01-03-2017, 01:54 PM
(01-03-2017, 07:12 AM)Galen Wrote:(12-30-2016, 08:09 AM)Odin Wrote:(12-30-2016, 12:14 AM)Galen Wrote:(12-28-2016, 08:19 AM)Odin Wrote: These Fascist lunatics are a threat to a free society. They are exactly the type Popper was talking about when he said that we might have to suppress the intolerant to preserve a tolerant society.
I think I have heard something very similar to this a long time ago: We have to destroy the village to save it.
More like exiling a few troublemakers from the village.
Given the vote totals in the last election it would seem like you want to exile half the population. Clearly more than a few troublemakers.
How long will that support last? Donald Trump did little better than Dukakis in 1988 or McCain in 2008, and we are to give him full power to establish an absolute plutocracy?
There were plenty of dupes who are going to regret voting for Donald Trump and fellow reactionaries when those reactionaries make life miserable for all but a few. There will be jobs, but they will pay very badly.
Of course, no human suffering is in excess so long as the elites get what they want -- as on an ante-bellum plantation or in a fascist labor camp.
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.