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An ultra-leftist in our office absolutely believes the mortgage mess was entirely caused by the evil capitalist corporations. No explanation of how faulty legislation, lousy public policy, and easy money after the tech-wreck caused this mess could ever dissuade her. In her simplistic, sophomoric world —>
BUSINESS = EVIL, BAD
GOVERNMENT = WONDERFUL, GOOD, DO NO WRONG

The funny thing is she’s not a starry-eyed young utopian, but a senior citizen.

I’d love for her to spend a year in the monolithic, all-grey, stifling public housing common in all communist countries. Maybe then she’d change her tune.

I’d love for her to spend a year in the monolithic, all-grey, stifling public housing common in all communist countries. Maybe then she’d change her tune.

Maybe what she's trying to articulate is a recognition that corporatism and communism, these days, are two sides of the same coin?

The word "Corporate" means a group of people acting as a single collective body.

Within the corporatist/communist environment, individual, inalienable rights are subservient to the worship and benefit of the collective.

"ProtectOurFreedom"

Interesting screen name. Who's protecting the 1st amendment in the corporatist/communist hive these days?

God is rejected from within the contemporary corporate environment, even in America.

The object of worship in that environment is the corporate structure itself. Exactly the same as in the communist state - where the state is god. In Biblical terms, it is the worship of Baal.

Ex 32:2-4

2 Aaron answered them, "Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me." 3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, "These are your gods , O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."

Isn't Secular humanism wonderful?

Don’t you realize, businesses are bad because they can be. All of the welfare office bureaucrats are so saintly nobody does a documentary on them and you don’t even hear a peep about scandal there. But businesses are bad because they can be and they have eeeeeeevil people at the top who punish the toiling workers in their cubicles.(sarc.)

I thought that Liberals all saw things in shades of grey?

These are the same people who, when faced with oppression and persecution from what they call a big government want a bigger government because it can “change their lives”. The same people who would take John Lee Anderson’s book on Che narrated by Fidel Castro to heart, but nobody from the Bush Administration will write a book detailing how fantastic Bush is will get the same credibility. The same people who constantly chant about having a revolution to overthrow the government(something that I actually heard in the pool a few hours ago) yet they believe that everybody is like them and will agree to the same kinds of “revolutionary” aspects.

(Bozo your revolution begat the 70s and all of the screwy stuff that happened then)

It takes a lot of hypocrisy, cognitive dissonance and gullibility, along with arrogance to be a Liberal. Even a family friend has fallen prey to the easy thinking of the Left.