11-09-2016, 08:05 PM
(11-09-2016, 07:52 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(11-09-2016, 07:23 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Oh, by the way -- I expect America to become a grimmer, drearier, and more joyless place for those not already rich. That is how plutocracy works.
So basically nothing will change.
Not quite. It will accelerate.
I expect the Republican Party and the economic elites behind it to do everything possible to maintain power and leave any ideological alternative, including a humanistic liberalism, blocked out of relevance indefinitely.
In the end the pathology makes a socialist insurrection possible in the event of a crop failure (like global warming that isn't happening), an economic meltdown, or a war for profits going badly
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.