Another catch phrase:

“This discussion isn’t helping my kids.”

It’s hard to say what the average American pictures as a “Marxist”. The heavy -handed thuggery of Soviet Russia? The ant-like obedience of Communist China under Mao? The bombastic rhetoric of Fidel?

These were all primitive variations on a theme. But whenever the true Marxist appears, they usually promise utopia on earth, “progressive” economic reforms (aggressive wealth re-distribution), some variation on the fight agains ‘fascism’ (whatever the patriarchal authority stucture is at the given moment), “social justice” (my favorite; what is social justice?), and equal rights for all. Really? Equal rights for the people you just heavily taxed to pay off the left side of the economic bell-curve for voting you in? How do you impose “social justice” on people that don’t want it without messing with their “inalienable rights” ?

My children are impressed by Obama. He’s cool, hip and handsome. Me, not so much.