Bfgrn
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An argument Capitalism vrs Communism is a morons retreat.
Everyone that can read and has a memory more evolved than a fruit fly knows communism doesnot work in groups of more than a hundred or so.
Equally most know that captalism is preditory and consumes everything availed to it to the detriment of all who are not a part of the ownership or employ of the companies or corporations that survive by gobbling up everything else.
The truth is that they both fail in their purest forms.
Communism by the weight of trying to provide for all need......
Capitalism by consuming all resource and concentrating all power and wealthin the hands of a very few.
Pure Capitalism is every bit as vile and wrong as pure communism.
I agree Huggy, that's exactly why I say that I have witnessed 2 failed revolutions of ideology in my lifetime, the Bolshevik Revolution and the Reagan Revolution. Both failed miserably.
You witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution?
I'm old, but not that old. I did witness last 40 years of the Soviet Union.
Actually Frank, a very interesting parallel to the 'Tea Party" occurred in Russia in the late 1980's. Russian conservatives, the Stalinists, wanted their country back. It was an alliance including xenophobic fringe groups and nationalists who yearned for what they saw as the simple values of Old Russia and the Orthodox church. They wanted their authoritarian government back.
What polls show us about the teabaggers is that they too are a fringe group. Among all Americans, George W. Bush has a 27/58 positive/negative favorable rating. Among teabaggers he's viewed favorably, 57/27.
The teabaggers want THEIR authoritarian government back too...Bush & Cheney.