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Moonspinner's avatar

"uncritical obedience to authority, and conformity" -- decades now of diagnosing young boys as ADHD and drugging them with ritalin to get them to sit still in classroom chairs for hours on end, simply because they were normal, active boys and not as prone to sitting still and listening to the teacher drone on "like the girls did". It was the start of destroying/"disappearing" the natural differences of the sexes.

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Justarandomjohn's avatar

I hate this scamdemic. The one good thing that has come out of it is connecting to a community like this, and possibly more people will start critical thinking. I sent my kids to public schools in Canada and watching this unfold, I will try to influence home schooling for my grandkids. Yes, the aim of government is to breed easily governable masses, and that is why such draconian measures are being unleashed against those who cannot be coerced; it is punishment for critical thinkers.

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David Watson's avatar

Indoctrinating children has been standard tactic for every communist regime. We'll be next unless we fix the failed education system. Spectator sports have been a tool for despots back to the fall of Rome. Bread and circuses molifies the ignorant. Competent people don't fall for it. But we'll have to convince the slaves, or they'll side with the tyrant.

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streamfortyseven's avatar

Make that "every totalitarian regime", the Nazis were *extremely* good at it...

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

Yeah it's getting tiring when people label it as communist. Umm, we have it even worse, where one can go bankrupt due to medical bills. State corporatism, aka fascism is what the globalists want.

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streamfortyseven's avatar

The term I use is "state capitalism" - or sometimes "corporatism" or "Fascism", the term invented and used by Mussolini:

"The Corporate State and its Organization (p. 133), in Benito Mussolini, 1935, Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions, Rome: ‘Ardita’ Publishers.

The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management. (pp. 135-136)"

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This is the system of "public-private partnerships" as proposed by and implemented by Xi Jinping, and advocated for by Klaus Schwab and the Davos crowd.

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"The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State–a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values–interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people. (p. 14)

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere. (p. 32)

The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State. (p. 41)."

Benito Mussolini, 1935, The Doctrine of Fascism, Firenze: Vallecchi Editore.

"In conclusion, let us ask ourselves: can Corporatism be applied to other countries? We are bound to ask ourselves this because the same question is being asked in all countries where efforts are made to study and to understand this problem.

There is no doubt that, in view of the general crisis of capitalism, the Corporate solution will force itself to the fore everywhere, but if the system is to be carried out fully, completely, integrally, revolutionarily, three conditions are required.

A single political party, in order that political discipline may exist alongside of economic discipline and that the bond of a common fate may unite everyone above contrasting interests. Nor is this enough. Besides the single political party there must be a totalitarian State, a State which by absorbing the energy, interests, and aspirations of the people, may transform and uplift them.

But even this is not enough. The third and last and most important condition is to live in an atmosphere of strong ideal tension."

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If you look at nearly every country in Europe and also including Russia, China, and the US - there is either a single de jure (China) or de facto (the rest) political party. Like the Democrats and Republicans in the US, or Labour and Conservatives in the UK, there may be a nominal grouping of parties with opposing rhetoric, but the actual enacted policy set out by each is identical.

"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps of the Right, and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. The policies that are vital and necessary for America are no longer subjects of significant disagreement, but are disputable only in terms of procedure, priority and method." Tragedy and Hope, Quigley, 1965, at http://www.benespen.com/journal/2014/7/24/the-long-view-tragedy-and-hope.html

And this is what we have - US policy since at least 1980 has been overtly neoliberal - which is opposed to classical liberalism and the ideas set out in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. And the Davos crowd and Klaus Schwab are equally opposed, the policies they advocate are an abrogation of the Bill of Rights.

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