[Bender2]

Re: Apparently, you've bought into that nonsense.

No, Fred, I lived it in the 1950s but it is very evident you and I had two very different lives and I pity you for the one you have gone through to have the terribly distorted view of the United States you see.

I can see there is not any further need to discuss this with you as your committed dogma that must have fueled your Liberal/Communist Period and then raised its ugly head in another direction again appears to have set into the hard stone of a closed heart and locked mind.

My sorrow and compassion goes out to you for your apparent regret, anger and disappointment in the upbringing you had--

I shall not argue nor reply with you any more, it would be a complete waste of time and effort.

Goodbye and God Bless.

[big'ol_freeper]

I almost always prefer the original

[FredZarguna]

Actually, I always had a beautiful view of the United States of America, and my early liberalism was motivated by a desire to make it a better place. When I realized that leftists politics weren't about that at all, I had to abandon them because of my belief in our way of life.

You, on the other hand, have been sleepwalking through history, so unaware of how thoroughly brainwashed you are that you believe that a deeply anti-American film is just harmless entertainment. Go back and listen to Klaatu's cautionary departure speech in the context of the 1950's "red scare" to understand just how deeply--and disgustingly--propagandistic it is. As for your sympathy, you should save it for yourself. As thoroughly unexamined a philosophy as you apparently possess is genuinely to be pitied.

No doubt you think Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov were visionary science fiction writers of completely neutral political positions as well. In that case, I hate to break this news to you...