04-25-2017, 06:33 AM
Donald Trump has successfully united the Corporate wing of the Republican Party and what H. L. Mencken called the "booboisie". The gullible fell for Donald Trump. With the usual con only a few (the immediate victim and loved ones who must rescue him) get hurt. With the Trump scam practically all of us get hurt.
But if that is 40% of the American people, that is what matters most -- nearly 90% of the wealth and practically the whole power of the executive elite -- America's nomenklatura. It is hardly surprising that the most rapacious, many of whom have sociopathic tendencies, align with a kindred spirit. Will America's elites allow a free and fair election that they believe that they could lose?
Ease and indulgence for economic elites and fear and hardship for everyone else is not good for political stability or even holding a nation together under a foreign threat. But that is some time off. Maybe there will be rifts in the elites. Maybe some people will insist upon fairness in the electoral process.
But if that is 40% of the American people, that is what matters most -- nearly 90% of the wealth and practically the whole power of the executive elite -- America's nomenklatura. It is hardly surprising that the most rapacious, many of whom have sociopathic tendencies, align with a kindred spirit. Will America's elites allow a free and fair election that they believe that they could lose?
Ease and indulgence for economic elites and fear and hardship for everyone else is not good for political stability or even holding a nation together under a foreign threat. But that is some time off. Maybe there will be rifts in the elites. Maybe some people will insist upon fairness in the electoral process.
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.