12-10-2017, 03:14 PM
The ultimate objective of every rightist regime is to make everything but the toil of the common person fiendishly expensive and thus maximally profitable -- and the toil of the common man so cheap that even survival becomes a privilege.
Because middle-class status depends heavily upon high-quality college education, anything that tends to deny high-quality education to intellectually-qualified people from poor families practically denies youth from poor families having any chance at any semblance of a Good Life.
Whetherit so desires or not, the contemporary Right is putting America on a fast track to becoming an aristocratic order with a rigid class structure that determines life as rigidly as clockwoork.
Because middle-class status depends heavily upon high-quality college education, anything that tends to deny high-quality education to intellectually-qualified people from poor families practically denies youth from poor families having any chance at any semblance of a Good Life.
Whetherit so desires or not, the contemporary Right is putting America on a fast track to becoming an aristocratic order with a rigid class structure that determines life as rigidly as clockwoork.
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.