11-03-2019, 11:59 PM
(11-03-2019, 10:16 PM)taramarie Wrote:(11-03-2019, 01:01 PM)Hintergrund Wrote:If they are telling the truth it would be a good thing. Context is king of course.(11-15-2018, 04:15 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:(11-15-2018, 04:06 PM)Marypoza Wrote:(10-10-2018, 05:58 AM)Teejay Wrote: I have figured out what the main battle of this Fourth Turning, it is Liberal Democracy vs the Alt-Right/Neo-Nationalist (which I see as a spectrum) movement.
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If the Neo-Nationalist/Alt-Right wins, little doubt authoritarian regimes would emerge that would be at best 'illiberal democracies' at worst downright totalitarian.
They will purge what they consider their enemies which will be at the very least.
Anybody in the media and in public life they deem as "Leftists" or "Communists".
Feminist and LBGTQ activists.
Academics and teachers which they see as peddling "Cultural Marxism".
Transgender and even Homosexual people will be regarded as suffering from a mental illness and be sent to psychiatric hospitals to be retreated.
Depending on the regime in power:
Muslims (in some areas, where they are especially big enemies of whatever alt-right regime is in power)
Jews
Other ethnic groups deemed undesirable.
These regimes death toll won’t be on the scale of Nazism or Communism, still a lot of people killed.
Ultimately the alt-right want to take society back to the 1950's (well a fantasy version). Expect the education system to be purged of anything remotely resembling “cultural Marxism” and "post-modernism".
--- l just wish they'd purge Miz Nancy. We need fresh blood. Ain't gonna happen tho
ps, Toyz R Us is coming back
Purges have already started. We certainly can consider the likes of Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein and others has having been purged in the advent of the #MeToo movement. Yes, their behavior was horrible. Pointing this out as perhaps a preview of things to come in other arenas.
This rather sounds as if the lefties/feminists were winning.
It's funny when it isn't about real people, or if (as in this comic opera) nobody is going to be beheaded for some minor infraction such as spitting on the sidewalk. This little sketch is funny in a community not murdering people by the millions as in Hitlerland or even in a community killing people by the hundreds as in Pinochet's Chile.
I could name Donald Trump... who leaves democracy a rump... he never would be missed! I've got him on my list!
Those who use such hateful terms as "trailer trash" and "hick"... they're truly, truly sick! They never would be missed!
Fake princes of Nigeria with schemes named four-one-nine... demise would just be fine! Just add another line!
It is tongue-in-cheek stuff, allowing people to vent about those that they find abominable or troublesome. Where the executioner is the busiest fellow in town, it isn't so funny. It would not be a comic opera in Japan during World War II.
Ehen the tycoons, bureaucrats, and tyrants kill by millions, it won't be comic opera. It will be reality. Hitler had his huge list.
They will kill millions with hunger if global warming inundates a big chunk of the world's most fertile farmland -- such as Bangladesh. Oh, those peasant farmers do not matter because they are 'only'peasant farmers of which we know little> That makes them no less human, and their deaths no less tragic.
If they try to impose some new form of slavery, then they can expect severe resistance. Just imagine how different the ancient world would be had Spartacus won his insurrection... maybe the Romans would have needed to develop a market economy that actually rewards work, enterprise, and innovation instead of rewarding little more than class status. Maybe the Romans would have gone quickly to the level of technological, intellectual, and economic sophisticates with Massachusetts on the brink of the American Revolution instead of wallowing in slavery, with all that that implies. Fewer deaths will come from a civil war in which the slavers end up dead than one in which those who resist enslavement get the treatment that Spartacus' defeated army got -- ;ining a Roman road on crucifixes.
Wars for profit? If they resort to human-wave attacks that end in millions of pointless deaths, then those who profiteer from the war are no less horrible than those German tycoons who waxed fat by using forced labor that rarely survived long under the brutal conditions of the demonic Third Reich. Such human-wave attacks by Iran and Iraq against each other may have caused Henry Kissinger, no humanitarian himself, to blurt out "I wish that they could both lose", knowing that the ones who would most likely inherit what was left would have been the Soviet Union. The key difference between Bath-fascist Iraq or theocratic Iran and a fascistic America is that America has more potential cannon-fodder.
Liberal democracy always has enemies -- anyone who wants to be a tyrant and will kill anyone who gets in his way.
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.