07-13-2016, 09:25 PM
(07-13-2016, 02:35 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(07-13-2016, 11:40 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: When people making huge incomes off sweetheart deals with the federal, state, and local governments; people making easy money as landowners and landlords while living off low-touch investments; executives being paid very well for treating subordinates badly; and shysters operating legitimized rackets (licit loansharking) go down -- that's when the economy works for workers instead of working for everyone but working people. But beware: that is an America in which our cities resemble Berlin in the summer of 1945.
While I won't disagree that things could get real ugly, I don't know that even Occupy and Black Lives Matter together could match the bomb carrying capacity of the Eighth Air Force.
Could. Another possibility is something like the French Revolution. Is the Millennial Generation as hostile to entrenched elites? Will it have a choice to be otherwise?
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.