03-13-2022, 01:55 PM
My liberal side is right about economic inequality and the inequity that it engenders. It is in a trap set by the Master Class that practically ensures that steady improvement through incremental reform is either futile or abortive; such can push us into more radical positions that moderates consider menacing.The only successful reformers in our system at achieving their ends,for the last forty years or so, have been those who stand with the most ruthless, rapacious, reckless, and intolerant people in America: the economic elites. Our fault is that we do not adequately stand for small, competitive business that can create prosperity without imposing mass poverty..
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.