11-28-2016, 03:31 PM
(11-27-2016, 05:44 AM)Galen Wrote:(11-27-2016, 03:55 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Indeed, at just the time when there was talk about the need for someone other than the police to be social workers in poor communities, the people of Galen's persuasion are back in power and able to cut off social services and education even more. What the right-wing wants is for the poor and people of color to suffer, apparently. They want them to rise up, and get themselves shot and jailed by racist police. They are not satisfied with 40 years of national decline; they want more and more.
Not really, its just that government is so inefficient.
Sure, there are some things with which government is inefficient. As an extreme example, lynch mobs would be far more efficient than courts of law in dispensing punishment to offenders.
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.