One of the things of which I am most ashamed is that, when I was in college in the 1960’s, I wore a Mao button, and a Che button. I also carried Mao’s little red book in my back pocket However, I fell asleep every time I tried to read it. I shouldn’t have fallen asleep. I should have so frightened by it that I should not have been able to sleep.
A “Viva Zapata” button was as far as I ever strayed, ten years later. I knew in college what a bunch of murdering bastards the Chinese and Russian Communists were, and I fell asleep trying to read Trotsky’s book on Stalin, one cold-hearted murdering bastard explaining why his opponent was a cold-hearted murdering bastard. I still have that book and have never been able to get past the first 20 or 30 pages. I am convinced that communism failed, in part, because its advocates were so damn boring. In addition to being morally bankrupt, they were intellectually bankrupt. I am waiting for Noam Chomsky to show me the Federalist Papers of the Soviet Union.
Don’t feel guilty. I used to give money to PETA, Greenpeace, Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and The Wilderness Society (or something like it), etc.
Boy have I changed. Now my money goes to the Republicans, Freep, FrontPage, etc.
We all make mistakes, learn and grow and hopefully wise up about reality and our own survival.
Daveinyork...you are forgiven.
You were just a young, arrogant dummy like most of us were at some point. It is like partying and drinking to excess.
Oh, wait...