Serious Question for the Group. What do you guys think about Beau of the Fifth Column??

[myccrider]

32. I understand the feeling of "HUNH??" about him

but I’m not voting for him to enact his utopian dream. As I mentioned, I *was* a communist, so I understand that reasonable people can have divergent ideas.

While I was a commie, I agreed with most of the "liberals" of my day about most of the practical politics and all of the social issues. I just thought that in the end, we’d have to overthrow the gov and end capitalism to get what people really needed. So listening to me talk issues way back then, you and I likely would have agreed about what the problems were and what practical, immediate steps we needed to take to improve the situation, even if our ultimate goals diverged. ;-9 Since the whole ending capitalism wasn’t going to happen for quite a while, lets us go fight to end the war, fight racial discrimination, fight for union organizing, etc.

So, I’ll continue to listen to his videos because I like what he says about current political and economic issues and I learn new things occasionally.