Heads you win. Tails I lose.

I've written before about Abe Shinzo. I think it's pretty clear I despise the guy. So I was all glad today, to hear that he has finally resigned as Prime Minister. Hurray! I thought. An end to his nasty little right-wing nationalist agenda! And then I read this and other articles and it seems like Aso Taro is his likely successor. So we are back to square one then really, aren't we? Remember that story about Hercules battling the nine-headed Hydra? He'd chop off one head and instantly another one would grow back in it's place? The Prime Minister is just a name and a figure-head. He goes. Another one pops up in his place. But the idea is the same. It's a very bad idea and it worries me. A lot.

And also remember that Abe didn't go because his nationalist right-wingedness was abhorrent. Nobody here cares about that. Abe was incompetent on domestic policy. What if the next guy does everything right domestically but...