Can't remember anything at all Flamed trees lie in the streets
Can't remember anything at all
But I'm driving my car down to Geneva
I've been sitting in my basement patio
Aye, it was hot
Up above, girls walk past, roses all in bloom
Have you ever heard about the Higgs Boson blues
I'm goin' down to Geneva baby, gonna teach it to you
Who cares, who cares what the future brings?
Black road long and I drove and drove
Came upon a crossroad
The night was hot and black
I see Robert Johnson
With a ten dollar guitar strapped to his back
Lookin' for a tune
Well here comes Lucifer
With his cannon law And a hundred black babies runnin' from his genocidal Joe
He got the real killer groove
Robert Johnson and the devil man
Don't know who's gonna rip off who Driving my car, flame trees on fire
Sitting and singin' the Higgs Boson blues
I'm tired, I'm lookin' for a spot to drop
All the clocks have stopped in Memphis now
And in the rain motel it's hot, it's hot
That's why they call it the Hot Spot
I take a room with a view
Hear a man preaching in a language that's completely new, yeah
Making the hot cocks in the flop house bleed
While the cleaning ladies sob into their mops
And the bell ho-hops and bops
A shot rings out to a spiritual groove Everybody bleeding, to the Higgs Boson blues
And if I die now
Bury me in my favorite yellow patent leather shoes
With a mummified cat, and a hat
That the Caliphate forced on the Jews
Can you feel my heartbeat, can you feel my heartbeat
Hannah Montana, does the African savannah, as the simulated rainy season begins
She curses the cue with the Zulu
And moves onto Amazonia, cries with the dolphins
Mau mau ate the pygmy, the pygmy ate the monkey
The monkey has a gift that keeps sending back to you
Look, here comes the missionary, with his smallpox and flu
He's saving them savages, with his Higgs Boson blues
I'm driving my car down to Geneva
I'm driving my car down to Geneva
Aw, let the damn day break
Rainy days always make me sad
Miley Cyrus floats in a swimming pool in Taluka Lake
And you're the best girl I ever had
Can't remember anything at all
Another danger is lurking besides the current viral pandemic case load increases, and it is directly related to it.
The danger is that millions of people may not be able to vote because they will be homeless and/or out of work.
They may become so stressed that voting will be the last thing on their mind:
20 Million Renters Are at Risk of Eviction; Policymakers Must Act Now to Mitigate Widespread Hardship
"Across the country, renters and tenants advocates are sounding the alarm about the coming eviction crisis, referring to it as an avalanche or tsunami. Over the past five months, more than 44 million Americans have filed for unemployment amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As the recession continues, economic stimulus payments are spent, and expanded Unemployment Insurance expires, many of these displaced workers will be unable to make housing payments.
Mass evictions would be a disaster. For both individuals and families, evictions result in severe harm; when they become widespread, there are also significant consequences for entire communities and even the speed of economic recovery. Policymakers are actively seeking solutions, but it is difficult to prepare without knowing the size of the problem.
The COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project (CEDP) was formed to solve that problem. It is a coalition of economic researchers and legal experts who developed a model to estimate eviction risk nationally and at the state level. The disturbing result: 19 to 23 million, or one in five of the 110 million Americans who live in renter households, are at risk of eviction by September 30, 2020."
(The Aspen Institute). It may be bad for homeowners too in the sense of foreclosures, depending on the governments' (federal and state) response.
They are cruel enough to lock up children and rip them from the arms of their parents, cruel enough to weakly respond to the Covid-19 crisis, and cruel enough to encourage stress syndrome conditions then suppress the vote.
In this series (which I suspect has been seen as hyperbole by those who are infected with the "it can't happen here cognitive virus") the issue of the effects of disobeying or ignoring the wisdom and understanding of our founders has been considered.
One post in the series went so far as to list vast amounts of military war equipment that was being sent to every state and county around the country (Will The Military Become The Police? - 10, September 9, 2014).
All that was missing, in terms of using that equipment against protestors, was the good judgment of officials in states, counties, the military, and the White House.
That may no longer be the case:
"He specifically called on governors across the country to deploy the National Guard and vowed to deploy the U.S. military if states refused to comply. 'Mayors and governors must establish an overwhelming law enforcement presence ['domination'] until the violence has been quelled,' Trump said."
