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[Neuromancer]

Re: eris: crumedgeons, antisemites, racist, etc.

Communism doesn't really threaten democracy - not by definition. It threatens profits.

Um... no.

Any new political system threatens only one thing, those in power under the old system.

So American youth are trained to want to destroy all communism

ROTFL. With nano-second attention spans and an education system that largely consists of hanging out at the mall this does't seem much like a very formidable army. Unless you want to count all that mall time as "capitalist indoctrination", I'd have to say that exactly the opposite is true.

Young students today are taught that trees and wild animals are good and big companies are bad. Ask any ten high school graduates in my state who was President during the Civil War and sixty percent of them will give you answers like George Washington or Martin Luther King. Ask the same group the words to the latest Marlyn Manson ditty and you are likely to get a verbatim rendition from all ten.

One simply cannot train the untrainable.

I believe what will end these situations is a tremendous cultural/social mindset shift, not a political one.

Incidentally, the nutcase-religious right has exactly the same mantra.

(Which would result in most of the top offices in the US government not being occupied by corporate interests...)

Yeah, right. That along with a double order of thermal underwear to help protect the inhabitants of Hades from getting a chill.