04-23-2022, 05:40 PM
It is essential that we revert to 'reality-based politics' and to the assumption that doing good for constituents is the legitimate purpose of politics. We should be electing politicians to serve us and not out-of-district and out-of-state 'sugar daddies' who supply the campaign funds. We have gone nearly as far as we can with politics whose assumption is that those who have the gold dictate politics without becoming an outright plutocracy. Government representing economic interests as estates' is the essence of fascist representation. We know how that goes: supposedly a coal miner is in solidarity with mine owners and not with workers in a steel mill who have similar lives.
Class interest is a valid criterion for supporting one politician over another. It might not be the sole reason: freedom and civility must take precedence. So if right-wingers despise the Class Struggle as debased Marxism... maybe they need to lessen the severe differences of economic result between owners and executives on the one side and workers on the other.
In other aspects of life we are obliged to do good and eschew evil. Why should politics be any different?
Class interest is a valid criterion for supporting one politician over another. It might not be the sole reason: freedom and civility must take precedence. So if right-wingers despise the Class Struggle as debased Marxism... maybe they need to lessen the severe differences of economic result between owners and executives on the one side and workers on the other.
In other aspects of life we are obliged to do good and eschew evil. Why should politics be any different?
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.