If you leave people with a hollow core, some will go through life that way, but others will fill the emptiness with whatever toxic material they can find. For example, take “Taliban” John Walker Lindh and “Al Qaeda” Adam Gadahn.
In poker, sometimes you can bluff with no cards. But in real life, you can’t beat something with nothing. You can’t beat people who parade with the Mexican flag on Cinco de Mayo with people afraid to display the American flag. You can’t beat religious fanatics with people who insist on a “holiday tree” and “winter break” instead of Christmas vacation.
They say don’t bring a knife to a gunfight. And don’t bring bumper-sticker slogans to a culture war, either.
Excellent point, which would make socialism inevitably transitional, as its void would be either filled with communist/religiofascist totalitarianism, or (far more rarely, unfortunately) a rebellion for freedom.
They say don’t bring a knife to a gunfight. And don’t bring bumper-sticker slogans to a culture war, either.
Classic.