04-26-2019, 01:27 AM
(04-25-2019, 02:44 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-25-2019, 01:19 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: You express the tenet of social Darwinism, Classic. That is part and parcel of the ideology of free-market economics, and also the justification for Hitler's racism and nationalism. Without saying what your ideology is, exactly, your phrase indicates your belief in this approach to life as competition for survival of the fittest and the devil take the hindmost. We liberals want everyone to have the opportunity to succeed, and help for those who have problems, because we don't blame the problems exclusively on the individual and his/her fitness for survival.
Today, labor is being cut out not by rural and red America folks working and beating out welfare recipients, but by the people whom your votes empower and put in office and in the board rooms. You vote for the oligarchy, in the guise of free enterprise, individualism and survival of the fittest and against welfare and immigrants. The corporate oligarchy directly benefits from your votes, frees them up, and enables them to institute free trade (which means corporations hire cheap labor abroad), computer automation and robotics (which means workers lose their jobs), low wages (which means more people in poverty), corporate buyouts (which results in more job losses and concentration of economic power), reduced regulations (which result in pollution, climate change, financial crashes and poor consumer products), lower taxes for themselves (which creates income inequality) and obstructions to labor unions (which lowers wages and worsens working conditions). Your votes create the current problems of labor being phased out. You vote for it, and your red regions suffer even more from this, and turn to opioids for solace and suicide.
Funny, a social Darwin self promotes, defines, educates and convinces themselves and other social Darwin's that they're the most valuable and most powerful deer in the woods and then do whatever they can or have to do to as fake deer to avoid contact and serious encounters and getting into fights with members of the real deer population. Me, I tend to remain true to my nature and not pretend or allow others to convince me of being someone or something other than myself. A social Darwin breaks the law and pays a fortune to have a child of theirs accepted by an elite college who normally would not accept them based on their true merits. A social Darwin imposes rules and laws that favor the acceptance mediocre students based of their race or gender or sexual orientation or ideological beliefs and does whatever it can to hamper and exclude those who actually have merit. In other words, social Darwinism as you say, ain't natural and often undermines, defies or seeks to destroy what's natural or often viewed and accepted as natural. In short, I'm a Darwin but I'm not a social Darwin or one of their followers/believers like yourself and other liberals who used to post in the old forum. Hint, American Classical Liberalism and natural selection eventually prevailed over social Darwinism back then.
No, Social Darwinism is not what you think it is. Paradoxically it is neither social nor in any way connected to Charles Darwin (who rejected it). It is not corruption in the sense of bribing institutions to get ahead. It is the idea that those who gain advantages in a capitalist society due to fortunate investments or to bureaucratic power have the God-given (or should I say, Mammon-given) right to treat their lessers badly because such reflects and promotes economic 'evolution'. Charles Darwin was very much on the extreme Left of his time -- so much that Karl Marx sought to dedicate Das Kapital to Darwin, reflecting Marx' belief that Marx' style of socialism was itself a great evolution in economics and morality. (Marx' prediction of a glorious world in which the State ran the economy has some serious flaws and became obsolete when capitalists decided that it was far safer to have the proletariat as consumers with a stake in capitalism than as near-serfs who had cause to destroy capitalism).
Quote:What am I voting for today? I'm voting for a stronger presence of American troops and American law enforcement officials and additional security measures like fences and high tech security apparatus's to be positioned along our southern border.
The border wall that Donald Trump proposes will be full of graft and short of value. That is Donald Trump for you. High technology for catching illegal border-crossers? We already have a pretext for that in suppressing the import of illegal drugs. But let us remember why people cross the border with illegal drugs: American addicts, which includes people of all ethnic and social groups. What do you want to do about the plague of illegal drugs?
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.