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10. A coworker was talking about the 'communist' society of 'The Hunger Games'...
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 04:07 PM
Mar 2012

and how the US could become just like that under Obama. She quickly changed the subject when I pointed out that it was rather right wing plutocracy what occurred in the story than communism. I asked her to further describe the system of the story and told her (after listening to what appeared to be her idea of socialism) that to me it sounded more like a sort of social Darwinism and extreme competition existed. That ironically those systems were favored predominantly by far right wing systems, like Facism. You should have seen her expression when I mentioned right wing and Facism in the same sentence. Priceless!

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