An Offer They Can't Refuse
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Pity the kleptocrats; their position may be even worse than that of the French nobility during the reign of King Louis XVI. French peasants did not have an Internet and news media beaming nonstop images of the glitterati at their watering holes. A lesson from that time remains relevant: enrage enough people and all the king’s horses, guns, spying, and men cannot stop them. One day you’re partying at Versailles, the next day your head is in a basket. Today’s kleptocrats cling to their surveillance apparatuses, militaries, intelligence agencies, and police forces to keep the peasantry in line. None of it will not do them much good if the peasants revolt. No one has yet figured out how to stop a mob with nothing to lose, or prevent it from making the kleptocrats an offer they can’t refuse. That danger, not income inequality, poverty, global warming, or nuclear holocaust, is what keeps the kleptocracy awake at night.
Pity the kleptocrats; their position may be even worse than that of the French nobility during the reign of King Louis XVI. French peasants did not have an Internet and news media beaming nonstop images of the glitterati at their watering holes. A lesson from that time remains relevant: enrage enough people and all the king’s horses, guns, spying, and men cannot stop them. One day you’re partying at Versailles, the next day your head is in a basket. Today’s kleptocrats cling to their surveillance apparatuses, militaries, intelligence agencies, and police forces to keep the peasantry in line. None of it will not do them much good if the peasants revolt. No one has yet figured out how to stop a mob with nothing to lose, or prevent it from making the kleptocrats an offer they can’t refuse. That danger, not income inequality, poverty, global warming, or nuclear holocaust, is what keeps the kleptocracy awake at night.
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The greatest sin of the progressives working as Republicans and Democrats is the creation of the peasant class in America.
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Rudyard Kipling
Macdonough's Song
"As easy as A B C"--A Diversity of Creatures"
Whether the State can loose and bind
In Heaven as well as on Earth:
If it be wiser to kill mankind
Before or after the birth--
These are matters of high concern
Where State-kept schoolmen are;
But Holy State (we have lived to learn)
Endeth in Holy War.
Whether The People be led by The Lord,
Or lured by the loudest throat:
If it be quicker to die by the sword
Or cheaper to die by vote--
These are things we have dealt with once,
(And they will not rise from their grave)
For Holy People, however it runs,
Endeth in wholly Slave.
Whatsoever, for any cause,
Seeketh to take or give
Power above or beyond the Laws,
Suffer it not to live!
Holy State or Holy King--
Or Holy People's Will--
Have no truck with the senseless thing.
Order the guns and kill!
Saying --after--me:--
Once there was The People--Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, 0 ye slain!
Once there was The People--it shall never be again!
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One might call that a republican mantra.