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Well after reading your "my argument is so week I have to wrap myself in the flag and say I'm a vietnam vet", "I don't know you or anything about you but you're not a conservative because I said so" post, the only relevant -- to the topic -- point I saw as the following...

To confuse the indoctrination of our youth by our enemies with freedom of speech is idiocy, to imagine that their intent is anything but subversion is ignorance of the basest sort, and, above all, to knowingly condone it is treason.

Note you still haven't provided any facts or background to your post, only name-calling and hysterical mumbo-jumbo that wasn't supported by the original post nor mine.

As a point of fact we are not in a pure capitalist society because pure capitalism produces abuses which society will not and can not tolerate such as monopolies, false advertizing, ecological devistation, and a host of other ills, which I pointed out have been addressed by every generation of americans since the country began. It's not anti-american to teach our children of the pitfalls of capitalism because there are pitfalls. Nothing that can't be overcome with a bit of sound legislation (like requiring truth in advertizing, regulating monopoly powers, requiring mining companies to restore the land when they're done with a property, etc, etc), but there are problems our children should be aware of.

That's not to say they should be taught capitalism is the root of all evils. As I said in my first post, America *IS* a a uniquely special country but we got there through honesty and hard work and not ignoring our problems. Now the soviets were quite good at indocrinating their kids they got the "very special country" bit and nothing else and look where that got them.

I agree with you on the part about making sure they know the pitfalls, but, speaking as the father of an 11 year-old in public school, little if any time is spent discussing how "special" America is. Most of the social studies time is devoted to talking about how bad we are, and how bad we treated everyone on our way to establishing the greatest country on the face of the earth. I help my daughter with her studies, and get a chance to read some of the textbooks, and I also drop in to class every once in a while. "America is special" isn't being taught.

And therein lies the problem...

Blah, blah, blah...whatever...

You think you are an intellectual but you are not: you are a liberal apologist. I will not waste anymre time on you, you are not worth it. End of discussion, please leave me alone.

O btw, I think that you mean "weak," not "week."