04-14-2022, 11:24 PM
(04-10-2022, 10:54 AM)Anthony Wrote:(04-09-2022, 01:40 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The criminal case against the alleged plotters to kidnap the Governor of Michigan imploded. The Biden Presidency could be the eye of the hurricane. I expect to see more plots against elected officials who win elections yet violate the sensibilities of about 40% of Americans who think themselves the Real America or the owners of 80% of the assets.
Don't the 40% of Americans who think of themselves as the Real America actually own 80% of the assets - or more?
More precisely, the 2% of the people who own 80% or more of the assets consider themselves the only people with a right to rule, as has been so in many other times and places. They identify themselves with such prosperity as there is to the extent of being its sole cause. Such people eventually have often come to the belief that their command and control, even to the extent that the generous, purposeful, and efficacious application of the lash (even if only symbolic) is the sole means of getting the needed toil from peons and proles who fail to recognize the need for such guidance.
Such a pessimistic and even sadistic view of Humanity is completely incompatible with democracy, but it is consistent with slavery, peonage, and serfdom. Such people are in need of the intellectual and moral equivalent of an enema.
Much of the "real America" nonsense boils down to "whiteness", as if the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments did not settle that question once and for all.
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.