>>...Still, Brad de Long's proposals are pie-in-sky stuff that
>>invites Gandhi's retort about western civilisation...
>
>The basic political rights of the eighteenth century? Pie-in-the-sky stuff?
Yeah. If they did that, they'd be effectively a U.S. colony in less than two years. Maybe less than a year. What's pie-in-the-sky about this is that you just can't accept the fact that the U.S. just won't tolerate a socialist regime anywhere in the western hemisphere, and will do everything in its power to destroy it.
Doug