You cant be afraid of uprisings if you are not enslaving people. You dont get to be intolerant first while harming others then have an issue with others shutting down your intolerance via uprisings. You are fair game if you started the intolerance.
Thanks for giving me such a clear position to extend my comments from. What passes for conservative political economy today seems nothing more than a rationalization of the use of force to redistribute income more unequally and pretend that this result is merely some kind of universal law. As stated the argument goes like this:
1. If I have economic power I can use it to capture the political system and the regulatory organs of government. I call this "representative democracy".
2. I use this control to encourage monopolistic and monopsonistic combinations and suppress actual market solutions and threats of actual competition. Of course this increases and centralizes economic power. I call this doctrine "free markets".
3. I use political and economic power to counter any attempt to frustrate my ambitions through the ballot box. This is called "free (corporate) speech" and "protecting the integrity of the vote".
4. If there is any intellectual opposition to this corporatist system, I will use economic power to buy off sufficient "scholars" to muddy the scientific waters, control what gets published, justify my actions, and discredit those who disagree with me. This I call "academic freedom".
5. I create an ideology that denigrates public service, deifies unbridled greed and civic irresponsibility, and identifies public welfare with the exclusive interests of my class. I hire legions of hacks to promote these ideas in every forum available. I insure that opposing voices will be overwhelmed by my PR organs and that schools of law, business, journalism and the like teach this new ethos to the rising generation of professionals. This I call "higher education".
I have been so successful with this system that I only rarely need to bring out the goons, like in the old days, to bust up printing presses and union organizers, or have a few "educational" lynchings (deportation works so much better). I have convinced the common people to fight among themselves as their living standards deteriorate. This I call the "American Way" and despite massive evidence to the contrary, declare it the best and most righteous society in the world. That way, I label everyone who disagrees with me or has differing ideas of how to improve society as "UnAmerican".
And of course, this is the system ordained by God, or at least my friends in the clergy, and therefore is ungodly to protest.