The military's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff marched along behind the president, together with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense.
The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.
Read up on The Reichstag Fire metaphor and some words from the inside:
"We spend more on national security than the rest of the world combined ..."
"The Military is the lead federal agency on climate change ... and that is ... extremely dangerous ... we may lose the republic ..." - Professor Wilkerson (video)
The degree to which a Whistleblower in the U.S. government is mistreated is directly related to the degree of corruption that been established within that government (Quotes).
In the first post of this series the essence of this concept in its original form was pointed out:
On July 30, 1778, the Continental Congress created the first whistleblower protection law, stating “that it is the duty of all persons in the service of the United Statesto give the earliest information to Congress or other proper authority of any misconduct, frauds, or misdemeanors committed by any officers or persons in the service of these states.”
"The Limits of Current Federal Employee Whistleblower Protections Most federal employees who are retaliated against for speaking up and blowing the whistle have just a single avenue to find justice. That remedy can be found at the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). The MSPB, whose three Board members are appointed by the President and confirms by the Senate, reviews the whistleblower cases of federal employees, and makes the final determination. As a result, most federal employees do not have the avenue for redress that some other federal employees, and all private sector workers, have – and that many Americans would assume that federal employees do have. Federal employees cannot currently have their whistleblower cases heard in federal district court. That means that these employees cannot appeal to a court for justice; only a single administrative law judge, or at most the three-person panel of the MSPB, can make a decision on their case. There are no options for federal court access, and certainly no hope of having a jury of their peers."
(National Whistleblower Center, emphasis added). The saying "you've come a long way baby" does not apply in the same way as it was intended, because in terms of Whistleblower rights, we have gone a long way down the wrong way.
This is the direction that Thomas Jefferson indicated all governments travel in, unless among other things, the power originally lodged in Whistleblowers prevents it:
“Experience has shown that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
At this time a Whistleblower event is the talk of the town in D.C. because it involves high-ups and cover-ups:
"Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson determined that the complaint was credible and troubling enough to be considered a matter of “urgent concern,” a legal threshold that requires notification of congressional oversight committees. But acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire has refused to share details about Trump’s alleged transgression with lawmakers, touching off a legal and political dispute that has spilled into public view and prompted speculation that the spy chief is improperly protecting the president."
(Washington Post). A former acting Solicitor General, Neal Katyal, @ Twitter wrote: "This is going to be huge. DOJ& Admin are contorting themselves backwards to try to hide this. Truth will come out. There are probably tapes and transcripts documenting a gross abuse of power by Trump. Gonna be ugly.And enablers should all face consequence."
III. Update
The Ukraine government did an investigation years ago into the issues that "America's Mayor" (Rudy Poot) brought up recently:
"What it does not need is underinformed dinosaurs wading into its sensitive political ecosystem to make points for domestic American consumption. Unfortunately, this is precisely what is now happening — thanks to President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani [Rudy Poot].
The trouble began when right-wing bloggers sought to meld these two points into a single conspiracy in which Joe Biden had the prosecutor sacked to protect his son’s business interests. I may be an outsider to the bewildering mess that is Ukrainian politics, but, on this particular issue, I have a genuine insight into what happened, having written extensively about Hunter Biden’s ex-employer, Mykola Zlochevsky. As a result, when journalists seek the fire behind the smoke in the Biden-Ukraine tale, they often call to ask my opinion. Many are eager to flesh out what seems a satisfyingly simple conspiracy, but I have to tell them: It isn’t true. The timeline doesn’t work. The investigation into Burisma, Hunter Biden’s employer, had ground to a halt long before the prosecutor was sacked. A subsequent probe into the company’s owner was opened because of a request from Ukrainian legislators, not because of prosecutorial initiative. There is, in short, no there there; the bloggers are putting two and two together — and coming up with 22."
Another news source indicates that it is worse than that, it is an attempt to have the state victim fabricate a false story:
"So Trump didn’t press Zelensky to investigate Biden–he used the power of his office to extort the newly elected Ukrainian leader to fabricate a controversy about a domestic political opponent."
