"In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes." — Thomas Paine, "Rights of Man" [7/]
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"The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies." — Robert Conquest [8/]
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Obviously, USG does not in any way act in the interest of the American People, but of its own. The multi-trillion dollar boondoggle is not a burden lost, but a fortune won, to the Establishment that has conquered from within a country that was never beaten from without. [9/]
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The Establishment's ideology is communist in all but name: the name lost its marketing value in 1991, the ideas have only grown freed from the name. Though surely its policies are closer to Lenin's NEP than to Stalin's dekulakization. [10/]
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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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