"Now when you go to look for your left -- when you need them most -- they are nowhere to be found," says Michael Moore in the introduction to the U.K. version of his new book, "Dude, Where's My Country."
America-bashing by an American cannot get much more superb than the works of this author/performer/film-maker of "Stupid White Men" and "Bowling for Columbine" fame.
Moore is talking about Tony Blair's New Labour when he laments the total eclipse of the left, but for a moment as I came across those words, I thought he had suddenly started commenting on Japan.