As Hannah Arendt observed, a disciplined minority of totalitarians can
use the instruments of democratic government to undermine democracy
itself.
It should have been evident to clear-eyed observers that the Republican
Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a
representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or
one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century
Europe. This trend has several implications, none of them pleasant.
& to paraphrase Marcuse on the availability of a rhetoric of injustice or a political language:
After a riot of unbridled greed such as the world has not seen since the
conquistadors' looting expeditions and after an unprecedented broad and
rapid transfer of wealth upward by Wall Street and its corporate
satellites, where is the popular anger directed, at least as depicted in
the media? At "Washington spending" - which has increased primarily to
provide unemployment compensation, food stamps and Medicaid to those
economically damaged by the previous decade's corporate saturnalia. Or
the popular rage is harmlessly diverted against pseudo-issues: death
panels, birtherism, gay marriage, abortion, and so on, none of which
stands to dent the corporate bottom line in the slightest.
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