How Will a Culture of Permanent War Impact America's Future?

[javaguru]

Amen brother....

A lecture by Doug Bandow.

 

[javaguru]

Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only person in the US not taking crazy pills and then I run across someone speaking truth to power.

 

[Mr. dB]

But the Koch Brothers love continuous war.

 

[-SD-]

It will make each succesive conflict have less of an impact than the last. Kinda like how i dont give a fuck about NK but when we first invaded iraq it was a big deal.

 

[-SD-]

But the Koch Brothers love continuous war.

So do all the politicians

 

[mrplunkey]

We'll always need someone outside to hate.

My guess is we're moving back to the model we've always had: An aristocracy, a merchant class and a bunch of peasants.

The political class (aristocracy) will always need an external villain to blame things on and rally the masses.

I think the circa 1776 democracy experiment has been winding down for about 50-75 years now. It won't go more than another generation or two in my opinion. When our forefathers wrecked the class system, society had continuous convection. We're undoing that convection now in the name of helping the least fortunate. It's so ironic, since the people voting them in are the ones who will be locked forever into the peasant class.

 

[javaguru]

But the Koch Brothers love continuous war.

How so?

I know they fund Cato and one of them ran as the Libertarian candidate for president around the 80's but that's about it.

 

[wootoom]

You need someone like Josef Stalin to straighten up your politicians...

 

[javaguru]

We'll always need someone outside to hate.

My guess is we're moving back to the model we've always had: An aristocracy, a merchant class and a bunch of peasants.

The political class (aristocracy) will always need an external villain to blame things on and rally the masses.

I think the circa 1776 democracy experiment has been winding down for about 50-75 years now. It won't go more than another generation or two in my opinion. When our forefathers wrecked the class system, society had continuous convection. We're undoing that convection now in the name of helping the least fortunate. It's so ironic, since the people voting them in are the ones who will be locked forever into the peasant class.

Unfortunately, xenophobia seems to be an evolutionary trait the political class have mastered. Religion was the first incarnation and then nationalism became the dominant tool for manipulating the masses.

 

[-SD-]

You need someone like Josef Stalin to straighten up your politicians...

Or Cohagen