12-27-2016, 10:05 PM
(12-27-2016, 02:09 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(12-27-2016, 11:15 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(12-27-2016, 06:35 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:
Of course, the Republicans in the House won both the popular vote and the number of seats. I guess that means the House Republicans are the ones with the mandate. I'm happy if the Senate and President become a rubber stamp for whatever gets through the House.
That's true. Shame on the majority of American voters who support your outdated ideology that keeps power in the hands of a few rich people. Americans do not know how to vote for what benefits them.
Even worse -- as the terms of compliance with the will of the Master Class become increasingly odious and one-sided, and such means as free elections become in doubt, a major shift in mass opinion can require increasingly-severe violence to resolve the issue one way (democracy) or the other (tyranny).
Much that many of us thought unlikely to be at stake two months ago is at stake, including freedom and the value of human life. .
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.