(Raw Story, emphasis added). When things get "worst," the degrees of the political evil eventually become irrelevant, so I only mention this source because it nails down the nuances of this wrongdoing to a fine degree.
This Dredd Blog series has been pointing out the history of nationalism, militarism, and the tyranny of a despotic minority that has brought down over twenty civilizations down through time.
One factor that has been focused on is "tyranny" which is another word for "cruelty."
As it turns out, perhaps one of the least expected sources of cruelty being revealed is a "religious" source not at all associated with terrorism (Atlantic, RawStory).
In today's post I want to point out that the American government as set up by the U.S. Constitution is not fail safe, because it has some serious undemocratic aspects to it that at this point in our nation's history is unlikely to be remedied.
II. A Predicament
According the the last census of 2010, the 22 "Red States" that are home to a lot of current right wing religion and politics, as shown by the table below, make up only 31.42% of the population of the 50 states.
Yet they are given two senators each, totaling 44% of the U.S. Senate:
Red States
Population
Rank
Population
Census 2010
Population
Percent
Senate
Percent
Wyoming
50
0.563626 mil
0.17
2
Alaska
48
0.710231 mil
0.39
4
North Dakota
47
0.672591 mil
0.62
6
South Dakota
46
0.81418 mil
0.89
8
Montana
43
0.989415 mil
1.21%
10%
Idaho
39
1.56758 mil
1.74
12
West Virginia
38
1.85299 mil
2.29
14
Nebraska
37
1.82634 mil
2.87
16
Kansas
35
2.85312 mil
3.75
18
Mississippi
34
2.9673 mil
4.65%
20%
Arkansas
33
2.91592 mil
5.56
22
Utah
30
2.76389 mil
6.52
24
Oklahoma
28
3.75135 mil
7.71
26
Kentucky
26
4.33937 mil
9.06
28
Louisiana
25
4.53337 mil
10.47%
30%
Alabama
24
4.77974 mil
11.95
32
South Carolina
23
4.62536 mil
13.49
34
Missouri
18
5.98893 mil
15.34
36
Tennessee
16
6.3461 mil
17.39
38
Arizona
14
6.39202 mil
19.56%
40%
Georgia
8
9.68765 mil
22.74
42
Texas
2
25.1456 mil
31.42%
44%
Total
96.0866 mil
III. Another Predicament
Now, let's look at the whole population, all states, and the entire population so as to see that a remedy is not within our grasp at this time.
The table below (per 2010 Census) shows that 1.08% of the population elects 10% of the senate, 2.82% of the population elects 20% of the senate, 5.54% of the population elects 30% of the senate, 10.1% of the population elects 40% of the senate, 15.95% of the population elects 50% of the senate, 23.8% of the population elects 60% of the senate, and 33.31% of the population elects 70% of the senate (and so forth):
State
(R=Red State)
Population
Rank
Population
Census 2010
Population
Percent
Senate
Percent
Wyoming (R)
50
0.563626 mil
0.17
2
Vermont
49
0.625741 mil
0.36
4
Alaska (R)
48
0.710231 mil
0.58
6
North Dakota (R)
47
0.672591 mil
0.81
8
South Dakota (R)
46
0.81418 mil
1.08%
10%
Delaware
45
0.897934 mil
1.37
12
Rhode Island
44
1.05257 mil
1.69
14
Montana (R)
43
0.989415 mil
2.01
16
Maine
42
1.32836 mil
2.41
18
New Hampshire
41
1.31647 mil
2.82%
20%
Hawaii
40
1.3603 mil
3.25
22
Idaho (R)
39
1.56758 mil
3.78
24
West Virginia (R)
38
1.85299 mil
4.33
26
Nebraska (R)
37
1.82634 mil
4.91
28
New Mexico
36
2.05918 mil
5.54%
30%
Kansas (R)
35
2.85312 mil
6.42
32
Mississippi (R)
34
2.9673 mil
7.32
34
Arkansas (R)
33
2.91592 mil
8.23
36
Nevada
32
2.70055 mil
9.15
38
Iowa
31
3.04636 mil
10.1%
40%
Utah (R)
30
2.76389 mil
11.06
42
Connecticut
29
3.5741 mil
12.14
44
Oklahoma (R)
28
3.75135 mil
13.33
46
