SOCIAL: Top 10 Differences Between Bush Administration and Soviet Communism - noarchive

[Paul Spinrad]

Top 10 Differences Between Bush Administration and Soviet Communism
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10. Repeated pronouncements that "all is well" and "things are going great" 
is needed reality-check against country-hating naysayers.

9. Systematic, pervasive surveillance of citizenry done by state-of-the-art 
software, not pale, untrustworthy spooks.

8. Cronyism benefits everyone when friends are smartest people in world.

7. Expanding size, budget, and indebtedness of government shows confidence 
in country's strong, healthy business future.

6. Noble purpose makes it OK to remake world in own image and "break a few 
eggs" in process.  (Communism not noble purpose.)

5. High-tech, 21st century enemy makes extra-judicial detentions, secret 
prisons, and torture necessary for first time in history.

4. Expanding inner-circle's power while punishing all dissenters breaks 
through gridlock, streamlining governing process and emergency-response 
effectiveness.

3. Relaxing environmental restrictions is win-win for capitalism: good for 
industrial polluters, good for growing healthcare sector.

2. New "black box voting" technology gives comforting illusion of choice, 
seems like less of joke.

1. Big picture of Ronald Reagan on wall of Oval Office.