On 10-Oct-08, at 4:28 PM, Francis Drouillard wrote: > <http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/ > why_obamas_communist_connectio.html> > > "I have seen for quite some time that although we won the Cold War -- > and defeated the Soviet communist empire -- America is vulnerable to > varying degrees of collectivism, wealth redistribution, "creeping > socialism" (Ronald Reagan's phrase), class-warfare rhetoric, and > generally milder, more palatable (but still dangerous) forms of > disguised Marxism. Why? How? The answer is simple: The history and > truth about communism is not taught by our educators." > > The author makes some other astute observations about leftists and > conservatives and their respective views on communism and fascism.
-- The article you posted is really about communism, and by extension, military dictatorships. Plenty of countries seem to be able to run their health care systems without seeing the need to round up all the Jews. I'm pretty sure communists eat bread, but I don't see causality between bread and communism. Despite promoting that ridiculous link, the article made absolutely no salient points about how evil any specific social program was, simply that anything associated with communism in any way is evil. Of course that's McCarthyism. Isn't this just fear-mongering, which is really the trademark of the republicans and conservatism of late? Fear of change, fear of the unknown, fear of terrorist boogeymen, fear of an educated black man in office? Not everyone who talks to a communist or communist sympathizer becomes a communist. If that were the case, wouldn't John McCain want to run the country like Vietnam? Some sensible characterization of those meetings is in order. Plenty of Republicans worked with Bill Ayers as well. -- Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
