This quote is spot on. And Chicago, I think in addition to the socialist traits you listed, self-hatred is also common to most socialists. Who else but a self-hater would want to enslave themselves to elitist tyrants.

I read Toynbee's "A Study of History" a few years back. It is very insightful and after I read it, it was like watching history repeat itself around me. You can actually identify the classification of civilization we're living in and the current stage we are in. It is very disconcerting to see that we are on a highway to hell and there are no exits.

I'm sure a UN international tax, a standing UN army, another UN council or commitee, a disarmed population, and all will be peace and harmony in the world. Until those commitees, councils, and armies under the control of dictators and various member despots of the UN come to march all of us troublemakers off to the gas chambers.

Reston, you can choose to leave these despotic United States anytime he chooses. Where will you go when the despotic UN owns the world? By the way, Bush's "lies" seem to be turning into "truths" these days.

Would that it were so...then we would live in a Marxist utopia where we would all live in equal squalor while we labor for our UN masters.