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Trickle Down Cruelty
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Trickle Down Cruelty
http://www.truth-out.org/trickle-down-cr...1310134880

Quote:But there is more at stake than an increase in the hard currency of human suffering and the theater of trickle-down cruelty; there are also disturbing signs that US society is moving toward an authoritarian state largely controlled by corporations and a grotesquely irresponsible financial elite.(30) A market-driven society is not synonymous with democracy and the privileges of the rich and the corporate elite do more to crush democracy than uplift society as a whole. Any society that allows the market to constitute the axis and framing mechanisms for all social interactions has not just lost its sense of morality and responsibility; it is given up its claim on any vestige of a democratic future. Market fundamentalism along with its structure of extreme inequality and machinery of cruelty has proven to be a death sentence on democracy. The time has come to not only demystify the authoritarianism inherent in casino capitalism and the political and institutions that mimic its policies, practices and values, but to rethink not only what a real democracy might look like, but also what it will take to actually organize to make it happen.


And fully half of the American electorate will gladly follow these corporate cocksuckers because the thought that the president is black is more important to them than the red-white-and-blue dick which is being shoved up their assholes.
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RE: Trickle Down Cruelty
I weep for this country, not because I am a nationalist, but because this trek towards totalitarian authoritarianism is completely self-induced.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Trickle Down Cruelty
One of the stranger side notes to all of this, is the veritable air of revolution that conservatives seem to insist exists in this country. Pass the laws, push the legislation and then stand at the very front and cry rebellion. Disturbing stuff.
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RE: Trickle Down Cruelty
(July 11, 2011 at 4:40 pm)Rhythm Wrote: One of the stranger side notes to all of this, is the veritable air of revolution that conservative pundits seem to insist exists in this country. Pass the laws, push the legislation and then stand at the very front and cry rebellion. Disturbing stuff.

That's how it starts.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Trickle Down Cruelty
Oh come on, this is not the first time such has happened.

If I recall correctly, while the Rwandan genocide was in formation and progress, a common tactic Republicans used was the "free speech" argument, which somehow made it A-Ok to call the opposing ethnicity cockroaches and for their subsequent extermination.

The common mongers of hate love to agitate, agitate, agitate. When things explode, they shriek "We didn't mean for that to happen".

A more recent example occurred after the shooting of Rep. Giffords by Laughner -- the discovery and outcry against the Palin infamous "Crosshairs" map over districts (with Giffords as one of the targets) was pulled and responded with a "Well, we didn't mean it."

Same technique from the anti-abortionists who use such rhetoric, then are "appalled" when someone blows away a doctor, as if their constant labeling of "baby killers" didn't contribute to the environment (the murder of Dr. Tiller by Roeder).

In psychology, we'd note this is the "diffusion of responsibility" backed up with malice, after all, they "really don't mean it" (with respect to causing someone to whip out a gun and start a "revolution"/"murder spree").
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RE: Trickle Down Cruelty
Greed is king in America. It is all about "me me me".

Greed will set citizens at each others throats and very much cause fighting and destruction of our social contracts.
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