Reply #53: Ludicrous. [View All]

[Donald Ian Rankin]

You may think corporate capitalism is evil and unprogressive, but to suggest that it's the *most* evil, unprogressive force in a world containing communist countries, military dictatorships, Islamic theocracies, countries run by warlords, etc, or that opposition to it is ipse facto good, just makes you look foolish.

To criticise the US for being undemocratic while saying you prefer Castro in the same sentence isn't *quite* self-contradictory - it could be that you prefer Castro even though Cuba is far less democratic that the US (i.e the US is certainly one of the thirty healthiest democracies in the world today, and probably in the higher end of that by many measures; Cuba is a dictatorship), but it's pretty close and certainly doesn't increase my respect for your judgement one whit.

And it's you, not me, who's following - and blindly following, judging by your post - an increasingly (not yet very, but slowly but surely growingly so) authoritarian ruler.