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Or shall I say "How do Americans feel" if they are touched by any Cold War propaganda.
I was talking with a friend about how the US are like Iran and he compared Iran's attitude to irreligious people to that of Americans to pro-communist people.

Hmm...interesting topic. It's obvious that hardly anyone, besides FoxNews, talks about communism anymore. My personal feelings on communism in China are that I believe that if you have billions of people living in your borders, communism may be the only way to govern a body of people that large. However, communism talk in the United States is a thing of the past. But I can clearly see where you are getting the idea of Iran being compared to the United States during the Cold War. The U.S. government wanted the American people to look down among Communists, the general public only thought of the U.S.S.R. The whole Cold War was just a scenerio of two small childhood friends potentially going apeshit on each other, with a couple billion dollar high explosives.

I do not disrespect Islam in general, but countries in the Middle East have found an excuse to start their own Cold War on the United States and many other countries. Since the most popular form of religion is Islam, and since it is a very strict heritage and tradition, they can easily use it as political leverage. They can easily obtain the momentum they need to drive something like the U.S. had on the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War. Hopefully, this will be something that dies out just like the Evil-Communist propoganda the whole world experienced from tentions between two powerful nations. Anybody have any further thoughts to this?

Ahh Communism... The evil communism. Responsible for more problems and contention here in the U.S. than any other form of government. What is so great about communism anyway?

I don't think most Americans know anyone who supports Communism, so I don't think it really crosses their minds much any more.

Well, this is an interesting topic. I personally am a "paper communist". I feel that communism is (in general) an excellent system, on paper. Where communism fails is when you try to put it in practice and involve people.

What most people don't realize is that there are no true Communist governments, they are mostly Socialist governments.

KnightTemplar wrote:Well, this is an interesting topic. I personally am a "paper communist". I feel that communism is (in general) an excellent system, on paper. Where communism fails is when you try to put it in practice and involve people.

What most people don't realize is that there are no true Communist governments, they are mostly Socialist governments.

Haha, "paper communist"

Your remark is right actually. Communism is the highest stage of Socialism, where money is abolished and everything is nice and shiny and utopian.

So Americans have relaxed once the Cold War ended and there's no hostile communist nuclear superpower on the other side of the planet and there's no more anti-red attitudes? What about McCarthyism, I'm sure it's gone?

As for Forestryman, yea, people in the Middle-East live in a world of rulers and ruled. The rulers are often times the clergymen and they use the US as a common enemy to unite the masses (under the organized religion). The US stance behind Israel helps openly militant clerics a lot. I doubt if the most common Arab person in any region 100 kilometers and farther to Israel's borders will really live a better life if the Jews are gone, but the officials use Israel and the US (oh, the foreign "bully" politics ) for propaganda purposes. My impression is that there's a keg of powder getting formed down there, but that's another topic and KT already has to start playing surgeon and move parts of posts to other topics. (Hey, the forum is like a garden )

I noticed something, really odd and different last semester (when the weather was nice and there wasn't any snow on the ground). I was walking through campus (Penn State), and I saw all of these people walking to a certain area. So I investigated. Turns out that the campus Communist group was holding a "Community Share Blanket" get-together.

I know what your thinking...what is a community share blanket?

Found out that they are trying to pose the idea to the thousands of overly-liberal students at the Pennsylvania State University that Communism is good. I don't really know the answer to that, and I don't really care. Ignore my previous post, because I was stating what the overall country thinks about it. My views on Communism are mixed, and sometimes bad views but actually mostly "I don't know views" (go ahead CCM, eat your heart out ). The Community Share Blanket is to show people how communism shares all for the good of a community, instead of corporate or private greed. They welcome people to sit on the blanket, and share it with complete strangers.

It is a dumb idea, but I guess I see what point they are trying to make.

Did they whip it out yesterday and let everyone that wanted to bundle up in it to keep warm (you know, actually do something useful with it) or is it just a symbolic thing with no useful purpose at all?