01-31-2021, 12:40 PM
(01-28-2021, 10:18 AM)David Horn Wrote:(01-27-2021, 11:57 PM)random3 Wrote: Americans think that Biden will pay off the US debt, restore the Bill of Rights, and end the wars.
... and who might these "Americans" be? None that I know.
Paying off the national debt is utopian. People have differing ideas on what the Amendments in the Bill of Rights mean. (At this I think of people who speak of "Tenth Amendment Citizenship", which somehow seems to ignore subsequent amendments, especially the 13th, 14th, and 15th. Does that person mean only white property-owning males?)
Ending the wars? Until the last sick society either gets obliterated or reforms itself into something stable and benign, there will always be wars.
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.