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Primary driver of what?
Perhaps you are trying to make a complex process, and problem, more simple that it actually is.
Ayn Rand, in Dagny Taggart, was not afraid to use force when it was needed. Read Atlas Shrugged, Chapter X, "In the name of the best within us":
"Calmly and impersonally, she who would have hesitated to fire at an animal, pulled the trigger and fired straight at the heart of a man who had wanted to exist without the responsibility of consciousness."
He failed to choose. On his own.
I expect the best in people; not the worst.
The majority of the herd prefers to be led and told they are okay even when moving toward destruction. The paradox might be recognized by some but if the majority is accepting their slavery even those who recognize it for what it is will prefer to move with the majority than feel its wrath for being independent.
Perhaps the best we can accomplish is to search out others of equal morality and work with them, live parallel with the slaves and teach those that will learn.
Currently the 'system' is in control of so many aspects of the lives of the slaves that any attempt to move them toward liberty will be met with anger and violence. Even those that recognize one aspect where they want to be free accept slavery in every other facet of their lives. Trying to move them all the way to liberty is impossible.
The analogy I use is; they are deep within a maze that has no outlet and they are moving around thinking that they might be getting out. In reality they are keeping the hive alive without ever getting closer to liberty.
Being loudly vocal is a start, but only a start.
And I'm surprised too at the life this thread has taken on, but more than that, I am glad. It is needed. A wake up call maybe, to counter "woke" and CRT, and cancel culture.
Cancel the very culture that has reduced suffering in so many places? Will you settle for that? Cancel the culture that first and foremost produced electricity, the greatest discovery and use of a discovery since the taming of fire, where ever that took place? Along with so much else, especially where disease is concerned?
Are you not angry?
Money is a power tool, as Ellery Queen said in his great little mystery: "The King is Dead".
And one other thing. It is envy, avarice, and self-pity---emotions that should be mortal sins, but aren't---that produce the socialist response to success. Thoughts like "I haven't done as well as you because you have oppressed me, kept me down, you have done it at my expense". That's getting pretty old in my book.
There is no such thing as the "oppressor" and "oppressed" division in the social order. There is finger pointing and blaming others when it has been my responsibility alone for my "oppressed condition".
How does the control of worldwide resources, control of global trade and commerce, and control of international financial capital flows, by a few, fit into your view of events in America? Do you see a connection?
Leftists knew real Americans would not tolerate forms of Socialism and Communism, and yet their tendency to abide by the law is strong. So they had to "soften" the populace, to weaken their resolve. To "use their morals against them". (Saul Alinsky). To guilt them into voting for a black man, a Marxist, who was told he could always incite riots to prove any opposition to his (their) policies was racially motivated.
The Leftist/Liberals made being called "racist" the worst thing in the world. And yet have no real, nor actual definition of the word. Political correctness.
I wrote this in a comment on this thread:
The Democrats---Leftist/Liberals---cheated in 2012 (Eric Holder and the Black Panthers, and ACORN, and every other radical organization in America) and they tried to cheat in 2016 (Romney had done some of his own investigating after his "defeat" in 2012, so we were able to prevent it from happening again). In 2020 the overwhelming majority of Americans voted for Trump, and the trap was set. We knew Trump was the choice of Americans, so we knew they cheated.
We KNEW, Dobrien.
By the way, I suspect you are as angry as I am.
That philosophical concept does not bode well for either the able, or the needy.
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