Just Another Political Post.

[Occhidiangela]

You have a justice system, which is supposed to protect it's citizens, not being a tool of the state to get rid of political enemies. (I know this goes wrong once in a while e.g. the "communist hunt" of Mccarthy, or the racist crimes in the south in the 20th century). If you don't have a common idea of what teh state should do to protect her citizens in a fair and equal way, you don't have much basis for being a state.There was actually a kind of joke there, I was referring to  Bush and Clinton.
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Senator McCarthy, for all that his witch hunt was an exercise in bluster, was fundamentally on the right track, as there were indeed plenty of communist sympatizers, moles and infiltrators in our government in the 1950's a nd on into the 1980's. The "Who Lost China" red herring strikes me in retrospect as typical American myopia and hubris, in that it ignored certain realities on the ground in Asia. McCarthy's methods were inelegant, his targets often well hidden and well protected, and the related body in the House of Representatives , HUAC, were likewise clumsy and frequentlly aiming eratically. They ran into a well run counter propaganda campaign, to include Arthur Miller's excellent play "The Crucible" which satirizes witch hunts.

What you probably don't understand, as a coddled, protected, Generation Whine Euro Socialist, eppie, is that Communists explicitly used infiltration, false flag operations, and systemic propaganda campaigns to undermine and overthrow more open societies, as well as more dictatorial governments. That was a fundamental part of their Modus Operandi. The aim was the International supremacy of Commuinism and Socialism, depending on who was carrying the banner. They were not alone in all of the methods they used, Sun Tzu's book was well read the world over.

As to the rest, you are speaking out of your backside. You choose not to understand the difference between being a state and being a constitutional republic and the separation of powers; you obviously don't get the problems of scale between small and large nation states; you time and again demonstrate cluelessness regarding the down side of inconsistent cultural assumptions and how multiculturalism is a DIVISIVE force on a society, for all that it adds a marvelous variety and texture. Functioning and stable societies are based on agreed norms. The more norms vary, the more chaotic the society.

Do you want to keep making a fool of yourself? Your call.

Occhi