Related to this technique is the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis.
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Paul E. Scates sees what’s happening...
I’ve comitted that “source of community rights” argument to memory.
Thanks
Communitarianism was best posited by Spock in the Revenge of Khan: “Logic clearly dictates the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” Now the village changes your kids gender or grooms them for gay sex without telling the parent.
Communitarianism is communism by another name.
‘Intolerable acts’
(and death by 1000 little cuts)
Bfl
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
"Honest" ABE and FDR were handed crises that enabled them to lead and essentially operate political steamrollers. LBJ, like a power-hungry buzzard on a wire, lost patience and created crises...instead of waiting for them to come along he manufactured them. Thereby, setting the standard for Rat political strategy...
Covid proves it.
Underlying the promises of communitarianism is a rather pernicious premise: that collectives, i.e. the community, have rights that supersede individual rights; that for the good of a collective a member may be constrained. There is no real limit to this - to Hegel, one of the progenitors of Communism, the State, and not individual members, is the proper repository of not only rights but of all identity. Human beings become disposable parts of a greater living entity; the State becomes God. The entire purpose of constitutional restraints put on government power by the Founders was to avoid this reductio; the entire purpose of authoritarians is to embrace it.
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