Interesting. So you're saying that it boils down to being branded as a communist because of the history of the US. I'm Canadian, so the irrational fear of com

Interesting. So you're saying that it boils down to being branded as a communist because of the history of the US. I'm Canadian, so the irrational fear of communism/socialism is much lower here. Not that I'm advocating for communism of course. Any system that honestly believes that a dictatorship[1] needs to be established first and that it will simply "whither away"[2] has been proven by history to be wrong. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state