Monday, December 29, 2008

Ingsoc lives!

7 comments:

My Frontier Thesis said...

His assessment of the Republican and Democratic parties (stated in bold at the outset of the article) is extremely agreeable, but his solution is delusional.

See, in his words, below:

My Frontier Thesis said...

In his words:

The corporate forces that are looting the Treasury and have plunged us into a depression will not be contained by the two main political parties. The Democratic and Republican parties have become little more than squalid clubs of privilege and wealth, whores to money and corporate interests, hostage to a massive arms industry, and so adept at deception and self-delusion they no longer know truth from lies. We will either find our way out of this mess by embracing an uncompromising democratic socialism—one that will insist on massive government relief and work programs, the nationalization of electricity and gas companies, a universal, not-for-profit government health care program, the outlawing of hedge funds, a radical reduction of our bloated military budget and an end to imperial wars—or we will continue to be fleeced and impoverished by our bankrupt elite and shackled and chained by our surveillance state.

Again, he's correct about Corporations today, and what the political parties are doing (and have been doing since they formed). But he's Quixotic to think concentrating all the power into one institution, in this case the government, is somehow going to "fix" humanity.

Arelcao Akleos said...

He's not "Quixotic", he's machiavellian. I'd make a strong bet that he's far more interested with the aggrandizement of State power than with the growth of economies, and that he knows full well what happens when human nature and concentrated power dwell together for any length of time.

Arelcao Akleos said...

In other words, I have far more trust in his belief in Socialism than in his concern for democracy.

Arelcao Akleos said...

In other words, he is directly from Planet Pepe

Tecumseh said...

As Palin says, You betcha!

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