Oregon
27
3.83107 mil
14.6
48
Kentucky (R)
26
4.33937 mil
15.95%
50%
Louisiana (R)
25
4.53337 mil
17.36
52
Alabama (R)
24
4.77974 mil
18.84
54
South Carolina (R)
23
4.62536 mil
20.38
56
Minnesota
22
5.30392 mil
22.08
58
Colorado
21
5.0292 mil
23.8%
60%
Wisconsin
20
5.68699 mil
25.56
62
Maryland
19
5.77355 mil
27.39
64
Missouri (R)
18
5.98893 mil
29.24
66
Indiana
17
6.4838 mil
31.26
68
Tennessee (R)
16
6.3461 mil
33.31%
70%
Massachusetts
15
6.54763 mil
35.4
72
Arizona (R)
14
6.39202 mil
37.57
74
Washington
13
6.72454 mil
39.85
76
Virginia
12
8.00102 mil
42.43
78
New Jersey
11
8.79189 mil
45.12%
80%
Michigan
10
9.88364 mil
48.14
82
North Carolina
9
9.53548 mil
51.28
84
Georgia (R)
8
9.68765 mil
54.46
86
Ohio
7
11.5365 mil
57.99
88
Illinois
6
12.8306 mil
61.84%
90%
Pennsylvania
5
12.7024 mil
65.71
92
New York
4
19.3781 mil
71.62
94
Florida
3
18.8013 mil
78.06
96
Texas (R)
2
25.1456 mil
86.74
98
California
1
37.2545 mil
98.7%
100%
USA
308.144 mil
IV. Population Estimates For 2018
The table below (population estimates for 2018) shows that 1.09766% of the population elects 10% of the senate, 2.86874% of the population elects 20% of the senate, 5.62715% of the population elects 30% of the senate, 10.2532% of the population elects 40% of the senate, 16.176% of the population elects 50% of the senate, 24.1214% of the population elects 60% of the senate, and 33.7532% of the population elects 70% of the senate (and so forth):
State
Population
Rank
Population
2018 Est.
Percent of
Population
Percent of
Senate
Wyoming
50
0.577737 mil
0.176968%
2%
Vermont
49
0.626299 mil
0.368811%
4%
Alaska
48
0.737438 mil
0.594697%
6%
North Dakota
47
0.760077 mil
0.827517%
8%
South Dakota
46
0.882235 mil
1.09776%
10%
Delaware
45
0.967171 mil
1.39401%
12%
Rhode Island
44
1.05732 mil
1.71788%
14%
Montana
43
1.06231 mil
2.04328%
16%
Maine
42
1.3384 mil
2.45324%
18%
New Hampshire
41
1.35646 mil
2.86874%
20%
Hawaii
40
1.42049 mil
3.30386%
22%
Idaho
39
1.75421 mil
3.84119%
24%
West Virginia
38
1.80583 mil
4.39434%
26%
Nebraska
37
1.92927 mil
4.98529%
28%
New Mexico
36
2.09543 mil
5.62715%
30%
Kansas
35
2.91151 mil
6.51898%
32%
Mississippi
34
2.98653 mil
7.43379%
34%
Arkansas
33
3.01383 mil
8.35695%
36%
Nevada
32
3.03439 mil
9.28642%
38%
Iowa
31
3.15614 mil
10.2532%
40%
Utah
30
3.16111 mil
11.2215%
42%
Connecticut
29
3.57267 mil
12.3158%
44%
Oklahoma
28
3.94308 mil
13.5236%
46%
Oregon
27
4.19071 mil
14.8073%
48%
Kentucky
26
4.4684 mil
16.176%
50%
Louisiana
25
4.65998 mil
17.6034%
52%
Alabama
24
4.88787 mil
19.1006%
54%
South Carolina
23
5.08413 mil
20.658%
56%
Minnesota
22
5.61118 mil
22.3767%
58%
Colorado
21
5.69556 mil
24.1214%
60%
Wisconsin
20
5.81357 mil
25.9021%
62%
Maryland
19
6.04272 mil
27.7531%
64%
Missouri
18
6.12645 mil
29.6297%
66%
Indiana
17
6.69188 mil
31.6795%
68%
Tennessee
16
6.77001 mil
33.7532%
70%
Massachusetts
15
6.90215 mil
35.8674%
72%
Arizona
14
7.17165 mil
38.0642%
74%
Washington
13
7.53559 mil
40.3724%
76%
Virginia
12
8.51769 mil
42.9815%
78%
New Jersey
11
8.90852 mil
45.7103%
80%
Michigan
10
9.99592 mil
48.7721%
82%
North Carolina
9
10.3836 mil
51.9527%
84%
Georgia
8
10.5195 mil
55.175%
86%
Ohio
7
11.6894 mil
58.7556%
88%
Illinois
6
12.7411 mil
62.6583%
90%
Pennsylvania
5
12.8071 mil
66.5813%
92%
New York
4
19.5422 mil
72.5673%
94%
Florida
3
21.2993 mil
79.0915%
96%
Texas
2
28.7018 mil
87.8832%
98%
California
1
39.557 mil
100%
100%
USA
326,465,000
Of course that assumes that every one of those members of the population votes (see how optimistic I am sometimes).
