Charles and PW – the most amusing irony is that the folks around here who cling to “optimism” in the face of reality seem to already have forgotten about another ideological program that was sweetness and light in theory but came up awfully short in practice, with disastrous consequences for the people whose lives were supposed to be made better.

Wow, one really needs to be a reactionary miscreant to seriously attempt to make a case of equivalence between communism and democracy, despite the former’s near-universal failing, and the latter’s respectable and centuries-spanning track record. Do you honestly believe that nonsense you wrote there or are you just trolling for attention by being as outrageous and over-the-top as possible? I’m wondering, seriously.

Trust me, I haven’t forgotten about communism. I happened to get to experience it first-hand, and I’ll take democracy over it and any other totalitarian system any day, no matter the imperfections that any democratic system will obviously have. Apparently, you’re more into the notion of “stability” that already worked so well for Kerry and the Democrats two months ago.