The US military has been the biggest and the greatest in the whole wide world for the last 158 years—since the war of conquest of the southern states by the northern ones. [1/]
Don't get it wrong, though: if the the communist elite embraces to a large point a capitalistic system in the USA, it is not because it upholds "moderate principles" in its communism — an oxymoron indeed. Moderation is just an opportunistic matter of means. [11/]
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Rather, the communist elite embraces capitalism for two reasons: First and foremost, because it understands this capitalism creates the fantastic wealth that feeds its political power and finances its supremacy over rival communist super-powers. [12/]
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Second, because it has to deal with a populace that for the moment is still armed physically (with guns) and mentally (with common sense) against the onslaught of its ideology. But not for long. [13/]
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Between a constant push for arms confiscation, and an education system and mass media that have been almost completely conquered by the communists, it is only a matter of time before totalitarianism is achieved here as there. [14/]
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The population has already lost the mental structures and means of organization to actively push back; it cannot fight the inevitable, only delay it through inertia, its only, passive, defense. "Conservativism is progressivism driving the speed limit" —
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Once this internal resistance is finally vanquished, the only limit to how totalitarian Oceania can be will be the outer pressure: allowing just enough freedom to produce wealth so that it can afford to stay on top of the Eternal War with Eurasia and/or Eastasia. [16/]
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And considering how little freedom Eurasia and Eastasia are doing with, that's a pretty low bar that we should expect Oceania to emulate. [17/17]
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