(04-24-2018, 01:53 PM)David Horn Wrote:(04-22-2018, 11:24 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-22-2018, 09:34 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: This brainwashed bottle blond makes me sick to hear her. Someone like her could have been as easily extolling the wonders of the German Democratic Republic (the infamous East Germany) at one time.
Certainly there's plenty of polling showing that Millenials as a whole care little for democracy and like socialism, both of which would make them good fits for the former East Germany. I don't think that particular Millenial has gone that far on those issues, but plenty of her generation has.
Why should they care about democracy, when it has failed them at every turn. Capitalism, likewise. That doesn't make them authoritarians or communists. Trump is more authoritarian than any leader we've ever had, and the Millies hate him. I do think they prefer socialism, though they seem ill prepared to understand it very well.
They will usher in a post-capitalism era, or they will become the worst type of wage slaves. At some level, they understand THAT very well.
Government by lobbyists responsible solely to their paymasters is not democracy. It is arguable that the USA has become an authoritarian society instead of the democracy that it once was. The capitalist system that Millennial Generation knows is a no-second-chances order in which the most rapacious, demanding elites call the shots and decides what is good and what is bad, and in which rewards are low and responsibilities are high.
As we enter a post-industrial society, labor can become practically worthless. The idea that people can be happier just by buying more stuff is becoming absurd. The ideas that we are richer because we pay higher rents and higher tolls, just to live near places of employment and get to them and pay higher tuition to qualify to be wage slaves are also awful. We are becoming an entitlement society -- but it is the economic elites of ownership and management who get the entitlement. The rest of us get the responsibility to please those elites.
Donald Trump and the GOP majorities in Congress and most state legislatures act as if they want the Corporate State that Mussolini wanted, a political order in which economic and administrative elites are the entities that get representation. Anyone who believes that a dairy worker has more in common with the dairy-owner than with a cab driver is out of touch with the concept of the class struggle that comes to the fore when a capitalist system and the political order behind them go bad.
Donald Trump does more to make the Class Struggle relevant in America than has any Commie. He was a bad capitalist and is now an even more execrable politician.
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.