10-08-2018, 06:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-08-2018, 06:41 PM by Eric the Green.)
Steve Bannon advocates dismantling the administrative state, which is the protection put in place for the people from the excesses of the business elites. So as a nationalist, he talks a good game about economics for the people, but he really belongs in the yellow free market sector. That is the effect of his policies, whether he specifically references Ayn Rand or not. These free market dogmatists are phony intellectuals.
Ultimately, a brutal fight will involve militaries. Only an organized alternative state can hope to put up a credible fight against an establishment. If in the meantime, the true liberals (more than "effete counter cultural" liberals, but the much vaster sector and range of liberals and democratic socialists) are able to take power democratically, they will have the military at their disposal. Whoever controls the state, will control the military, and they can clear out and put down rebels easily, just as they cleared out the congress this week, and went on after the sit ins in Wisconsin or the occupation of Wall Street. If the true liberals and intellectuals are reduced to mere people power occupations, the established hard right state which we have now will clear them without too much trouble. Conversely, if the liberals attain power, they will be able to put down the rebellions by the unorganized Bannonites, no matter how prepared to fight they are. If either side is able to organize alternative or seceding states to fight against the established state, then all bets are off in the ensuing civil war. But in that case, it won't matter which side the nationalists and the effete countercultural hipsters are on. It will be a battle between organized armies and states.
Ultimately, a brutal fight will involve militaries. Only an organized alternative state can hope to put up a credible fight against an establishment. If in the meantime, the true liberals (more than "effete counter cultural" liberals, but the much vaster sector and range of liberals and democratic socialists) are able to take power democratically, they will have the military at their disposal. Whoever controls the state, will control the military, and they can clear out and put down rebels easily, just as they cleared out the congress this week, and went on after the sit ins in Wisconsin or the occupation of Wall Street. If the true liberals and intellectuals are reduced to mere people power occupations, the established hard right state which we have now will clear them without too much trouble. Conversely, if the liberals attain power, they will be able to put down the rebellions by the unorganized Bannonites, no matter how prepared to fight they are. If either side is able to organize alternative or seceding states to fight against the established state, then all bets are off in the ensuing civil war. But in that case, it won't matter which side the nationalists and the effete countercultural hipsters are on. It will be a battle between organized armies and states.