On 17-10-2011 16:14, Invisible wrote:
>>> What I /have/ noticed about the USA is that they tend to assert that
>>> their way of life is the only /correct/ one.
>>
>> Yep. There are definitely people who think that way.
>
> There's probably people like that everywhere. It's just that, for
> whatever reason, this seems to be more prominent in the USA.
>
> [I deliberately use the term "USA" rather than "America" because
> strictly speaking the latter is two entire continents comprising
> multiple countries... I believe the Arrogant Worms make a lengthy song
> about this exact matter...]
>
>> If a new concept
>> comes around, and we haven't done that in the past, and it involves
>> making life better for people, it immediately gets called Socialism
>> and/or Communism.
>
> Yeah. Because Communism is completely evil, right? RIGHT??
>
> Um... I still haven't figured out *why* it's evil, but apparently it is.

Because the leaders of the communist revolution did not respect the 
properties and privileges of the rich. Besides they also did not think 
rich politically dominant churches were a good idea, hence it was 
written in the bible that the communists were evil.

OK in most cases the communists turned out to be evil, but when the 
propaganda began they had no way of knowing that. Besides they were evil 
in almost the same way as capitalists. Who was more evil: Stalin or 
Hitler, Brezhnev or Videla, Batista or Castro? And when? When they were 
in power or only in hindsight?

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