The point I am making is that this is not the definition of a democracy in the pure, functional sense: "government by the people; especially : rule of the majority" (Dictionary).
The population in a state with 500,000 people gets the same number of senators as a state with ~40,000,000 people.
This means that the low population states can more easily control the senate, and thus the cabinets and the courts (Here Come De Conservative Judges, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).
And as goes the Supremes, so goes the nation ("the constitution says what the Supreme Court says it says" - paraphrase, see Harvard Law Review).
The Senate decides who can go on the Supreme Court, and who cannot.
See the problem?!
V. Closing Comments
The tyranny of the despotic minority is here, and the odds are that it is here to stay?
The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.
Ode to The Rus People:
Quichotte is a member of the "Q" who wants to elevate himself way, way up into a better trance (Choose Your Trances Carefully, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).
To do so he must please The Chosen One, the “wholly imaginary chief executive who was obsessed by cable news, who pandered to a white supremacist base” and then he must find his mystical mate (hiding somewhere inside Shape Shifter member The ConWay).
After that, the jig is up because doing nothing for anyone but yourself is facing extinction in the Swamp of swamps, home of The Banners galore.
He is sure that The Don will make him famous as he did "The Mooch," "The Lawgiver I (who lives in the Alabama struck down by Dorian)," and "The Lawtaker Willie Low Bar" who removed law from the Just Us Department.
Avoid the rush, get the book before the election.
The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.
The Trump Administration withdrew from the traditional U.S. involvement in the promulgation of the concept and practice of human rights:
"The strong civil society and democratic institutions of the United States were tested in the first year of the administration of President Donald Trump. Across a range of issues in 2017, the US moved backward on human rights at home and abroad. Trump has targeted refugees and immigrants, calling them criminals and security threats; emboldened racist politics by equivocating on white nationalism; and consistently championed anti-Muslim ideas and policies. His administration has embraced policies that will roll back access to reproductive health care for women; championed health insurance changes that would leave many more Americans without access to affordable health care; and undermined police accountability for abuse. Trump has also expressed disdain for independent media and for federal courts that have blocked some of his actions. And he has repeatedly coddled autocratic leaders and showed little interest or leadership in pressing for the respect of human rights abroad."
(Human Rights Watch, emphasis added). The Trump Administration is at odds with traditional American values.
Meanwhile, the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security condemned the human rights violations taking place on American soil:
Caged Asylum Seekers
More Caged Asylum Seekers
"During our visits to five Border Patrol facilities and two ports of entry ... we ... observed serious overcrowding and prolonged detention of unaccompanied alien children (UACs), families, and single adults that require immediate attention.
...
This management alert addresses overcrowding at four of the five Border Patrol facilities, and prolonged detention at all five facilities, we visited in the Rio Grande Valley.
...
In the Border Patrol facilities we visited, we also observed serious overcrowding and prolonged detention among adult detainees. TEDS provides that 'under no circumstances should the maximum [cell] occupancy rate, as set by the fire marshal, be exceeded.' However, at one facility, some single adults were held in standing room only conditions for a week and at another, some single adults were held more than a month in overcrowded cells ..."
