better dead than red, redux 23

Previewing his analysis of the National Security Agency's just-exposed program to collect the phone call records of millions of Americans, host Neil Cavuto declared during the May 11 edition of Fox News' Your World: "CAVUTO: Yes, it is not great to necessarily hear they're collecting our phone records, but it's a heck of a lot better than collecting our remains.

We certainly have come a long way since the 60's now haven't we? The other day a conservative, talking-headless wonder suggested that we all would be better off living under a totalitarian fascist dictatorship than die fighting for freedom. It used to be that Stalinism (really to what that "red" connotation referred) was so bad and so totalitarian that fighting for freedom to our deaths (Patrick Henry anyone?) was vastly preferred to living within such a regime. Today the same people suggest the very opposite. Could it be that it is all a matter of the elite perspective? In one era they were promoting war against such regimes, in an other era they are promoting war to protect such a regime. And they find not one shred of indecent hypocrisy in their thought processes. It is too kind, as well as a disservice to the disabled, to call these people idiots. They are much worse. Selfish greedy motherfuckers is a whole lot closer, and still an understatement.