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Diamond Boy's avatar

I’ve had something stuck in my craw for a while and this is the perfect opportunity to put it out there.

Power is at the centre of all human dynamics.

Liberals misapprehend this, they think it’s something unique to being in white. They think with a fresh start we can rebuild and make an equitable human power dynamic.

Such arrogance, such self deluded overreach. The nature of power is immutable and when you give away power the new group, the group in ascendancy, the group newly possessed of power will abuse it exactly as white people have abused it. The only difference is you will now be losing, you will be getting the short end.

This article speaks of the old white boys network and how this woman president Oubre is constructing her own similar clique and what a travesty it is. Holy cow man, what do you think? Of course that’s what’s gonna happen, it is not a travesty, it is a certainty.

When you make the marginalized powerful they will do as we have done and abuse that power: that’s what we humans are!

Liberals think we can deconstruct the police and then reconstruct state power and come up with something different! Fools: it will be a violent circular journey and we will return from whence we came.

Power corrupts; liberalism is delusional; we are lost.

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Jonathan Epps's avatar

I would respectfully disagree, because, though I agree with your conclusion, I’d argue that power is not always at the center of human dynamics. It only becomes the center when people relinquish ethics and integrity in their professions and daily lives. A teacher who gives up this integrity, no longer teaching the content of their subject but promotes ideological adherence instead is only looking for power. A teacher who is passionately engaged by their subject and disseminates it to educate their students as individuals is just doing their job with dignity. Power as central human struggle is their thesis, not the thesis of the men and women who build a healthy civilization.

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Broncojohnny's avatar

Further to your comment, in collectivist societies these enclaves of power still exist but instead of being centered around money, they are centered around political power. In the Soviet Union, the people riding around with flags on the fenders of their limousines were the upper class and they ruled by doling out the power of the state to who they deemed as deserving. This is similar to China today, which has a similar system but with more palatable (to the west anyway) capitalist slant wherein the CCP decides which company lives or dies.

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Kate's avatar

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others LOL.

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jt's avatar

IL-liberals OWN the media, the corporations and, increasingly, the courts and the government. And, yeah,, they abuse power, all-a them.

It HAS corrupted them, but some are seeing that and REJECTING their circular arguments. A lotta them Dems. Only thing to be done is be polite to them, AFAIK, and things won't be lost. Or, at the very LEAST, they'll be slowed down a fair bit.

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