06-29-2021, 07:38 PM
(06-29-2021, 11:41 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Thanks for these posts, brower. I suspect that more people need to realize that the political divide today is a real crisis, and the choice we need to make is to reject and outvote the authoritarians who have made the Republican Party their home, and have used the system to expand their power and influence. We need to act and make this choice, lest we succumb not only to greater authoritarian rule, restricted to older white christian males, but fail to address the needs of society, which is the great danger that our authoritarian, reactionary ideology poses. Our right-wing is focused on the determination not to meet those needs, because to use government or cooperate to meet them is against their ideology. Yet only government has the ability to restrain these authorities. The apparent paradox of this, that our government is the tool to restrain authoritarianism, is played up to the hilt by the right wing, who use slogans of "freedom" to disguise their intent to destroy it. Those slogans themselves, I contend, is the greatest threat we in the USA face today.One to think of it, we are only a few weeks away from the golden anniversary of the infamous Powell memorandum, which didn’t really rear its ugly head until a full decade later with Reagan’s assault on the air traffic controllers. Many at the time consider RWR to be the greatest thing to come along since sliced bread. There are no doubt many who still do.