12-27-2019, 03:35 AM
(12-27-2019, 01:38 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-26-2019, 02:19 PM)David Horn Wrote:(12-23-2019, 01:51 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(12-23-2019, 04:03 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: If the Nationalists win, they won't be able to establish a proper 1T because the elites despise them.
If the Nationalists win, that will mean that most of the elites have been destroyed, and the remaining ones will have been cowed into submission.
That depends on which elites you're addressing. The wealthy elite are, for all practical purposes, untouchable by the nationalists who rant on about foreigners, not them. If anything, the wealthy elite are completely happy to join in the immigrant-bashing, while using their at-risk talents to make millions or Billions for themselves.
Are they really as untouchable as you say? Dude, we are touching them/ financially hurting them/ financially threatening them right now which is why your politicians are going ape shit, supporting stupid stuff and acting more like a bunch foreign/ global politicians than American politicians right now. The proof is in the pudding as we say.
Classic X'er, the rich-and-powerful will turn on you and all the deluded people that those rich-and-powerful saw as useful tools when they no longer need you for their political ends. Some of them have discovered that the Tea Party has become a Frankenstein monster. They still like their economy monopolistic and inequitable. Maybe when they see someone like Donald Trump as the sort who will get America into a catastrophic war whether through bungling or design, they will turn against him.
I do not trust the rich-and-powerful, and you are a fool to do so even if they offer some temporary gain, solace, or agenda that you cherish. Anything that they grant they will gladly take away somehow.
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.