05-05-2017, 08:37 AM
People will simply be priced into quack medicine, if not more directly into the grave.
The Trump Administration, the Republican Party, and the lobbyists who pull the strings on Congress and most state legislatures, recognize only one guiding principle in American life: profit for the elites. They are realizing the Marxist stereotype of capitalism, one in which anyone not in the Master Class is expendable on behalf of people of great wealth and power -- but no conscience. The same elite typically demands selfless sacrifice by the masses on behalf of the ruling elite.
Except perhaps for organized crime (whose political affiliations are murky) that elite consists of plutocrats, rural and urban landowners, professional enforcers, and an executive nomenklatura. These groups successfully bar anyone unwelcome to their midst and tend to destroy alternatives.
The Trump Administration, the Republican Party, and the lobbyists who pull the strings on Congress and most state legislatures, recognize only one guiding principle in American life: profit for the elites. They are realizing the Marxist stereotype of capitalism, one in which anyone not in the Master Class is expendable on behalf of people of great wealth and power -- but no conscience. The same elite typically demands selfless sacrifice by the masses on behalf of the ruling elite.
Except perhaps for organized crime (whose political affiliations are murky) that elite consists of plutocrats, rural and urban landowners, professional enforcers, and an executive nomenklatura. These groups successfully bar anyone unwelcome to their midst and tend to destroy alternatives.
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.