03-04-2018, 03:20 AM
(03-03-2018, 11:28 PM)skier Wrote: When our overlords make a decree, they always sell it as a minor temporary law that only affects Muslims, junkies, sex offenders, homosexuals, illegal immigrants, or blacks. The 1% doesn't mention that the law will become permanent and more draconian.
You can rest assured that any gun-control legislation will be so written as to include non-discrimination clauses for ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. That is not to say that I fully trust the 1% with my human rights, vote, or right to political participation. Industrialists, financiers, big landowners, and corporate bureaucrats have typically been the big financial backers of fascist causes and politicians; they of course want a cheap, submissive, cowed, obedient work force for which one suffers adequately without complaint or learns how horrible things can be in a labor camp in which one is treated worse than a plantation slave (if only because slaves were valuable assets on a plantation). I have no more faith in America's economic elite than one had justification to expect the best of the German economic elite around 1930. Nazi Germany was a plutocrat's paradise (so long as one wasn't Jewish) and a worker's Hell.
Quote:No one cares if owning cows are illegal, yoga pants are illegal, teen driving is illegal, or smoking is illegal. The problem is what happens when your job is banned, the government steals your house, tortures your family, or sends you to the concentration camps.
Are you just going to take it?
We must all be prepared to abort any fascistic tendency in the USA as a whole and in any State of the Union. If you think that gun rights are essential to the stopping of fascism, then remember that Nazi Germany was awash in privately-held firearms, as it was the duty of every 'good, patriotic, active' Nazi to have as many as possible. It is possible to have an arch-conservative government, like the UK under the late Margaret Thatcher, in which firearms are practically outlawed.
Liberals, moderates, and conservatives alike need to resist the dictatorial and despotic tendencies of our current President if they are to make America the sort of place that is good for most people.
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.