"a joyless existence, overshadowed by death and anxiety; human material for the authoritarian personality." herbert marcuse actually talking about martin heidegger's philosophy...but heidegger was a nazi and so it is germane__________one of the more noteworthy aspects of the current mid-term elections is how any and everyone is running a fear based campaign..that the trumpists would be whipping up as much hysterical anxiety as any of their fake news outlets can engender is not a surprise...the "progressives" are no better...and honestly this is no shock either...immigrants are going to take my job or congress will take my medicare...ms-13 will hack me to death with machetes or the government will become authoritarian...the government has always bee, if quietly, coercive and unafraid to employ violence when it feels threatened by substantive change from below which might threaten the elite's ( and the elite is the government...more there in a bit ) prerogatives to maintain and expand a base of wealth and power..have a look at how governments...local, state, national...dealt with labor activists be they anarchists, wobblies, or industrial unionists..leaving out nixon, macarthy, witch hunts, pumpkin papers, domino theories, black lists and a slew of other oppressions from the past...the government is one of special interests...not by or of the people...it just tries to keep quiet about it ( until some jerk like trump, who can't keep his mouth shut, gets into office and begins to highlight the disconnect )...which brings me to another point...the champions of "the street" are no less members of the elite who are playing the game by a somewhat different set of rules but still using fear as a base...warren is worth ( last figures i could find ) $18 million and pelosi has more money than ted kennedy did...they are generating fear for their own gain every bit as much as the trumpists...one wonders who is playing whom and what they are after..honestly the hysteria about a blue wave and the need to "take back" congress is bullshit...take it back from whom? and for whom? i have input in exactly two races for congress...i do not need to be propagandized about the cruz/o'roruke contest...waste of my time and theirs...except that it might make me more anxious and thus more easily manipulated...the media love consternation...sells advertising..moves goods...i will vote...i always do...i will vote what i think is the best alternative in a fucked situation..i always do because the system does not represent me...its priorities are elsewhaere.
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