Reply #7: You think Bushites would learn a thing or two... [View All]

http://edstrong.blog-city.com/read/925284.htm

The Soviet Union had its religion. It was Marxism, and its adherents believed in the apocalyptical withering away of the state. In its place would emerge a workers’ utopia where no one worked more than forty hours and the profits of one’s labors filled one’s own pockets.

Similarly, the Bushites have their own rigid faith: an evangelical Christianity that wants to turn back the clocks to the Old Testament.

Just like the communists, they await a promised apocalypse. The end days are coming, they say, when the faithful will be beamed up to heaven and the rest of us will have to hang with Satan for a really long time.

Let’s add up what we have so far — one party rule; a bureaucracy that rewards loyalty over talent; the suppression of dissent; a rigid orthodoxy of belief; imperial ambitions; a war going badly in a Muslim country, make that two Muslim countries; a news media that can only echo the party line. Yup, sounds like the Soviet Union to me.
Does anyone remember what happened to the Soviet Union?