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Using the Hegelian Dialectic as a frame of reference, Soviet communism was the antithesis of the American free-market economy which was rightly perceived as the greatest threat to establishing a single all-powerful global government. Out of this thesis-antithesis, the hoped for synthesis, socialism, would rise somewhere, probably even geographically, in the middle.

Those who govern world events were horrified the synthesis they got was overtly nationalist with a racialist component. Such an ideology would never usher in the new global order they desired. However, it did provide a reason for war on a scale never before seen that could provide a demand for post-war institutions and organizations that would usher in that global order.

Considering the last go-around, I find it interesting that in its present form, European socialism is once again a German enterprise and it's being permitted. Or is it?

I think I understand why Turkey and now Syria and other Moslem peoples are being encouraged to invade Europe and replace its aging and atrophied population. Perhaps the new caliphate is the global one-world government those who direct world events will accept believing it can be "secularized" in the future. These enemies of human freedom think in terms of centuries so an Islamic planet for a millennium is acceptable trusting that one day it will be atheistic.

/tin foil hat

[Oratam]

I don't know why a thread about the 1972 presidential election prompted me to post what I did.

The causes of WW2 and the seemingly incongruous post-war period have troubled me for some time. Perhaps a discussion touching on the overtly communist direction of a major American political party was the trigger.

I could just as well have made the correlation between fighting communism in Vietnam and the Dems succumbing to Helsinki Syndrome and used post-911 America as a recent example of this phenomenon on a nationwide scale.