It seems sadly obvious that most if not all of those who parrot the far-right's condemnation of the Progressive left as having a socialist agenda and choosing to embrace communism have little to no idea what communism and socialism are about. I suspect most of these corporatist acolytes are of an age and occupy a social category in which their working class parents provided them with a comfortable middle class upbringing as the direct result of moderate socialist influence on the U.S. Economy which came about because of the New Deal.
These pathetically ignorant ingrates are blind to the fact that the socialist influences which facilitated their middle class lifestyles have been and are being incrementally removed by an emerging corporatocracy which is dedicated to renewing the Robber Baron era by eliminating the middle class and restoring the Gilded Age. What is most discouraging about this cult of ignorance is in spite of abundant evidence of the systematic reversal of middle class fortune there are none so blind as they who will not see.
They proudly carry the executioner's axe to their own beheading.
Or, the Foundation of Statist Progressivism, being what it is, now altering the balance between itself and the Corporate Monopolies, it has been protecting, and conspiring with, and benefiting from, over the generations, want's for now, a bigger share of the booty, and later, all of it.
What exactly is the difference between a soft tyranny and a hard tyranny?
Answer: Time.
What is Tyranny really about?
Answer:Total Control.
Totalitarianism's greatest Threat?
Answer: Individual Voice, Witness, Testament against it.
How to defeat opposition? Confiscate property, possession, ability to provide. Discredit, Character assassination.
Answer: Time.
The difference between you and I is my axe is bought and paid for, yours is on loan. Further, the State cannot coerce my to do harm with it, without cause. I act as an Individual without compulsion. You can choose still, there is no substitute for purpose. There is no substitute for conscience, as offensive as that is to a Statist, it is the path to Salvation, something the State will not and cannot understand. Centralized control, one size fits all, is about surrender and conformity. Every injustice, that it is responsible for, every misstep, does have a cost. No construct, no mechanism, is of more importance, than it's purpose for being, or that which it was created to benefit or serve.
