The Perceived Need To Exterminate Jews Was A Shared Act Of Faith

The article below makes the case that the decade we have embarked will be as decisive is the 1860s and the 1930s and the 1960s.
What is new is that very powerful people --including the Koch brothers and Donald Trump (whether consciously or unconsciously) -- are well on the way to normalizing a brutal plutocratic winner-take-all (and the rest be damned) political and economic philosophy set forth and rationalized by Nobel laureate James Buchanan.
For Buchanan, property was everything, to be aggregated and defended against all incursions, particularly any mollifying end modifying tendencies motivated by kindness surety and altruism.
Buchanan's motto was: There are only two kinds of people, "the riders" and the 'ridden."
Ayn Rand on steroids.

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Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of AmericaNobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

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  His mantra was 'society should consist only of the riders and the ridden,' something first proposed by J.C. Calhoun in defense of slavery.
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    Alan Archibald

    
    

    "We" are reluctant to believe that Hitler and his fellows believed Jews should be exterminated.

    
    

    Or to paraphrase a southern saying: "The Jews needed killing."

    
    

    The extermination of Jews was an article of faith.

    
    

    It is important to keep in mind that any goddamn thing can be normalized - and, once normalized, "the new normal" will be honored... and even worshiped.

    
    

    A rather obscure French philosopher and political activist, Simone Weil, channeled a number of remarkable insights.

    
    

    The following observation extraordinary by any measure.

    
    

    http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/truth-justice-and-public-good-simone.html

    
    

    

    

    PAXONBOTHHOUSES.BLOGSPOT.COM

    
    

    Truth, Justice, and Public Good: Simone Weil On Political Manipulation, The Dangers Of “For” And “Against,” And How To Save Thinking From Opinion

    Truth, Justice, and Public Good: Simone Weil On Political Manipulation, The Dangers Of “For” And “Against,” And How To Save Thinking From Opinion

    
    

  
  
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