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B. Oliver Sheppard bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net
Wed Oct 3 13:39:01 EDT 2007


When something bad happens, it redounds to a country's communism. A
famine sweeps over China in the 1930s and 1940s? Well, that's communism.
Not a natural disaster or anything else -- communism did it, or
catastrophically exacerbated it.

When Katrina and other shameful things happen in the US, though, is that
democracy, or capitalism? Why, no! That's just a fluke in an otherwise
pretty sterling system. Economic downturn in "communist" nation = caused
by communism. Economic downturn in Western country -- an anomaly, sure
to be cleared up soon once things retool.

Different standards for different places. Korea does something bad, it
redounds immediately to the fact they claim to be communist. Not to the
fact they say they're democratic (their official name is the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea, just as the US says it's a democratic
republic) -- but to the approved culprit, communism. Whether Korea
actually follows any communist tenets or not.

The US does something bad, it doesn't redound to its being a democratic
Republic. The script reads that the US may be flawed and imperfect, but
it's still awesomely noble in intent nonetheless, by gum. And you can
believe that when other nations intervene in others' affairs to avert
humanitarian catastrophes, like Vietnam invading Cambodia to put a stop
to the Khmer Rouge genocide in the 70s, that won't get much praise from
the US, either, because it's the wrong people being the heroes. They're
not sticking to the script, dammit!

-Oliver



GREG SLAWSON wrote:

> And, fascist North Korea also call themselves Communist, and Peter

> West probably believes it, but then again he's a brain-dead zombie




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