09-10-2020, 09:52 AM
The elites will fight to the last mercenary that they can buy . Ultimately, revolutions and other momentous change happen when those in power as the leaders in charge pay the soldiers and the police, which explains more clearly and crudely why someone so cranky as Vladimir Lenin won "his" revolution.
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.