As the momentum shifts from Zaphod Hussein "Somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, a planet is missing its idiot" Beeblebrox to Mittens "Crazy rat guy" Romney, and Zaphod amps up the class-warfare rhetoric while continue to shower future taxpayers' money on super-rich supporters, and Mittens shows no public sign of actually understanding how this is a bad thing....
I ponder the totally-over-the-top, foaming-at-the-mouth political rants that I've been too upset to type up and post lately, regarding crony corporatism, tax farming, and the sale of the working class into serfdom, and I think:
It would be really easy to word one of these rants such that the reader would have great difficulty in determining whether the perspective was Libertarian or Communist.
Because, while Libertarianism and Communism are almost perfectly opposite, the system we have now is, somehow, almost perfectly opposite to both of them.
(Well, in principle, anyway. What we have now looks remarkably similar to Communism-as-practiced.)
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