Posted on 12/15/2022 2:47:29 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
*snip* Totalitarian governments appear externally omnipotent even while they are internally incompetent. The complete mismatch between their propaganda and their capabilities breeds an even deeper distrust.
Instead of the people believing that everything is fine even when the wheat harvests don’t come in, nuclear reactors melt down and caucuses collapse, they accept both the evidence of their own eyes that everything is a mess and the propaganda that says the authorities know what they’re doing, and combine them into conspiracy theories that assume competence and bad intentions.
It is only when people finally realize the true incompetence of the regime that revolutions take place.
When political elites insist on their institutional competence and on monopolizing narratives to protect that illusory competence, they generate the conspiracy theories that create the crises of credibility that they seek to fight by monopolizing narratives. Instead of bringing into being a belief in their greatness and goodness, the combination of their corruption, incompetence and propaganda convinces the public to constantly read between the lies and assume that their incompetence conceals deeper conspiracies.
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bfl
So I can Read The Whole Thing.
Well now I just feel guilty for skimming.
Author is exactly right. Not that the common folk are the true repository of all wisdom, just that the ruling elite are no wiser or more competent than the people. The problems of human society arise from the flaws in human nature, and that never changes. There is no class of people not subject to it.
This is what we get when mentally ill people run society.
It is called the Constitution.
The problem is much deeper than that. The real problem, IMHO, is that we have an electorate that votes in these "mentally ill people". We now have a majority of the population that supports an expanding government and is willing to do so no matter what the cost.
Unless this changes, things will not end well
Are people suffering under totalitarian regimes really concerned about collapsing caucuses?
Do they even have those in totalitarian regimes?
Regards,
The left knows exactly what those things do to a nation’s spirit. That’s why they promote them.
You first have to get around the fact that it is the protections of the Constitution which have sheltered the communists as they now step forward to destroy the last shreds of the old regime.
It's going to take something very different from a Constitutional government to get rid of them.
Robert E. Lee in his post war correspondence with Lord Acton:
"I can only say that while I have considered the preservation of the constitutional power of the General Government to be the foundation of our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it."
which is the argument for limited government
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