You can't keep a good man down--Karl Marx in news stories lately

[TBF]

3. Not only has the red-baiting and fear been instilled

(I always use the example of the those films we all watched in 6th grade or so of Moscow with their empty shelves in the stores) ... but our young communists in the 40s-50s were deported. We lost a generation and then Reagan erupted with his "ownership society" in the 80s. Being subjected to the marketing that encourages so many people to act against their own economic interest is maddening.

The most valuable part of President Obama's presidency, imo, is that it is teaching our current youth that they are going to be the ones to make things change - that they can't look to the establishment to reign in itself (and he also kept us from going completely off the cliff with Bush's financial shenanigans). Now it is up to them to fight. It's up to us to help them with our experience, knowledge, and theory.

But I have to disagree with the statement "greed will cause every type of government to fail". I think it will eventually be capitalism's downfall - how long will folks really put up with 1% at the top controlling most of the wealth? If society were structured differently, however, and greed were not rewarded, I don't think we'd see the same behaviors.