09-26-2020, 03:24 PM
Let's not forget: one need not be a person of color to be oppressed. Appalachia is poor and oppressed, and that has nothing to do with race. Maybe the Democrats who once got easy re-elections by standing with miners failed to invest in the future. Republicans have taken over by default, and they simply defer to the rapacious plutocrats of America.
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.