That was just proto-MAGAs thinking out loud.
BarneyPiccolo
joined 10 months ago
Not the point. The assertion was that power comes from capital, and as wealthy as the Founding Fathers were, their wealth was NOTHING compared to what the British or French governments held. Being outnumbered by an angry violent mob is far more powerful than money.
And I don't think your statement holds with the French Revolution. The elites didn't launch the revolution, they lost their heads to it.
My point is that while capital certainly helps, it is not the only factor in the success of a revolution. America has nearly unlimited resources, and yet we lost both Vietnam and Afghanistan to guerilla insurgencies. Nearly all successful revolutions consisted of the powerful corrupt being crushed by their victims.
And not all revolutions are about giving more power to the people, many are just about kicking out the corrupt criminals who are exploiting the nation. They don't always expect that they will benefit with more power, they're just happy that people aren't being snatched off the streets, or tortured, or drafted into wars of economic opportunity, or starving, or the economy looted, etc. Most don't expect to have a say in who the leaders are, they just feel like they have to be better than the current psychopaths.
Power resides with capital,
No it doesn't, that's just propaganda to make us feel weak and controlled. If capital was all it took, then the American Revolution and the French Revolution would have been won by those with the most money, along with many other insurgencies throughout history.
There are many, many examples where those with money lost their power to those without.
Absolutely true, but all of that is just the marching orders from the leadership to keep the rubes occupied and distracted, while they fulfill whatever personal agendas they have, mostly stealing as much as possible, but also committing treason, getting their rocks off abusing people, and kissing their Fuhrer's stinky ass.
At their core, Conservatives are cowards, afraid of EVERYTHING: Democrats, Liberals, Minorities, other religions, other countries, poor people, women, women's private parts, gays, and anyone else who wants society to improve their lives.
Conservatives are fully satisfied with the way things are, and are terrified that any changes in society would be at the expense of the superior situation that they have created for themselves over centuries.
Their overwhelming need for control over all else has allowed corruption in every form to take root, and they feel far less need to end that, than their need to punish their perceived enemies.
So the result is the MAGA Party, whose primary function is to support the concepts of greed, treason, racism, corruption, incompetence, ignorance, intolerance, and pedophilia.
Only because we have abdicated our power. We can take it back.
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Midwesterner detected
Reading the Bible, I don't know how you'd come to any other conclusion but that God is a Monster.
Hey, America! You seein' this?
The only thing you can trust are your own Critical Thinking Skills, so start there. Don't fully rely on any media for your information Use them to identify the main stories (even that isn't reliable), and then consult original sources as much as possible - don't listen to what someone told you what was in a speech or a statement, go watch the speech or statement yourself. Don't listen to someone's interpretation of a poll, go look at the poll and decide for yourself. If you have to rely on the media for information about a story, consult several sources, and try to triangulate the truth.
It can be difficult, but at least you aren't relying on the Conservative Propaganda Machine, or whatever else Democrats think passes for messaging, mostly sternly worded statements. You are finding the information in as objective a state as possible, and creating your own narrative, not relying on someone else's, someone with an agenda that they want you to support.
The main problem with MAGAs is that they haven't had the most basic education, leaving them virtuosically ignorant.
Most kids understand the saying "Two wrongs don't make a right," by the time they are 10 years old. Their parents have taught them that just because someone else did a bad thing, does not give you permission to do the same bad thing, or another bad thing - "Al Capone killed people, why can't I?"
But the MAGAs are so ignorant, and so poorly raised by their Sociopathic parents, that they've NEVER learned that basic life lesson. Obama was going to do it (but was too scared of Republicans to try it), so it's perfectly okay for MAGA to do it.
No, if it was wrong for Obama, it's wrong for you, too.