Democracy vs. Communism: Who really won that battle?

Question

We were told back in 1990 that the Soviet Union had fallen. Then, we were told that they were going to be our "allies". Since 2001, our government has become more and more like a Communist regime. We are now known for our torture chambers, our lack of habeus corpus rights, and war crimes. I am told that once America has a major catastrophic event of some kind - possibly U.S. defaulting on it's debt, then we will see the Amero replace the dollar, the U.S. joining with Canada and Mexico, and a new constitution based on Communism. Heck, in metro Seattle, we even have a statue of Lenin taken after the "fall of the USSR". And, we have Communist propaganda papers being spread around the Univ of Washington campus.

In your opinion, who won between democracy and communism? (Actually, the US was founded as a constitutional republic, not a democracy.)

Thanks!

Answer 1

As Karl Marx would say, it was inevitable, based on the Hegelian dialectic theory, that the net result would not be either a pure capitalist (thesis) or pure communist (antithesis) state, but a synthesis of both.  This is more obvious in China and Russia, where capitalist influences have spread throughout their cultures, and less so here in the US and other "western" countries, although it is likely that we will develop a health care system that more closely resembles a "socialist" system than would have been though possible during the cold war years.

As to current events, the country is drifting in several directions at once, without a clear direction toward any specific "alternative" political and economic order.  Just watch and participate as it plays out, and Iraq, the oil economy, the health care mess and the housing crisis are resolved (and they will be) before picking a horse in this race.  My bet would be on a series of syntheses, some leaning left, some leaning right, but that's a lame prediction because it's just about inevitable.

There are always elements of facism present in our pluralistic system.  Was the neocon NWO a step toward the fourth reich?  Maybe, but couldn't gather enough momentum and has been internally divided anyway.  

As for the antichrist, you can believe what you want, but I don't see the bible as anything more than a flawed historic document cobbled together with the intent of promoting a repressive political order itself.