The TSA gropes our neighbors, the EPA bankrupts our neighbors with stupid regulations to benefit fish in lieu of men, DOE SWAT teams mistakenly raid our neighbor’s homes breaking doors down, farmers are bankrupted for selling home produced milk, the IRS garnishes our neighbor’s wages and takes their property, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum!
Why Govts Always Win
Jun 9, 2011 7:37am by Charles Lamm in
Until the masses reach the tipping point.
Amplify’d from www.lewrockwell.com
What we have in common is the need to protect one another’s inviolability from governmental force. When we understand that the woman being groped by a TSA agent stands in the same shoes as our wife, mother, or grandmother; when the man being beaten by a sadist cop is seen, by us, as our father or grandfather, we become less willing to evade the nature of the wrongdoing by invoking the coward’s plea: "better him than me."
The state owes its very existence to the success it has had in fostering division among us, a topic I explored in my Calculated Chaos book. Divide-and-conquer has long been the mainstay in political strategy. If blacks and whites; or Christians and Muslims; or employees and employers; or "straights" and "gays"; or men and women; or any of seemingly endless abstractions, learn to identify and separate themselves from one another, the state has established its base of power.
From such mutually-exclusive categories do we draw the endless "enemies" (e.g., communists, drug-dealers, terrorists, tobacco companies) we are to fear, and against whom the state promises its protection. By becoming fearful, we become existentially disabled, and readily accept whatever safeguards the institutional fear-mongers impose, . . . all for our "benefit," of course!
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