Bury your head in the sand? Very, very deep in the sand?

Learn to speak Portuguese, Hindi, and Chinese? For when they begin to buy up the remnants of our nation?

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There are intelligent ideas and assertions that can be expressed from liberal points of view and from conservative points of view.

Unfortunately, conservative and intelligent is an oxymoron at worldmagblog most of the time.

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Easy. We like puppy dogs.

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Most of the ugly things you mention– the rapid expansion of the federal government, the government bailing out private corporations with public money, and the rapid accumulation of public debt (much of which is owed to China) rapidly accelerated under Bush and Obama only continued the trend. I have no great love for either President and their policies. I was merely making the point that it’s pretty commonplace for any opposition party to bemoan the ignorance of the country for voting in a leader who will lead us all to our Zimbabwe-esque downfall. Saying such things and using “marxist” pejoratively may make you feel better about opposing the leader that you think is doing the wrong things, but I don’t feel like it really contributes to anything besides stirring up a frenzy among the believers. There will always be someone we disagree with in power doing something terrible. We can rant and rave about it, or we can suggest a convincing and useful solution that meets the needs of the people.

Ask yourself: When Bush was re-elected and the liberals were engaging in all sorts of weeping and gnashing of teeth about our de-educated populace that allowed our former President to carry out his plan to take us down the road of militaristic fundamentalist fascism, do you feel like that contributed to a thoughtful political discourse? If not, it probably doesn’t help when conservatives do it, either.

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How do you live in a soceity which is culturally and financially imploding? My entire life I’ve lived in a growing economy where opportunity was always around the corner. It doesn’t feel that way to me now; it feels like choices are narrowing and limiting rather than expanding. Has there been a time in history like this? And what can we learn?

I don’t know the answer, but I’ve been thinking about 1917 Russia–the overthrow of the government (which obviously did NOT happen here), but a severe change in society where life for many came to a complete halt as the system broke down. When it was put back in order, it got even messier for many, while things improved for some. Even the peasants–for whom the “revolution” claimed to fight– were only marginally better off by the mid-1920s, and then the kulaks, of course (basically anyone who owned anything) were starved to death in the Ukraine.

This is not a good analogy, but can anyone come up with an historical parallel I can think about?

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The government now owns greater than 50% of General Motors. Calling this “marxist” isn’t just “the exact same rhetoric.” The national debt is now over $500,000 per person. Much of it is owed to China. These are the facts. Can any hyperbole sound worse than the truth already sounds?

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