Posted on 09/04/2024 7:39:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The current unifying theme among a set of people who regard themselves as progressive, liberal, mainstream, respectable, and so on, is a spectacular punishment fetish. Arrest them arrest them arrest them arrest them, they helpfully explain about people who disagree with them about anything, ever. See, for an easy example of the discipline fetish, this quite popular reader-generated “diary” post from a few days ago at Daily Kos, arguing that Tulsi Gabbard’s “Quiet Skies” designation is a proper use of the state security apparatus against a domestic enemy:
It seems to this reader that our intelligence services are merely doing their jobs on this one. Given all of the terrorist horror that Putin has unleashed on the world, if Homeland Security wasn’t keeping an eye on people who meet Gabbard’s profile, I’d be deeply confused and worried. In any case, it seems that in Gabbard finally becoming a part of Trump’s team, the Kremlin is starting to put all of their rotten eggs in one basket and that should make things a bit easier for Homeland Security to do their jobs.
Underlying the teeth-grinding lust for a good firm application of the belt and the rounding up of domestic enemies is an attitude about authority that presumes the correctness of obedience and the proper absence of checks and balances. As Matt Taibbi noted yesterday, the Washington Post has just run a tech policy analysis arguing that social media executives have “thumbed their noses at authorities” — but the authorities are working to “bring tech giants to heel.”
Nearly every paragraph of this Washington Post thing contains extremely telling language, like the description of the brave judge Alexandre de Moraes fighting for democracy in Brazil by repressing platforms that tolerate the evil of dangerously unmediated speech, or the Eastern Bloc-flavored description of social media figures like Elon Musk as “impudent.” Note that, while social media leaders are being “brought to heel,” they’re also being “reined in.”
So the tolerant liberals are both yanking the leash and jerking on the reins, bringing the animals into submission. To protect democracy.
But to see the most striking feature of this fetish for unrestricted power, dig into this extraordinary essay at Salon:
While the wonderfully progressive dean of the law school at UC Berkeley proposes the elimination of the United States Constitution to protect democracy, Salon explains that other progressive law professors are just working on a plan to make sure the Constitution is always interpreted…correctly:.....SNIP
What about “Our Democracy! Our Democracy!”
and now you know how the nazis came to power
1. Legislation - first make it a law.
2. Confiscation - seize it because it's lawful.
3. Incarceration - jail those who protested.
4. Elimination - execute the protesters.
5. Cremation - burn the evidence of evil doing.
Outstanding essay. Thank you for posting it.
Just as long as you don’t use the term “nazi”..
All of that ideology is great, just as long as you don’t use the actual label.
“Our Democracy” = Our Rule.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27797441
The revolt of the elites and the betrayal of democracy Christopher Lasch
The Democrats want to rule over us.
They don’t want to govern.
They want to rule.
Why?
Because that way, they can steal from us more easily.
The sad truth is that Robert Reich is a little man who is upset that he is small.
The thieves just use him and his unhappiness.
NAZI is German for the National Socialist German Workers Party. In 1917 the Russian Soviet Republic declared that they were the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The People's Republic of China has declared that the socialist market economy is their economic system and model of economic development.
Democrats constantly make the same claims for the economic system that they supposedly stand for. Kamala Harris kicked off her “Fight For Our Freedoms” college tour by declaring that equity of outcome is what American society needs. When you look at the nuts and bolts of her platitudes... it is the same old game. Obama said he believed in the redistribution of wealth. In all cases these governments claim they want to take money from the rich and give it to the poor. So why is the Democrat Party getting so much support from the vast majority of billionaires and multinational corporations?
Just as long as you don’t use the term “nazi”..
Communists always used the word “Fascist” to describe the Nazis. That was so they avoided having to admit that Nazis were fellow Socialists.
The Left has morphed into Gubmint By Control Freak.
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