(12-04-2017, 02:47 PM)David Horn Wrote:(12-04-2017, 12:01 PM)rds Wrote:(12-03-2017, 04:27 AM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: So , there you go. The Republicans have a vision alright,
#MAGA Make America Gilded Again. With all the worker abuse and pollution to go with it.
So, let the fireworks begin. I hope the economy crashes and takes Der Trumpenfurfur and his merry gang of GOP fuckwits with him.
The only things they specialize in are cruelty, stinginess and hypocrisy. The sooner this pack of animals masquerading as men are thrown on the dustbin of history the better.
Don't assume anything. We may be in this for a lot longer than we think. 2018 will tell a lot of tales. If the vote leans heavily white. male and older, it will prove that we learned nothing. Worse, we're already inured to a level of bad behavior we haven't witnessed since the ACW.
Indeed the only sure lesson of history is that corrupt elites do everything possible to entrench themselves in power and, to the extent possible, either corrupt their possible competition or opponents or obliterate those opponents. That is why rebels were broken at the wheel and witches were burned at the stake. The usual command of an oppressor is "Suffer for me, or die horribly!"
I can see the current bare majority in power in America resorting to mass murder to keep their economic and political power. They have crossed into the zone of infamy. That is why Stalin's courts so readily issued the sentence "ten years without the right of correspondence". The person receiving such a sentence was quickly shot with no ceremony or appeal. He certainly never corresponded with anyone after that, did he?
This President better resembles infamous dictators than any prior President of the United States in practice. This Crisis could give us an America with torture chambers, concentration camps, and sites of mass killings. This President better resembles Slobodan Milosevic or Ferdinand Marcos than any prior President of the United States. He4 admires dictators -- not even conservative leaders like Reagan or Thatcher.
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.