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Originally Posted by LostCause
I think we went wrong when America became involved in the cold war.
Commie bad...Money good. oogah oogah.
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It would be a serious mistake to believe that the whole situation was only about money. If the west did not oppose the Soviets during the cold war, we
would be communist. Do you think we'd even be able to be on such a board as this and/or be able to have this discussion if this were a communist country?
Do you think that the "haves" in the US are too disproportionately wealthy? Try a comparison of the Politburo in the Soviet Union to the Russian people. While you're at it, check out Kazakhstan and other former-Soviet states.
Do you think US corporations are the worst things to happen to the environment? Try a comparison with all the ecologically dead rivers in Eastern Europe and communist/formerly-communist countries where the needs of the state trumped everything else. Hey, all those
rusting hulks of Soviet nuclear-powered navy vessels contaminating the seas are really great. Communism did a great job with the
Aral Sea, too, didn't it?
Do you think Bush "stole" the election from Gore? Try a comparison with the electoral "system" in communist countries.
Have you ever read "
The Gulag Archipelago?"
Sorry to seem so strident, but your flippant "
Commie bad...Money good. oogah oogah" really set me off.