11-12-2016, 12:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-12-2016, 12:25 AM by Eric the Green.)
(11-11-2016, 09:01 PM)Odin Wrote:(11-11-2016, 06:12 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: https://youtu.be/nGzkchO0t1c?t=2m57s
Yes indeed. But what if, The Prisoner was my favorite show?
It's easy to get things confused, and mix up today's racist or semi-racist libertarians with the counter-cultural opposition to the depersonalizing technocracy that Patrick McGoohan railed against. And for the oligarchy to exploit racist resentments and harness them to keep themselves in power. The oligarchy-- who doesn't want "every aspect of their lives controlled by paternalistic social-engineering"-- and who resist having their ill-gotten robbery taxed and regulated so that the rest of us are at their mercy as they pollute and destroy the world for their own greed.
As usual, Eric, you have missed the point. These people want to live their lives in their communities the way they want to and don't like it when people from the Big City come and tell them what to do "for their own good", they don't want to be forced into some scheme of how society "should be" formulated by people far away who think they are just a bunch of dumb hicks whose opinions, beliefs, and values don't matter. That business interests and televangelist hucksters have tapped into those resentments for their own selfish ends does not make those resentments any less valid.
That image of big city folks telling rural/small town communities what to do for their own good, is a myth propagated by people in your kind of communities because it makes them feel good about their conditions which they don't understand. What specifically are big city folk actually doing to these communities that they resent? Passing gun control in their own cities and blue states? Or what, specifically?
Quote:And your blind partisanship is showing by how you think it's only the GOP that is under the thumb of the "oligarchs", there are tons of Wall Street financiers and Silicon Valley Tech billionaires who are Democrats
You missed the point. The Republican policies give tax breaks and take away regulations that allow the rich and powerful to get stronger and do what they want to harm the people. That's simple, and you know that, and that's all there is to it.
The Democratic programs that cost higher taxes and regulate more have nothing to do with "interfering in peoples' lives." It's interfering with the wealth and power of the wealthy elites. So why do the rural folks buy into it and vote for these slogans, then? Because "business interests and televangelist hucksters have tapped into those resentments for their own selfish ends." What the business interests and evangelists do is the cause of their problems, but they are too provincial and too busy to get informed and see this.
I understand that they might be confused, and believe these Reaganoid slogans about freedom. They are self-reliant and traditional folks. They don't know The Prisoner or Patrick McGoohan. But they know what "freedom" is supposed to mean. So it's easy for big business to fool them into believing that giving freedom to the "job creaters" means giving THEM freedom too. I'm sorry, but I think they should know better. It's not all that hard. So I don't sympathize with their vote, which perpetuates their own problems, (and mine, incidentally), although I sympathize with their plight in this Reaganoid society which created it.