They can and will reduce Western Civilization to rubble as long as they feel assured that they'll be the ones sitting on top of the rubble heap. For monsters like that, the slaughter of millions is not too small a price to pay. Rediculous, you say?
Remember Walter Duranty, Pulitzer Prize-winning 'reporter' for - wait for it - the New York times? Ralph Barnes, a New York Herald Tribune reporter, at one point turned to Duranty and asked him what he was going to write about the (Stalin-caused) famine occurring in Russia at the time. Duranty replied:
Nothing. What are a few million dead Russians in a situation like this? Quite unimportant. This is just an incident in the sweeping historical changes here. I think the entire matter is exaggerated.
Then there's Eric Hobsbawm, noted, celebrated British historian. He has been lionized as 'one of the great historians of our time'. In an interview with Canadian author and politician Michael Ignatieff on British television in 1994, Hobsbawm responded to the question of whether 20 million deaths [in the old Soviet Union] may have been justified if the proposed communist utopia had been created as a consequence by saying "yes."
Now, there is every indication that the power of the American State now lies in the hands of those whose pedigree of ideas includes not only excuses but the necessity for inflicting mass-murder, misery and slavery on a scale that beggars the imagination. None of these ideas are mere fantasy, as any of Pol Pot's, Mao's or Stalin's victims could attest. Except that they can't, you know. They're all dead.
Finally, let's get to the heart of what Obama and his ilk really want. Eric Blairs, writing as George Orwell back in the 1940's understood our present-day rulers' motivations all too well:
'Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution.
The object of torture is torture.
The object of power is power.George Orwell - 1984
The narrative here is “stick it to da man”. No more, no less. Doesn’t really matter who “da man” is or what he did to deserve the sticking. There has been 200+ (or more) years of oppression of all the usual victim groups. Blacks, gays, women, hispanics, muslims, third worlders, eco-nut-cases, you friggin’ name it. And they’ve been oppressed lo all these years. Now it’s there turn to do the oppressin’. I don’t think it’s any deeper than that.
Nevermind that in “righting these wrongs” the economy will be wrecked, the social fabric will be torn apart, the geopolitical balance will be upset, all that is immaterial.
What matters now is stickin’ it to da man.
This where we have arrived. And millions upon millions are saying Hallelujah cheered on by the drive-bys.