11-09-2016, 02:13 AM
(11-08-2016, 05:24 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: The descendants of the faction that lost the Civil War plus some additional angry white working class newer adherents want CW2. They want that new war to overturn at least some of the progress made by people of color and other historically underrepresented groups. In addition they want to undo 100 years of Progressivism. That's why they talk about Civil War so much.
I'm not so sure. They are so grossly ignorant that they do not know the consequences of what they have voted for -- and they will not know those consequences until those consequences hurt them. Anti-intellectualism has never produced anything but tears and bloodshed.
Hurt them? How does that happen? Their leader starts a war for profit, and their kids come back in body bags. They find that without any recourse against the demands of their employers they work as is demanded under terms dictated to them -- toil as long as possible for near-starvation rations. And when the economy goes belly up we will have a leader clueless on how to make things better. He will only make things worse and fault us for failing to make his failures work.
America -- or should I say White America -- will have soon elected a corrupt kleptocrat and will find out how such a man operates as leader of their country, and with no consequences for misconduct because he has a compliant Congress behind him.
America, meet your next President Slobodan Milosevich... and what he said and did was no prettier in the original Serbian.
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.