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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Consider what is suggested by the OP in two current threads...
"Socialist regulators are killing freedom in America"
"A looming call for violent revolution against the wealthy is just and necessary"
Perhaps these over-reactionary tomes are what are driving people away from discussion here.
Gimme a fucking break! Why discuss such nonsense?
In the words of Arnold...."I'll be back" when the discussions return to practical political issues of the day. |
Yup....it isn't "nonsense" to create and conduct the stealth campaign financed for $!85 million by America's 18 richest families, to influence legislation to eliminate inheritance taxes......but it is "nonsense" to react to it by discussing it on a thread here.
I suppose that it is nothing to react emotionally about......because our "revolution" should always be conducted withing the "form", right??
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http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/revolutn.html
THE REVOLUTION WAS
Garet Garrett
1938
.....At the end of the first year, in his annual message to
the Congress, January 4, 1934, President Roosevelt
said: "It is to the eternal credit of the American people
that this tremendous readjustment of our national life
is being accomplished peacefully."
Peacefully if possible -- of course.
But the revolutionary historian will go much further.
Writing at some distance in time he will be much less
impressed by the fact that it was peacefully accom-
plished than by the marvelous technic of bringing it to
pass not only within the form but within the word, so
that people were all the while fixed in the delusion that
they were talking about the same things because they
were using the same words. Opposite and violently
hostile ideas were represented by the same word signs.
This was the American people's first experience with
dialectic according to Marx and Lenin.
Until it was too late few understood one like Julius C.
Smith, of the American Bar Association, saying: "Is
there any labor leader, any businessman, any lawyer
or any other citizen of America so blind that he cannot
see that this country is drifting at an accelerated pace
into administrative absolutism similar to that which
prevailed in the governments of antiquity, the govern-
ments of the Middle Ages, and in the great totalitarian
governments of today? Make no mistake about it.
Even as Mussolini and Hitler rose to absolute power
under the forms of law... so may administrative
absolutism be fastened upon this country within the
Constitution and within the forms of law."....
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dc_dux, consider the reaction of the masses in Stockholm , or in Paris, Berlin, or even in Tokyo, to awakening one day to find the state of economic inequality, and the trend toward even more of it.....which we currently look forward to, in the US. Would my post and the discussion that followed in my thread, really be that "radical"?
You apparently make your livelihood from the principle of "compromise solution" in national US politics in the US. If you haven't noticed, dc_dux, that principle and process had been pre-empted, bought out....it no longer exists, and it didn't as far back as 1933.
We experience a radicalized time of "takeover" by the rich. They've destroyed our unions by exporting the jobs out from under them. They never stop their endeavor for advantage, for control. They do this by any means neccessary, including by aggressive pre-emptive war. They play by no rules and resort to violence when it suits them.....but for us to talk about a critical mass, resulting from the success of their efforts.....is enough to drive you away from here, in protest? Who do you really serve, dc_dux?