12-07-2019, 03:14 PM
The center-Right? We hardly have one. We careen between a center-Left and a Hard Right, between Donald Trump and Barack Obama. The center-Right has its economic basis in small savers and investors who are barely net creditors, people who want stable prices but a strong-enough economic order that allows them to have reliable income that keeps people from having to dip into savings. The big creditors have relatively large claims against debtors... and those people are well to the Right. Think of aristocratic elites whose farm laborers were heavily in debt just to survive and got a settlement at harvest time: not enough to discharge their debt (so they would have to keep working in an unending cycle and eventually commit their children to the vile system). Pay, needless to say, was abysmal.
By the way -- little is more disgusting than a lynching. The last one of which I know involved a unit of the United Klans of America in 1981... a Klan group found a young black man to kidnap and murder by hanging. The crime was investigated, and in the end the fascist pig who tied the rope around the unfortunate Michael Donald and tied him to a tree would be executed in the Alabama electric chair. The legal system looks unsympathetically up-on people who take the law into their own hands.
Besides, if there is a Hell it is for God to decide who goes there. My idea of Hell, a place full of the most egregious sinners of all time (including Nazis and Stalinists) is a place to avoid. If anything, I hope that the Jewish concept of Heaven is true, and that the righteous of all origins go there.
By the way -- little is more disgusting than a lynching. The last one of which I know involved a unit of the United Klans of America in 1981... a Klan group found a young black man to kidnap and murder by hanging. The crime was investigated, and in the end the fascist pig who tied the rope around the unfortunate Michael Donald and tied him to a tree would be executed in the Alabama electric chair. The legal system looks unsympathetically up-on people who take the law into their own hands.
Besides, if there is a Hell it is for God to decide who goes there. My idea of Hell, a place full of the most egregious sinners of all time (including Nazis and Stalinists) is a place to avoid. If anything, I hope that the Jewish concept of Heaven is true, and that the righteous of all origins go there.
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.