(DHS Inspector General Report, PDF). Standing room only for a week, no showers, clean clothes, or hot meals as required by humane standards and policy.
II. The Obvious
In the language of history, this is the tyranny (cruelty) of a despotic minority:
"In the Study Toynbee examined the rise and fall of 26 civilizations in the course of human history, and he concluded that they rose by responding successfully to challenges under the leadership of creative minorities composed of elite leaders. Civilizations declined when their leaders stopped responding creatively, and the civilizations then sank owing to the sins of nationalism, militarism, and the tyranny of a despotic minority. Unlike Spengler in his The Decline of the West, Toynbee did not regard the death of a civilization as inevitable, for it may or may not continue to respond to successive challenges. Unlike Karl Marx, he saw history as shaped by spiritual, not economic forces" ...
(Encyclopedia Britannica, emphasis added). There has been an about face away from the public's concern for human rights and an acceptance of cruelty (tyranny).
III. The Solution
Listen to those who started us on the liberty voyage in our ship of state:
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied: and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people.
The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals, engendered by both.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Those truths are well established." - James Madison
“Experience has shown that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson
"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people." - Thomas Jefferson
(Quotes Page). Those statements made by the original American statesmen are still true today.
The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.
VSS (Very Slippery Slope) ...
We don't hear much about the history of the Rus people.
They are the ancestors of modern day Russia.
We hear mostly about their current totalitarian leader, who, if he was a democratic type of leader like those in England, Germany, or other such countries, our current wanna-be totalitarian president would not like him (The Shape Shifters Of Bullshitistan - 19).
Our current wanna-be totalitarian president says he loves another totalitarian who just executed his envoy to the US (USA Today), and covers for a 'prince of a man' who caused the death of a U.S. resident journalist (Awe Topsy - 4).
II. Typical "Wee The People" Dynamics
Our forefathers came from the same secular womb that all efforts toward a government by the people emerge from, instead of a government lording it over the people (Wee The People, 2, 3).
The Rus' people have also been through all of that over the centuries:
"The history of Russia begins with that of the East Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples. The traditional beginning of Russian history is the establishment of Rus' state in the north in 862 ruled by Vikings. Ladoga and Novgorod were the first major cities of the new union of immigrants from Scandinavia with the Slavs and Finno-Ugrians. In 882, Novgorod Prince Oleg seized Kiev, thereby uniting the northern and southern lands of the Eastern Slavs under one power. The state adopted Christianity from the Byzantine Empire in 988, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Orthodox Slavic culture for the next millennium. Kievan Rus' ultimately disintegrated as a state due to the Mongol invasions in 1237–1240 along with the resulting deaths of about half the population of Rus'. After the 13th century, Moscow became a cultural center. By the 18th century, tsar Peter the Great had renamed Moscovian Tsardom to become first the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire, hoping to associate it with historical and cultural achievements of ancient Rus'. The state now extended from the eastern borders of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the Pacific Ocean. Peasant revolts were common, and all were fiercely suppressed. Russian serfdom was abolished in 1861, but the peasants fared poorly and often turned to revolutionary pressures. In the following decades, reform efforts such as the Stolypin reforms, the constitution of 1906, and the State Duma attempted to open and liberalize the economy and political system, but the tsars refused to relinquish autocratic rule or share their power. The Russian Revolution in 1917 was triggered by a combination of economic breakdown, war-weariness, and discontent with the autocratic system of government. It initially brought to power a coalition of liberals and moderate socialists, but their failed policies led to seizure of power by the communist Bolsheviks on 25 October. Between 1922 and 1991, the history of Russia is essentially the history of the Soviet Union, effectively an ideologically based state which was roughly conterminous with the Russian Empire before the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The approach to the building of socialism, however, varied over different periods in Soviet history, from the mixed economy and diverse society and culture of the 1920s to the command economy and repressions of the Joseph Stalin era to the "era of stagnation" in the 1980s. From its first years, government in the Soviet Union was based on the one-party rule of the Communists, as the Bolsheviks called themselves, beginning in March 1918."
