10-01-2020, 01:42 PM
(10-01-2020, 03:39 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(09-30-2020, 07:53 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(09-29-2020, 12:43 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(09-29-2020, 11:13 AM)David Horn Wrote: With Hang-'em-high Amy coming to the court, gun rights might become total. Then the bloodshed will begin in earnest.
Is there part of 'shall not be infringed' that you don't get? I don't know that anyone is arguing about felons and the insane.
I'd want Brad Parscale to lose his guns.
Do you have a due process way to prove him a felon or insane? He's a Trump enabler. There might be a way to do either. But, still, if you don't have a way to establish either in court, he has rights which should not be removed. Blue folks sometimes think their whims have force of law. Red folks have ways to make their whims have force of law. Neither is desirable.
Mind you, it is getting to the point where you might start a class action suit to declare all Trump supporters insane, but that isn't the American way either.
Trump enablers are not insane. Some may be in on the scam themselves, and some may be dependent upon him. Trump has modified the neoliberal, plutocratic ideology first appearing under Reagan into something fitting their ethnic and religious bigotry that was not originally part of neoliberalism. Some care little about economics and love to hear someone satisfy their racism, religious bigotry, Then there are the brainwashed, the people who believe in conspiracy theories tailor-made for their core beliefs.
Some people have never learned to discern the difference between truth and their beliefs. All sorts of crazy ideas may race through my head, but I can do some fact checking on many of them and recognize them as nonsense. To be sure, right-wing shock-jocks such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and Sean Hannity have primed many Americans for a right-wing demagogue. The problem with such is that one ends up with a Donald Trump who gets what he thinks is dictatorial power while being ill-prepared to use it because he is too greedy, shallow, and unlearned to use such power without it going bad.
The real danger will come if the Hard Right finds someone who desires to reshape America into some inhuman nightmare of repression, exploitation, inequality, and militarism. Such a figure will know enough to control the media and suppress the opposition before purging his side of 'backsliders' and 'compromisers' to establish some nightmarish "Christian and Corporate State". Do not delude yourself; such people are learning what not to do from Trump that has nothing to do with his beliefs. I remind you of my definition of fascism: Bolshevik tactics in the service of a reactionary ideology. So suppose that we have an economic meltdown like that of 1929-1932 with a liberal President and liberals in office. Some right-winger will promise work and food, and certainty instead of doubt. There will be plenty of work, to be sure, including much unpaid work in the service of the Master Class that can extract every moment of toil possible from an industrial serf. Certainty? Someone like Rachel Maddow will be dead, in prison, or in exile. When only one view of the world is available people can have great certainty about the most basic "truths" as expounded by the leadership, but delivered with fear of anything else. Education will be reduced tor many as it was for blacks under Apartheid rule in South Africa to preparation for being raw labor or domestic servants., and if one has the dubious privilege of getting more than elementary schooling because one's toil is needed now for farm labor or industrial work, one will get brainwashing so that one could become complict in horrible deeds while thinking that nothing is wrong. .
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.