Posted on 09/07/2009 9:41:10 AM PDT by fiodora
I tend to think defending the original intent of the constitution is somewhat of a pathetic intellectual anachronism. Just call me pathetically intellectually anachronistic. The battle rages on, and both sides lose.
Communism will die when ignorance and foolishness die. Which is to say, never.
Wake up America.
And as soon as it died, they all came over here.
Duuuuuuuuuuuh! China.
WTF? Krauthammer OK with Commies in government? He’s a lost cause.
Andrew could teach Charles on this topic
“The Death of the Soviet Union Was Not the Death of Communism”
Bet you never hear that in the history classes at Harvard, Yale,
UCLA, etc.
Because the professors probably have the recurrent thought that
“Communism will work, it we just give it another chance and do it right”
Gorbachev commented in one of his speeches that communism is not dead. They consider the fall of the USSR to be a minor setback and time for readjustment.
This time... it's different. /s
Excellent article...the “collapse” of the Soviet Union has only made Communism stronger and more deadly.
“And as soon as it died, they all came over here.”
Yep. Just ask anyone that was in graduate schools (esp. the sciences)
in the decade or so after the fall of the USSR.
Fortunately most of the imports were more freedom/liberty loving
than many of our homegrown malcontents.
But there were a fair number that hadn’t outgrown the time period of
1917 to the dissolution of the USSR.
Communism is a parasitic ideology. It sucks the life out of its host, and then the host collapses. Soviet communism managed to survive a few decades longer through sucking on the human and material capital of its WW2 conquests, before finally being shown to be unable to compete.
Once the host collapses, the parasites must find new hosts. Like here.
“It should be apparent by now that Communism never died.”
It resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
“The Death of the Soviet Union Was Not the Death of Communism”
Well, no. 1.5 billion Chinese can attest to that. And soon will be adding another 300 million to that tally.
I can and do resist socialism. I can and do resist democrats (but i repeat myself.) But these are marginal. In the big picture, the very fact that we have these fights, decade after decade, proves that the Constitution has failed. It was a nice try, but a failure. The commerce clause, the necessary and proper clause, the general welfare clause, the failure to proscribe the means for a state to withdraw from the Union, the failure of the states to provide republican gubmint to ALL its people, etc etc etc. Total, unmitigated failure.
Still, even missing the mark so widely, it's a pretty livable system compared to the rest, and I do what I can to make it as much so as possible.
Readn a good insightful blip by someone I can’t recall.
He said that Iran didn’t fall because Iranians still harbor a belief in an overall Muslim theocracy and that the Soviet Union fell because there was its ideology, Communism, no longer had believers in the USSR in the 90s — the only believers were in American universities.
[“It should be apparent by now that Communism never died.”
It resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave] You’re right!! and Andy’s article summarize it perfectly!
“Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left...”
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