At this late date it startles me when apparently intelligent, supposedly moral, individuals continue to publicly identify themselves as - of all things - communists. Couldn't they choose something less offensive, like identifying as Klan members or pederasts?
After all, when Communists take hold of the reigns of power with rare exception they equal or exceed the worst excesses of most any other form of government you care to examine.
The sort of folks attracted to public leadership tend to range from the elitist (believing, rightly or wrongly, that if the "right folks" were in charge, thing would be ever so much more splendid - and that they are, of course, the "right folks") to the criminal. And often the criminal is cheaper and less harmful, and not terribly rarely, more honest about his/her agenda.
People are flawed, and allowing them near the levers of power doesn't magically make them less flawed. Checks and balances were invented to balance this regrettable fact out, as best as possible. Even more regrettable, letting folks with the stated goal of achieving whole new levels of intrusiveness and authoriteh near the levers of power is never, ever, a good notion - they are precisely who a nation interested in freedom needs to keep far, far, away from higher office than dog-catcher.
Grr.
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