I came across this this morning while eating breakfast. Another person had posted this and thought was interesting. It’s a good observation of USSA
“The 2016 U.S. election proved that, even in a long-established democratic republic, just about anyone or anything, no matter how preposterously foul, can achieve political power if enough citizens are sufficiently credulous, cowardly, and vicious. In just the past few years, we have seen bland American neoconservatism rapidly evolving into populist, racist, openly fascist, mystical nationalism.”
No bias here. Imagine that he actually posted an op-ed in the NY Slimes. TDS, anyone?
Guess he didn’t get the memo that the “democratic republic” ended in 1933 with FDR as he handed us slaves completely over to the FED to be used as play chips on the world stock market.
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Hmm… the article raises a couple of legitimate grievances (like the government favoring plutocrats to the detriment of everyone else), but personally, I found it hard to read. The author’s self-assured, morally and intellectually condescending tone is a bit much for my taste. I thought his invoking Christianity was really rich too… he’d be more credible on that score if he showed a little Christian humility.
This guy would, presumably, advocate a socialistic government – with people like himself in control. Besides the fact that it’s too utopian to work well in the real world, the main trouble I have with socialism is that it necessarily replaces one oligarchy (like the plutocrats and financiers we have now) with another (the people needed to oversee the doling out of society’s goods and services).
Who would be in charge of any new socialistic / social-democratic operation? Well, people like this article’s author, of course: a “morally superior” caste of self-assured, yet often inept, intellectuals who are incapable of revising their beliefs in the face of new evidence because it never occurs to them that they might be wrong. In other words, we’d have an oligarchy of intellectual ideologues who, in general, have no idea how to make actual systems of production and distribution work in the real world.
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One set of idiots, replaced by another set of idiots;
while at the invisible tip of the power pyramid,
the puppet masters remain in overriding control.
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