11-28-2016, 09:18 AM
(11-28-2016, 08:11 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(11-28-2016, 08:05 AM)Odin Wrote:(11-28-2016, 02:46 AM)Galen Wrote:(11-27-2016, 11:20 AM)Bronsin Wrote: You know you're on the right side when the opposition is burning flags and mourning Castro.
Pretty much how I feel about it. I bet Castro had a pretty large body count.
Capitalism has a pretty large body count.
The Fascists, kings and other communist leaders also had a large body count. Just to compare and contrast, who doesn't have a large body count? The Eskimos live in a very resource poor environment. They have never had the surplus resources and population for warfare and genocide. There are other cultures in similar situations that haven't large body counts.
But to compare and contrast, would anyone care to suggest a few recent cultures or government styles that don't tend to run up body counts?
Bland liberalism, social democracy, and humane liberalism are much safer than absolute monarchy, Communism, fascism, Nazism, Ba'athism, mad despotism (as with Idi Amin), and military dictatorship.
The American body count results from the political power of a military machine, and generally reflects the flaws of our political practice. We still have checks and balances (and will until we end up with a single-party regime that subverts or abolishes those checks and balances); we simply no longer have a representative democracy.
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.