>>I've had my share of eastern cars, and they're not that bad (except the
>>I figure if Americans ever decided to try some socialism, they'd find a way to do it right, or at least better than what previous attempts. Of course, being a programmer I don't have the vision - I only assume that it should be a better one.
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>It is my fervant prayer that we never try socialism again. It's also one of the reasons I am politically active.

I don't expect any new attempts within my lifetime. But the current behavior of global capitalism may spark another one, and then it won't be done right again, simply because whatever was right in the idea was perverted through a hundred of years of malpractice.

As they once said on Radio Yerevan, "in capitalism man exploits man; we have it the opposite way".