10-27-2022, 05:20 PM
(10-27-2022, 09:58 AM)JasonBlack Wrote: We will probably disagree on whether there are going to be more extreme right or extreme left terrorist groups left over on the fringes of the 1T, but either way, I think we all agree the people will be electing a president who is hard on such individuals and will bring the hammer down on those who seek to disrupt the hard-won peace.
Extremists assert their individuality before they take power, but they enforce robotic conformity once in power.
It may be mere coincidence, or simply timing, that we have a much larger and more militant Hard Right than a Hard Left. The legal hammer is coming down on members of the Michigan Plot and on participants in the Capitol Putsch.
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.