[cipherpunk]

Traitors to America? What the hell does that even mean in this context?

Are all anti-capitalists traitors to America?

[tomjen3]

America is the country it is and people have it as good as they have it because America embraces capitalism.

You would call a soldier a traitor if he gave a nuke to Al Quida right? Yet America would survive. Without capitalism, America would not.

[rbanffy]

> Without capitalism, America would not.

It would, of course. Just look at some European democracies that lean heavily towards socialism. Excellent universal healthcare, schooling, civil rights (yes, economic systems are orthogonal do state systems) and so on.

What really endangers the US is the rapid erosion of civil liberties under the excuse the country is under attack. It is, but if the medicine kills the patient, it is not exactly a winning scenario.

[beedogs]

This may be the worst comment I've read on HN in months.