[Eastbound]

"Genuine choice implies that one's personal favorite options might not be chosen by other people in elections and public policy debates. Consequently---just eliminate the problem by eliminating choice. At first, it's just rhetorical elimination (in debates such as exchanges on FR) but let us all beware...if Eastbound and others who share his/her views prevail, all of us will live by a different definition of what constitutes Americanism."

I really hate to be mis-characterized. My view of Americanism was clearly stated above. I and others who share that view will be the only ones standing after the final battle against those who would trade our Republic for a bowl of porridge. Count on it.

Thank you for outing yourself. Saves me the trouble.

[Ernie.cal]

Eastbound:

Don't understand why you think I have mis-characterized your position and you don't explain.

See your posts, as follows:

#15 = you state there is no difference between Communists, socialists, liberals, Democrats.

This contradicts not only the historical record which I mentioned in a previous message (socialists despised the Soviet Union) but also contradicts what J. Edgar Hoover repeatedly said and wrote, and it also contradicts reports by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, HUAC, and numerous conservative scholars and authors.

Making intelligent distinctions is one way we separate rational from irrational thought. You seem to want lowest-common-denominator reasoning --- the same obnoxious logic employed by all enemies of freedom who don't want to make careful distinctions (moral and practical) about human behavior.

#28 = you confirm that Americans have only "a single option" -- which, apparently, is whatever your personal political preferences are.