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In reply to the discussion: Why American and Britain are Self-Destructing [View all]ancianita
(36,030 posts)themselves of parasitism. What we have is worth keeping if it weren't so hard to fend off the stealth robbers in our so-called representative leadership.
It's not about people's honesty. The truth about ourselves is that we're not in this situation for lack of trying not to be.
Structurally, 'we' are 'represented.' For generations our representation has often MISrepresented our interests, which, if we're honest, we'd rid ourselves of if we were not lied to. Yet SCOTUS has declared there to be no law against lying. That's structural. "WE" didn't stand by and "let" that happen. We didn't enable SCOTUS to declare lying okay under 1A.
The honest effort of trying rid ourselves of the dishonest has gotten to be structurally disabling for us, leaving us with little to no recourse; and on top of that, it's become a full time job in itself.
Eventually, when dishonesty becomes the standard, honesty is subversive. There is no truth that hurts when the honest are labeled "domestic terrorists" and "enemy combatants" or "commies" and "socialists," or when they in no way stood by and, if was within their power, let the "gold make the rules." Power will never tell anyone how to undo it.
It's neurotic to let the powerful tell us we only have ourselves to blame, that we're not honest about ourselves. It's class war propaganda.