Walter Hinteler wrote:Well, might be that your translation is correct. But did you talk about the politics of the Socialist Party of the United States (SPUSA), the Communist Party of the U.S. (CPUSA), or the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) before? I must have missed that.
No, I didn't talk about it. I think there are lots more organizations now that are advocating socialist and communist causes here, but they simply don't use the words describing it. The words, "socialism" and "communism" are not popular words here, so their proponents have learned to use other organizations in which to further their causes in an incremental fashion. This comment could rile lots of people, but it is my opinion that the current Democratic Party has leaders that subscribed to socialist, communist, and marxist philosophies in their college years, and I think there is not much evidence they have shed those former ideas altogether. They of course will not admit anything or come out of the closet with their entire agenda now, but many of their ideas bear resemblance to their former self.
The citizenry is mostly fairly naive when it comes to recognizing the root philosophies of politicians, and many will simply vote for something if they think it benefits them personally. If you want an example of this, simply listen to Hannity's man on the street segment he runs on Friday's radio show, where he has a person go down on the street and ask randomly picked people who the vice president is, etc. If they are Democrat voters, most don't even know who Dick Cheney is or who Secretary Rice is, but they all hate Bush. If they are asked why, the answers run the gamut but are rarely founded in much knowledge of any kind. Once in a while, someone will know who they are, and almost always they turn out to be a Republican voter.
I was around students in college back in the 60's that belonged to SDS. Basicly, I think for most of them it was more or less an expression of rebellion more than it was of buying into the beliefs of the organization. It was kind of trendy for certain personality types and it afforded them the use of drugs and partying with the organization soothing their conscience of doing it. It gave them a vague sense purpose or excuse for their degenerate methods of fun. For others of that movement, they truly bought into the philosophy, and as I've said before, some are now politicians seeking to further the cause.
