A question on politics
Posted by coaldigger 7 years ago to Politics
How is it that a political party that espouses any, if not in fact all of the positions outlined below be regaining favor and likely to return to power in the next election?
1. You owe everything you have accomplished to those that have gone before and paved the way, so you have done nothing.
2. If you aren’t given free birth control or do not use it and become pregnant, just kill it.
3. The state should provide you with all essentials for life: food, clothing, shelter, transportation, medical care and whatever else you consider necessary.
4. You do not need to protect yourself, family or property because it is the states’ job and you can’t be trusted have any weapon because you might use it in some forbidden way such as posing a threat to the state or any person therein.
5. You must attend government schools to learn all the rules, the history and reason for the rules and the proper thoughts required to accept the rules.
6. The rules are relative and have no basis in law but can be changed at any time to adjust to political situations.
7. Anyone from anywhere should be able to come here, share in all of our benefits even if they can contribute nothing and may even be an enemy.
8. We have offended other countries in the past by being more successful, therefore we should apologize to them and make rules to reduce us to their level, which is only fair.
9. Thoughts that are not approved are evil, forbidden and expressing them deserves punishment.
10. Minorities are oppressed by the fact that they are fewer and therefore less powerful so the rules must be made to be in their favor so we will all be equal.
11. Goods must be produced to fill the needs of the people but no one should profit from doing so.
12. Everyone that does anything must do so in service to the state and any resistance to this requirement must be quashed.
1. You owe everything you have accomplished to those that have gone before and paved the way, so you have done nothing.
2. If you aren’t given free birth control or do not use it and become pregnant, just kill it.
3. The state should provide you with all essentials for life: food, clothing, shelter, transportation, medical care and whatever else you consider necessary.
4. You do not need to protect yourself, family or property because it is the states’ job and you can’t be trusted have any weapon because you might use it in some forbidden way such as posing a threat to the state or any person therein.
5. You must attend government schools to learn all the rules, the history and reason for the rules and the proper thoughts required to accept the rules.
6. The rules are relative and have no basis in law but can be changed at any time to adjust to political situations.
7. Anyone from anywhere should be able to come here, share in all of our benefits even if they can contribute nothing and may even be an enemy.
8. We have offended other countries in the past by being more successful, therefore we should apologize to them and make rules to reduce us to their level, which is only fair.
9. Thoughts that are not approved are evil, forbidden and expressing them deserves punishment.
10. Minorities are oppressed by the fact that they are fewer and therefore less powerful so the rules must be made to be in their favor so we will all be equal.
11. Goods must be produced to fill the needs of the people but no one should profit from doing so.
12. Everyone that does anything must do so in service to the state and any resistance to this requirement must be quashed.
Changing this from passive to active voice, it would read "someone has brainwashed us". I agree with everything else in your post about humans serving their master like sheep and waiting for a supernatural reward. But I don't think the default state was reason and someone brainwashed people. I think the collective sheep mentality is the default state for humankind. Maybe it had some selective advantages of allowing people to work as groups beyond their clan. I'm not sure about the cause, but I think it's the default state. With the industrial revolution, the value people could produce wasn't limited by arable land. People made huge leaps forward in respecting individual rights. A pre-industrial person would struggle to understand the average modern person talking having a right to change jobs, study for a different job, move wherever she feels like, without feeling obligations to god, kings, family, etc. Our society is far from perfect because of human frailties. Saying people are brainwashed implies they would naturally be consummate rational individuals if it weren't for someone skillfully manipulating them. It overlooks how far people have come.
I see humankind as having cast off a lot of brainwashing. We've come so far but have so far yet to go.
tion that these things should come to pass, but by putting government in charge of education. And it is rather sickening to hear people speak so fervently, and reverently, in favor of public education, even when they do not like the kind of public education that is being practiced nowadays. Just mention abolishing it, and listen to the cries of horror. But it is time to start advocating just that--abolition.
Welcome to the great awakening.
Asking how collectivist elements found their way into society invites empty political answers. The question is how we managed to overcome them and how we can get back on that path of individualism.
Hey, coaldigger, nice list! LOL!
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