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Trump Trainwreck - Ongoing diary of betrayal and evil
(02-09-2018, 02:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Deep state USA Graft and corruption, duplication, mission creep, complexity: do you have examples that would expand on your point?

We know the big things. Money rules politics, and Republicans protect this system. You know how the Citizens United decision went, and whose appointees voted for what there. The media is overly commercialized and not giving people any info.

I think there's always complexity in large systems. From my observation, the problem lies more in how people are voting. As George Carlin put it, average folks keep voting for people who don't give a fuck about them at all. People vote their prejudices, values and brainwashing. They keep settling for propaganda that trickle-down, hate-welfare economics actually works, when it doesn't. We have the government that we deserve. People have assumed that government and politics are bad, so why pay any attention? No, people need to pay attention.

If it takes the Deep State (Armed Forces, law enforcement, and the CIA) to protect our democracy, then so be it. They may not be compatible with a Salvador Allende, but  they seemed to have no problem with Obama.

People are going to vote for people who flatter their cultural values until the politicians who exploit such identity politics (Donald Trump won with vulgarity) hurt them. He's done practically nothing for the common man except to give a pittance  of a tax cut for which there will be huge deficits and perhaps a debt crisis that will lead to the  privatization of the public sector, monopolization of the private sector, and the destruction of any semblance of a safety net. Donald Trump stands for people with about the same level of morality as slave-owning planters who had the audacity to present slavery as a boon for slaves before the Civil War.

People pay attention to what hurts them. The Crisis is over when Southern whites vote for liberal Democrats as they did for Carter in 1976 and Northerners vote for liberal Democrats as they did for Obama. That is a landslide, and that can make all the gerrymandering  intended to distort representation in Congress moot. The homogenization of political life is a hallmark of the resolution of a Crisis Era.
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.


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Stupid is as stupid does... - by Ragnarök_62 - 04-05-2017, 07:54 PM
RE: Stupid is as stupid does... - by pbrower2a - 04-06-2017, 01:56 AM
RE: Stupid is as stupid does... - by Galen - 04-08-2017, 08:47 PM
RE: Trump Trainwreck - Ongoing diary of betrayal and evil - by pbrower2a - 02-09-2018, 04:00 PM

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