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=> Re: Immunity and Impunity in Elite America

Re: Immunity and Impunity in Elite America
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, October 26 2011, 2:26:24 (UTC)
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what will happen when we can no longer be fooled by think tanks, clever packaging....sound bytes, and outright lies? Fascism only works if you can lie to people and get away with it....that is unless you also have a harsh dictatorship.

What if we no longer fall for Jesus...or get blinded by appeals to morality and the family...or fears over crime waves and Mexicans, Gays and Socialists? These are all the ways politicians get into power and then do what they really got into office to do, which is to increase the money and power base of themselves and their class to the detriment of the majority.

Years back there was a real push in California to go after the state supreme court, mostly chief justice Rose Bird...she was presented as soft on crime. coddling rapists and the rest of it....she was finally driven from office and then as if by magic there were no more rapists and no more warnings about criminals coming to get us...actually the crime rate stayed the same.....but the whole thing was a deliberate distraction, a way to get rid of liberal justices who were standing in the way of industry and business interests determined to gut clean air and water standards among other regulations.....it had nothing to do with what it was supposedly about...but hell they couldn't come out and SAY they were after the regulations because we, the people, had voted FOR those regulations, we wanted them....so they got into power by calling on Jesus and warning us about the rapist next door...it was all supposedly about stopping crime and protecting our way of life, but it was really about big business and profits.

That's the challenge for Fascism in a democracy; how do you trick people into voting against their own best interests? And what happens when you can no longer fool them...when they are awake to your tricks and pretty desperate themselves?

...a coup?



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