10-24-2012, 08:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-24-2012, 08:40 PM by FireIceTalon.)
This is nothing new, reactionaries have ALWAYS been divorced from history and reality. It's just that nowadays, they are much more blatant and unapologetic about it. That being said, the GOP has moved so far to the right to the point that they are bordering on fascism, if they are not there already. Even before I became a communist I knew these guys were a bunch of fucking sociopathic crackpots. I think we should be thankful that they are finally being up front and honest with us about how they really feel. Because now they have no excuses.
Religion is the perfect tool for conservatives to center their ideology around, because all religions are intrinsically authoritarian and reactionary, so they go hand in hand with conservative agenda. The goal of conservatives (especially social conservatives) is not less government, it is MORE government, because they want to protect the interests of those who are privileged and rule society at the expense of those who are ruled. And to do that, requires bigger, not smaller, government. All one has to do is look at our history - whenever there were no nation states or governments, there were no classes either (which is the majority of time since the dawn of our species). These things only formed when class society was formed - which one came first is a matter of debate, but it doesn't matter. This is why I don't understand why all the CEO's and Wall Street hate Obama so much, he has done WONDERS to protect their interests. They are doing better than ever, while everyone else is struggling to make ends meet, and the oligarchs are still complaining.
Don't be fooled, the Democrats are really no better. They just want to put a human face on a volatile system.
Religion is the perfect tool for conservatives to center their ideology around, because all religions are intrinsically authoritarian and reactionary, so they go hand in hand with conservative agenda. The goal of conservatives (especially social conservatives) is not less government, it is MORE government, because they want to protect the interests of those who are privileged and rule society at the expense of those who are ruled. And to do that, requires bigger, not smaller, government. All one has to do is look at our history - whenever there were no nation states or governments, there were no classes either (which is the majority of time since the dawn of our species). These things only formed when class society was formed - which one came first is a matter of debate, but it doesn't matter. This is why I don't understand why all the CEO's and Wall Street hate Obama so much, he has done WONDERS to protect their interests. They are doing better than ever, while everyone else is struggling to make ends meet, and the oligarchs are still complaining.
Don't be fooled, the Democrats are really no better. They just want to put a human face on a volatile system.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)