05-23-2017, 12:40 PM
(05-23-2017, 06:53 AM)Odin Wrote:(05-22-2017, 11:20 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: That 30something% core are completely illiberal people. Some of them are totalitarians. These are people who are way more radical then those who simply react against the 60s and 70s. These are people who opine that the entire "Progressive" (e.g. classical Progressive stemming from 1900AD GOPers / Bull Moose / etc) program was evil, or more radically, that Western cultural development since the end of the Middle Ages was evil.
They are the sort of people who want to turn the US into a theocracy based on "biblical law", basically no different than the Taliban.
Why don't they simply convert to Shi'a Islam and go to Iran? They would be incredibly happy!
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.