Reply #5: "A communist from Northern California"?

[Peace Patriot]

:rofl:

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"Unlike you, who happen to be a communist from Northern California, I happen to have seen the aftermath of nationalization in Latin America."

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Now, now, "protocol rv," we know you've seen it all, and know it all, and we should all be silenced by your vast knowledge of everything in Latin America, but really, I didn't know that you check up on the party registrations of American DUers with whom you disagree. Care to document my membership in the Communist Party USA?

I am not a "communist," "protocol rv," although I believe in cooperation and social decency. I am in fact a great believer in "the marketplace"--that is, a REAL marketplace, not this monopolistic, predatory capitalist monster we are seeing today. I think Cuba has a great health care system which should be imitated everywhere. NO ONE should be permitted to profit from illness. That's a great idea that the Cubans have implemented. This doesn't make me a "communist." And I am very much a "New Dealer"--for strong regulation of the rich and the powerful, to benefit the poor and society in general. Beyond these things, I wouldn't want to stifle creativity or ingenuity or, as you say, "efficiency"--although I do think "efficiency" is way over-sold, and that, for instance, the high speed computers that just crashed the stock market, or the "efficiency" of private, corporate, 'TRADE SECRET' vote counting, are very, very, very wrong and should be banned. Better a slow market than a dead one. Better a nice, slow, VISIBLE vote count, than Karl Rove and Diebold stealing elections--and countries.

Business, yes. Enterprise, yes. NO monopolies. NO corporate moguls destroying our country. Society and the dignity and rights of every human being COME FIRST and business must serve those things, or be banned--and/or taken over, and/or strongly regulated.

You seem to equate social responsibility and a desire for social justice and decency, and for a balance within society of caring for the weak, preventing the strong from harming the weak, and providing a decent life for all, with "communism." You need to examine that view. It is very wrong. You have completely misunderstood me and mischaracterized me.