(Culture of Ancient Rus). It is interesting that "The Vikings" also had a part in the formation of the early governments of English speaking peoples:
"For Britain however was reserved the second invading wave. It came from the North. In Scandinavia the Vikings fitted out their long-boats for sea. This double assault by Arab infidels and Nordic pirates distracted the weakened life of Europe for ten generations. It was not until the eleventh century that the steel-clad feudalism of medieval Christendom, itself consisting largely of the converted descendants of the Vikings, assigned limits to the Arab conquests, and established at the side of the Christian Church ample and effective military power."
(Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples, p. 71). All peoples have struggled with oppressive governments and have eventually, in common, failed for the most part:
But always TCS [The Creep State] is primarily the population segment diagnosed as a despotic minority which the once most-often-quoted historian, Toynbee, fingered as one of the members of the trinity of extinction that he found in all civilizations that were about to become very successful at becoming extinct:
That something is the dementia that produces and ends up in suicide:
"In other words, a society does not ever die 'from natural causes', but always dies from suicide or murder --- and nearly always from the former, as this chapter has shown."
(A Study of History, by Arnold J. Toynbee). There is no cure for the final symptom of that group dementia, there is only prevention by way of avoiding it altogether in the first place.
The components of that group dementia were pointed out in an encyclopedia piece concerning that historian quoted above:
"In the Study Toynbee examined the rise and fall of 26 civilizations in the course of human history, and he concluded that they rose by responding successfully to challenges under the leadership of creative minorities composed of elite leaders. Civilizations declined when their leaders stopped responding creatively, and the civilizations then sank owing to the sins of nationalism, militarism, and the tyranny of a despotic minority. Unlike Spengler in his The Decline of the West, Toynbee did not regard the death of a civilization as inevitable, for it may or may not continue to respond to successive challenges. Unlike Karl Marx, he saw history as shaped by spiritual, not economic forces" ...
(Encyclopedia Britannica, emphasis added). The show stopper, in terms of remedy, in this type of group dementia is that it is a contagious dementia.
(How To Identify The Despotic Minority). Like the seemingly endless struggle for a civilized government of, by, and for the people, a seemingly endless emergence of a despotic minority is always at the door.
III. The Common Good
The founders of the United States expressed the desire of people everywhere to have a common chance to go through life without oppression and to experience the common good (The Common Good, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).
Nothing has changed in that regard, or in the counter struggles to enslave the peoples of the world.
Russia, America, China, Europe, Asia, The North, The South, The East, and The West all have that in common.
Watch the video on Youtube (Link) ...
"The press is the enemy of the people" in North Korea, China, Russia, The Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and other right-wing authoritarian countries (How To Identify The Despotic Minority, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).
The authoritarian right wing president of the USA has the same Orwellian, wrong headed opinion.
He speaks evil of fellow Americans in concert with mass murdering North Korean "ideological lover Kimmy."
His current corrupt leader of the Department of Just Us (DOJ) has evidently cleared the way for Robert Swan Mueller III (RSM III) to speak briefly at the newly evolved Department of Hoaxes (DOH), but to take no questions afterwards, thus, today among other things we will see how much Tweeter has perverted, or not, RSM III.
In other words, we may see whether or not the two years of public criticism, obstruction, and character assassination of the Special Counsel has taken down yet another official.
We already know that it has taken down many American minds who now support Professor Cruel of Trump University (High Percent of GOP Support Trump).
Once upon time on a planet where substantial numbers of the population were unaware of where they were, tragic events took place which resulted in the deaths of billions of people there.
It started like this:
In the year of their lord, 2019, despotic minorities outfoxed the majorities, then grabbed power in the USA and Israel.
They badmouthed Islam and became aggressive toward those of that faith, even to the point of annexing the property of other countries, moving embassies to Jerusalem, and the like.
Islamic radicals, it was said (a la the Reich-stag fire narrative), infiltrated a construction crew at a Christian Cathedral in Paris, then surreptitiously started a fire which caused massive destruction to the Cathedral.
Others said that the fire was actually started by USA & Israeli authoritarian operatives just so they could increase their authoritarian objectives.
In retaliation for that fire, the authoritarians seized the Dome of The Rock Mosque in Jerusalem, then had their way with it.
