House of Cards Cannot Compare to Reality

With some talking down the third season of Netflix's House of Cards, one can always read through the newspaper to find similar political intrigue around the globe.  For instance, the suspicious suicide of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was investigating the government's possible involvement in a bombing, has become the story to follow in Latin America.  Some have already equated it to House of Cards.   And we know how "suicides" just seemed to happen to people associated with Frank Underwood. 

But nothing can beat the Russians when it comes to strong-arm politics and mysterious murders.  Sadly, we saw this again with the murder last month of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down just outside the Kremlin.  Mr. Nemtsov's daughter stated she believed President Putin was behind the murder, as quoted in the Guardian newspaper, stating,  “I don’t have evidence but politically he is responsible.”

While most of us can content ourselves that television is simply spinning a tale, some are living under governments where politics is still a blood sport and life is cheap.  Let's just hope Frank Underwood and his real life fellow thugs get what's coming to them.