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Saturday, November 1, 2008 02:03 PM

apples & oranges?

Why do so many still confuse DEMOCRACY with CAPITALISM? They are not synonymous. The current administration has been pulling the wool over your eyes -- they defend "capitalism" in the name of "democracy," while whittling away at and threatening the very fabric of the latter. Get out a dictionary or encyclopedia to educate yourselves on the difference between these two concepts --- or would reading a dictionary or encyclopedia, educating yourselves, be too "elitist?!"

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