I am wondering if the person who posted this was a neo-con trying to label us as communists. I think that what citizens of China and the former Soviet Union went through is what we are starting to deal with here. The neo-cons are the true commies! No free speech! Wiretapping and spying! Torture! One religion! Stealing elections! No Habeaus Corpus! Bad enviromental policies! Etc.!!! Please!
Do you even know what communism is. It is the far left of the left-right political system. (like the far far almost silly left) The Republicans are on the far right. I agree, Bush has alot of things incomon with Stalin, but he's not a communist. (I mean Bush, not Stalin, he was a total commie) Also, the 'One religion' thing. Most communists are atheists. And it is possible to be a liberal communist.
Funny, they do all of those things and then call everyone else a commie. If I didn't know any better, I would say that sounds an awful lot like hypocrisy. But that can't be...neo-cons aren't hypocrites. And neither is Ted Hagart or Larry Craig or Jeff Guckert or Mark Foley or Fat-Ass Limbough or Bill "Falafel" O'Reilly or any of the countless Republican liars out there.
I am wondering if the person who posted this was a neo-con trying to label us as communists. I think that what citizens of China and the former Soviet Union went through is what we are starting to deal with here. The neo-cons are the true commies! No free speech! Wiretapping and spying! Torture! One religion! Stealing elections! No Habeaus Corpus! Bad enviromental policies! Etc.!!! Please!
I don't think that that's necessarily something we should be pulling for.
History has shown us that competition and struggle are so intimately ingrained in our genetic predespositions that a society predicated on communism is fundamentally flawed. I don't doubt that, were we not the species we are, Communism could work.
Time and time again, we've been shown that the communist system creates an oligarchy far and away more oppressive than the class struggles and social inequalities it sought to rectify.
Liberty isn't procured by making everyone equal; doing so merely sits layabouts and wise men at the same table, dressing them in the same clothes.
Liberty is better served by minimizing the restrictions on people, allowing them to live their lives and persue their ends and goals in the manner they see fit.
Capitalism may not be the solution for liberty's woes. But Communism is not a gem either.
