Reply #21: As Shakespere said, Every fair , from fair sometimes decline. [View All]

[amber dog democrat]

I can only imagine the disappointment and frustration some people in China and the former USSR feel regarding the move away from state socialism and the Marxist tennents. Its kind of like betraying the ideals the previous generations fought for - even though we know enough about Stalin and Mao to not buy too deeply into the PR.

Even Jefferson Davis was said to have reflected on the Confederacy - that if it were to have a tomb stone, the inscription might read, " Died of a Theory " .

I suppose we have a myth of a system of government that defends and encompasses certain positive assumptions about human rights and freedoms. Every now and its held to account for inherrent contradictions in behavior and motive. I still feel that to the extent the citizens are generally informed and educated, there are some limits on the abuse of power... so far. We just have not encountered our Julius Caeser yet. - but remember how he ended up, not that it brought back the Republic.