>>>Otoh, You can vote for him anyway. You live in democratic country, it is not like you have to show an empty hand
>>>after deeping hand into republican ellection jar <vbg>
>>
>>In spite of what they say, socialism marches on the backs of citizens and because of that it ultimately fails.
>>[Okay - let the nagging begin:]
>
>HI Grady :)
>
>This was actually joke about early days of communist regime in Serbia back in late 40ies.
>Willagers wld come to vote, but unlike today, they used to drop small ball (wrapped paper or even beans) in
>one of two big jars. One for YES & one for NO. (Whatever that might be)
>
>Then local party activists (and volunteer spies) would watch (or listen) where ball is going to land.
>Of course those who landed ball in a wrong jar would automatically land themselves in big trouble.
>
>So people soon realised that ellections were not exactly healty, so they would land the ball in 'correct' jar
>and immediately show empy hand to party official (and local spies) to spare themselves a trouble.
>
>* * *
>
>But that was all long long time ago.
>
>As for Socialisam vs Capitalism; I believe you (and many others) still did not realize that things have changed last couple of decades.
>There is very few old fashion 'Socialist' countries left (Cuba, NC) and there is certainly no more 'Iron Courtain' & 'communist threat' etc.
>(Despite the fact that some politicians in US keep on trying to reinvent Russia as universal imagginary enemy, nowdays that sounds really backdated if not outright stupid)
>
>Real Socialisam nowdays is happening in Europe!
>Nowdays, most of Europe is actually prety much 'Socialist' if you want. Europe today is land where workers got what Communists
>promissed them some 70 years back. It did happen exactly where Marx predicted it just 6-7 decades later. :)
>
>BTW China is today booming economically rather then collapsing, nagging right back at your theory :)
China adopted capitalist methods and gave some freedom to the citizens to achieve the so called success. :)

>Cheers :)
>Sergio