That applies to the here and now in the late once great USA!
Tell that to Hitlery and she'll just cackle and call the IRS like her hubby used to do.

Vietnam was my war...some of those unexploded bombs could be my fellow Air Force pilots...although everyone from my pilot training class who went to Vietnam were killed...years later i was hired by American Airlines, was flying on company business in 1st and was seated next to Henry Kissinger...we talked...he talked about to the U.S. govt determination to kill as many American g.i.s as the communists were determined to send Vietnamese to their deaths...

last year i worked part time at CarMax...got a call from Hanoi to buy a RangeRover....we both profited from the transaction...

Very interesting idea- let them go communist. The only problem is that Russia could snap up whatever wealth is there for its own nefarious purposes and then bomb us. That part isnt great either.

Develop star wars so we are protected , and then let the socialists go for it and fail like in Venezuela.

When one combines the book “War Is A Lie” by Swanson and “On Killing” by Grossman, the terrible cost of war in terms of human loss, not only death but the lifetime physical and psychological effects suffered by the surviving soldiers and their families makes me turn off the news in disgust every time I see a “military expert” on the news saying we need more war.

Ayn Rand was correct when she said evil dies of its own weight. Russia, Venezuela and Vietnam are but three examples.

maybe capitalism should be introduced or reintroduced back in the usa. because here is is losing.

Thanks, K. We just got back from a brief vacation and are fully refreshed.

hello, j. hope you and your family are well. you can make the post a best of. just hit the share button copy and paste. :)

It was the meme of the paradigm at the time. It's easy now as our vision looking back with 20/20 eyes. It's history now and we should learn from it. I am surprised to learn that they have.

But have we?

You can lead a people, a country or a government to prosperity and freedom but you can not Make them drink. Everyone grows at their own pace.
Our battles today, are for the Minds of Men, no proper example will do, no drug will do the trick and no trick will wake them up...they simply need to be uncomfortable in their ignorance.

I guess that includes US as well.

geez. on e day I will meet you. and smack the shit out of you ;)

Definitely not you. You are alive and aware.

I know how to make a comment into a "Best Of". How does one make a discussion into a "Best Of"? This article epitomizes the values of Objectivism and why we are here in this forum!

From the article: “Oh you want to be Communist? Wonderful! You go ahead and enjoy that, and give us a call in 20 years once you’re totally impoverished…” This quote deserves to be a viral YouTube video.

Excellent article. The author is speaking of logic and reality. But capitalism doesn't allow for the looters, not to mention the moochers!

No, second generation Polish -- we watched it on TV together -- she's the one who pointed out the Blue jeans.

oh. your wife is russian

My wife comments that one of the clues of the coming end of the soviet union came when there was a rare interview with Gorbachev. The clue was that his secretary was proudly wearing a pair of blue jeans -- something that was running about a month's salary if I remember correctly.

Capitalism wins. Except on college campuses of course where it is considered hate speech.

wait. not me...

I miss all of them (Well, except 1 or 2 religionists)

"Rather than fight the war, the US government would have been a lot better off saying, Oh you want to be Communist? Wonderful! You go ahead an enjoy that, and give us a call in 20 years once you’re totally impoverished…"
I agree. This applies to the American Civil War and Islamism too.

"how many gulchers are gone?"
There are plenty of people left to tell us you shouldn't post about capitalism winning because unless you're talking about how miserable things are in the world, you're an apologist of the world's evils.

Things are better than ever for humankind. Capitalism and reason deliver the goods.