04-23-2018, 08:49 AM
(04-22-2018, 11:24 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-22-2018, 09:34 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: This brainwashed bottle blond makes me sick to hear her. Someone like her could have been as easily extolling the wonders of the German Democratic Republic (the infamous East Germany) at one time.
Certainly there's plenty of polling showing that Millenials as a whole care little for democracy and like socialism, both of which would make them good fits for the former East Germany. I don't think that particular Millenial has gone that far on those issues, but plenty of her generation has.
Well, they largely despise Donald Trump, so that is a positive sign.
For much of the Right, the ideal person is someone who recognizes duties toward the elites of ownership and management, who believes that no human suffering can ever be in excess so long as it enriches those elites, indulges the elites, or enforces their power. Responsibility of all toward a Master Class of gross exploiters irrespective of the human suffering that results, is the objective of feudal and fascist economic orders that nobody recognizes as democratic.
The hazard that I see in the Millennial Generation is one that older adults can shove upon them -- that they can become much like Jacobins, with similar results. Oppressors and charlatans to the guillotine -- or simply to the chamber for nitrogen asphyxiation?
I can easily see them thinking that a new and more just (and rational) America can do without exploitative capitalists, the executive nomenklatura, corrupt politicians, and sell-out intellectuals.
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.