Some time ago on Twitter, someone wrote:
"If you support Trump or his cronies in any way, you're a bad person."
So I replied:
"Agreed. So we should all favor the complete shutdown of the Fed, the military-industrial complex, and the IRS to starve him of resources and power. I'll sign you up."
Oddly enough, progressives don't seem to go for that!
Most of them have even been fine with authorizing surveillance powers for him, to the exasperation of Glenn Greenwald.
These people use the hashtag #Resist, yet it would never dawn on them to target -- or even think about -- the major institutions that empower the regime.
The #Resistance is entirely superficial, as we knew it would be.
Progressives can't really resist, because in their hearts they love the state, and can't even temporarily roll it back.
In general, politics brings out the worst and stupidest in people.
What brings out the best is commerce: giving your fellow man something he wants, so that he voluntarily chooses to acquire it from you.
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