[Noumenon]

...the political machines in California and New York are wrecking the states' economies and driving out successful residents. But the machines don't care because all they want to do is own the wreckage.

This author gets it. As I have said, these monsters - and they ARE monsters, every last one of them - would rather rule in hell as barbarians sitting on top of a stinking heap of rubble and corpses than leave the rest of us alone to live in peace. How can I say such a thing? It's because the same ideas that have animated recent history's totalitarians and mass murderers now have a happy home in the White House.

That distant thunder you hear is war. War is coming.

[MrB]

You got it...

Historically, leftists/collectivists have always killed their ideological opponents in mass.

You see the drive to do so in this group as well - they want to incarcerate, use the law to punish, and label their political opposites as terrorists and enemies of the state.

In fact they are correct. We ARE enemies of “THE STATE”, when the State becomes an oppressive entity whose only object is to reduce us to absolute despotism (to paraphrase the Declaration).

[Madame Dufarge]

"Similarly, Nazi leaders in Germany do not fear possible national economic ruin in wartime. They feel that, whatever happens, they will remain on top, that the worse matters become, the more dependent on them will be the propertied classes. And if the worst comes to the worst, they are prepared to sacrifice all other interests to maintain their hold on the State.

If they themselves must go, they are ready to pull the temple down with them."

From the preface to The Vampire Economy - Doing Business Under Fascism by Gunter Reiman, September 1939