One of the "DNA" factors in the despotic minority is denial of global warming and a hatred toward nature.
In the scientific literature this is known as "a heroism that triumphs over nature, perpetuating itself through new immortality ideologies that value material acquisitions and money" which have become a modernistic religion:
"Because there are few cultures remaining that have not been superseded by larger entities, with tribes becoming townships, cities, states, and nations, we no longer have an “integrated world conception into which we fit ourselves with pure belief and trust” (Becker 1975). Although this might open up the possibility of a utopian, egalitarian, and secular society in which the combined gifts of individuals prevail, what we have in the West is a secular inequality devoid of a shared sense of the sacred and a heroism that triumphs over nature, perpetuating itself through new immortality ideologies that value material acquisitions and money. Lacking in heroism, these immortality ideologies come up empty or even inspire guilt. The irony of Western materialism is that wealth beyond the point of basic material comfort does not make people happy (Gilbert 2005)."
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[That "heroism" is seen as savior that saves humanity from nature, but like other religions, it morphs into a modernistic religion that fractures a society:]
"Traditionally, technology consolidates power within a society and exacerbates inequity. What is interesting about the new information technologies is that they do both: They consolidate power with patents, exclusive intellectual capital, and expensive tools, and they distribute power through open source technologies and open communication networks. As such, they promote material segregation while at the same time providing a relatively open network within which ideological communities can function. Photo galleries, forums, listserves, Google groups, and new social networking tools like MySpace, Facebook, and Second Life present mechanisms for growing online communities. In this new virtual world, frequent interaction is easy to achieve, and the topics around which free choice interaction occurs can be very focused and specific, suggesting that large social networks function like smaller ideological communities once did in the real world."
... "Technocracy itself is an immortality ideology that, although it is coupled with materialism, has as part of its makeup an element of the magical and a belief that new tools and innovations provide solutions to both the small day-to-day problems of life and the larger problems of human happiness and mortality. Technology is entrancing, and, functionally, technologists become creators of magic and the wizards of today, claiming the same authority over technology that doctors claim over human health or shamans over the cursed. This has always been so, going back to ancestral peoples who learned to use fire, tools, wind, and wheels. Even in subsistence societies, technology has a greater impact on a variety of sociological variables than do supernatural or religious beliefs (Nolan and Lenski 1996). ... Even in subsistence societies, technology has a greater impact on a variety of sociological variables than do supernatural orreligious beliefs (Nolan and Lenski 1996)."
(The Machine Religion, quoting Dickinson, J. L., Ecology and Society 14, 2009 , emphasis added). Let me repeat what I said in that post: "These observations explain why a minority of participants in the (it is said) 'greatest, richest, and militarily most powerful nation' of current civilization can take control of power."
II. Despotic Factors
And that is the final essence of the despotic minority that forms and destroys the civilization through primitive and pervasive fear:
But always TCS is primarily the population segment diagnosed as a despotic minority which the once most-often-quoted historian, Toynbee, fingered as one of the members of the trinity of extinction that he found in all civilizations that were about to become very successful at becoming extinct:
That something is the dementia that produces and ends up in suicide:
"In other words, a society does not ever die 'from natural causes', but always dies from suicide or murder --- and nearly always from the former, as this chapter has shown."
(A Study of History, by Arnold J. Toynbee). There is no cure for the final symptom of that group dementia, there is only prevention by way of avoiding it altogether in the first place.
The components of that group dementia were pointed out in an encyclopedia piece concerning that historian quoted above:
"In the Study Toynbee examined the rise and fall of 26 civilizations in the course of human history, and he concluded that they rose by responding successfully to challenges under the leadership of creative minorities composed of elite leaders. Civilizations declined when their leaders stopped responding creatively, and the civilizations then sank owing to the sins of nationalism, militarism, and the tyranny of a despotic minority. Unlike Spengler in his The Decline of the West, Toynbee did not regard the death of a civilization as inevitable, for it may or may not continue to respond to successive challenges. Unlike Karl Marx, he saw history as shaped by spiritual, not economic forces" ...
(Encyclopedia Britannica, emphasis added). The show stopper, in terms of remedy, in this type of group dementia is that it is a contagious dementia.
