Professional armies attempt to dehumanize the enemy in order to make it easier for young, inexperienced soldiers to kill them without hesitation or regret. Armies usually accomplish this by citing the horribly uncivilized behavior of "the enemy." Ironically, the American public makes it easy for terrorists to kill without hesitation or regret by dehumanizing itself with routine displays of its own horribly uncivilized behavior. Here are a few of their stories.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Chicken Soup with a stunning Republican victory...
Keep a sharp eye out for that traditional Republican indifference to human suffering.
Paul Craig Roberts was a libertarian-ish founding member of the “Reagan Revolution”. He claims one of the initial intentions was to spread risk around the world thereby lessening effects of economic downturns.
Today he readily admits the whole thing was a disaster. I’m not a fan of his, but have to call a spade a spade. He underestimated the sociopathic bullies in corporate power. In the USA, they simply offshored everything that wasn’t nailed down to line their own pockets thus stagnating the earning potential of practically everybody else.
He believes many of today’s conservatives: “are brownshirts with the same low intelligence and morals as Hitler's enthusiastic supporters”. I tend to agree. Is there anything more “statist” or “socialist” or “government control” then a massive military that has an ability to spy on its every single citizen with advanced government controlled technology? Well today’s Republicans embrace such things.
Paul Craig Roberts was a libertarian-ish founding member of the “Reagan Revolution”. He claims one of the initial intentions was to spread risk around the world thereby lessening effects of economic downturns.
ReplyDeleteToday he readily admits the whole thing was a disaster. I’m not a fan of his, but have to call a spade a spade. He underestimated the sociopathic bullies in corporate power. In the USA, they simply offshored everything that wasn’t nailed down to line their own pockets thus stagnating the earning potential of practically everybody else.
He believes many of today’s conservatives: “are brownshirts with the same low intelligence and morals as Hitler's enthusiastic supporters”. I tend to agree. Is there anything more “statist” or “socialist” or “government control” then a massive military that has an ability to spy on its every single citizen with advanced government controlled technology? Well today’s Republicans embrace such things.