You say you want a revolution?

I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of is contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist.-"The World's Last Night," by C.S. Lewis

Russia is already looking with horror---at us! At Pravda.ru (not Leon Trotsky's Pravda, nor the tabloid Pravda risen from its ashes after the demise of the Communist Party mouthpiece in 1991, but the online magazine), these ex-revolutionaries appear bemused by our nation's current flirtation with socialism:

Like the breaking of a dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless sheeple . . . the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century . . . for the surrender of their freedoms and souls. . . .

The piece reads like a Glen Beck fantasy editorial, and I am still wondering if it's not a hoax perpetrated by some out-of-work blogger in the Bible belt. (There's also an editorial comparing President Obama to Mikhail Gorbachev.) But assuming it's the real deal, the analysis of our nation's "descent" posits three main causes:

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture. . . . Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations," were . . . happy to sell out their souls . . . to be on the 'winning' side. . . .

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been record-setting. . . . If this keeps up for more than another year--- and there is no sign that it will not---America will at best resemble the Weimar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe. . . ."

Next I am waiting to hear from Venezuela and Argentina.

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