A well known Scottish term spat out from a drunken Scot Somebody has got their wires crossed!!1 LoL
Hmm, I must have missed the chapter in 101 Ways.. on the use of electric shocks…
Quite. Sending in the army to remove ballot boxes or deter opposition voters, making the electoral commission declare you the winner at gunpoint, stuffing the boxes with fake votes – all of these are perfectly good ways of winning an electrion and ALDC has briefings on them.
Oddly Hitler’s table talk recorded by a secretary concentrates very accurately on ‘How to to win elections’. He sets out ruthlessly the tactics of the populist right. ‘If you tell a lie, tell a big one.’
Mark, this could be the start of a beautiful relationship; opportunity to reach out and bring Liberal Democrat values to Myanmar!