True, true. You could say the American/Union rivalry helps keep the capitalist powers honest. The rivalry also helped India to become an American ally rather than go communist when they threw out the Unionists. Now if only our Indian-led economic partners in the Pacific weren't always in trade disputes with the Australian-led Unionist Pacific Rim organization.
Pah - all the Indians did was trade one form of colonialism for another! Formerly they laboured to enrich the British imperialist ruling class, now they labour to furnish the US with cheap manufactured goods and provide Japan with proxy troops for the ongoing military disaster in China. One day, though, I'm sure that the workers of the subcontinent will throw off their chains!
Reminds me of the prank that my buddies and I pulled on on one of our Poli-Sci profs during my university days. He was an out and out (and very active) Red, so on the night of April 30 we snuck over to his place and replaced all of those red flags he set out with Union Jacks. Oh, the look on his face was priceless... Somehow I passed his course too, even after my (well-researched and solidly written) thesis made my views on communism quite clear.
So, in honour of that, every May I make sure that that a Union Jack flies in front of my house along with the Blue Ensign. God Save the King!
Maybe he managed to see the funny side, eventually?
OOC: You know, any double-blind RP that even remotely involves socialism is a mess. No one will miss an opportunity to do a political take that whenever they post. Any leftist government is going to instantly be turned into a baby-killing monstrosity by the first rightist.
OOC: Aye, you're right. I'm willing to play along with it on this thread in fun, but I really like what you've done with your Red Dawn thread, pointing out the positives of a leftist government while acknowledging the likely shortcomings so that it can't be dismissed as just Redwank or whatever.
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