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Now a conservative government. I bet something very different in 4 years or less (when these guys will be ousted in full force).
Things will continue to go down the drain with the next guys.
A military dictatorship in 5-8 years time?
The reactionary press is full of front pages calling the indignant action an "assault on democracy", and headlines comparing it directly to the 1981 coup attempt in Spain.
So, now, the reactionary right wing and the austerity party wrap themselves in the constitution as the indignants reject participation in the existing political structures (which means they don't want to attempt ---or have given up--- reforming the system).
This means things can only get worse. The right-wing Catalan nationalist president is already talking of "legitimate use of force" in response to the indignants. I fear the first Spanish protester to die in a clash with police is not far off. Then, all bets are off since the right will will close ranks to defend the established order. Economics is politics by other means
A lost generation to the statu quo is a new generation for true participatory democracy, of the sort first seen in the last decade of the 18th century (about which Chou En-Lai famously quipped that it is too early to tell the outcome), the excesses of which, to set us apart from the social democrats who have neutered the impulse and continue to do so today, we should embrace.
I suspect we will be to old to be but cheering spectators once the fun begins, and begin it will, in my lifetime. The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill
Plus, quoting Mao is probably a bit controversial hereabouts ;-)
Double plus, it's been so long I've diaried I've forgotten my html... The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill
Maybe that says too much about my character.
Primitive communities --> sin --> rapture/socialism -> heaven.
(I am mixing Marxist myth with Christian myth. Is there any real difference?)
The truth is: these human sociopathic diseases are very resilient from a time perspective. Clearly they have something for them. Everlasting, unmovable conservative fanaticism (by conservative I mean not changing your world-view one single bit - reality be damned!).
Maybe build in a bit more testosterone resistance in the males, a bit less fertility in the females. An aversion to meat protein, more of an ability to meditate on the beauty of the natural world.
It's coming. It's needed. Align culture with our nature. Ot else!
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