CapnG/Mothra:
Ok, I think we have a misunderstanding here.
Firstly, I am not promoting any form of political misadventure here. Perhaps using the "political right" as some tool to get my message across was misleading, as it takes us down the relative recent historical perspective of Fascism and Nazism - and National
Socialism was not necessarily stricly speaking exclusively a right wing point of view.
What I was advocating was to deal with this before it arose - now though, we have left it too late and consequently liberalism (conditioned debate, rhetoric, politeness and niceties) is pointless now - given the portfolio of problems we are about to encounter, at approximately the same time - this is no coincidence, merely the ability of humanity to procrastinate, and hide from problems.
- Financial payback - Credit constriction- Depression.
- Corporate Moral bankrupty and failure of political leadership.
- Dwindling energy reserves.
- Community - Social breakdown.
- Global Climatic change.
- Unresolved world regional tensions
All these problems are going to ignite some form of change - it will throw people into adverse poverty as Mothra so elegantly describes.
The result - there will be draconian political effects - it will start small: affecting the lowest common denominator - perhaps resulting in a revolt - and then exacerbate on to global tensions. Ergo - 1930/40's.
So, I will start small - in the hope of answering Mothra's question.
You appear to have not walked in the peoples shoes you are ready to hack to pieces.
I was born, during the 70's into a Northern English community.
The family and the community comprised of mill workers, labourers, manufacturers, miners.
We grew up in relative poverty - My descendents fell victim to the 1930's depression and my current life experienced Thatcherite disinvestment of our industries during the 80's.
My family were big supporters of the mining strikes et al - and I was involved in some of the demonstrations and protests occuring during the 80's. It was here that I got the first glimpse of the exponentionally proportional relationship between poverty and violence.
We lived on the breadline - but this background taught us one of the most basic and important lessons ever.
- Gullibility may be an amiable failing in some departments of life. The sucker may be afflicted by nothing but an excess of faith, hope and charity.
- If you expend less than you earn - happiness. If you expend more than you earn - misery.
As conditions stabilised over the years - it was strange how people around us were becomming more affluent yet the nature and normalised income of there jobs had not really changed. Whats more even the community spirit was dissolving.
My gut instinct was that something was changing, and not necessarily for the best - community was being replaced by commercialism: Thatcher had won. Parents could no longer afford to put a square meal on the table, but always had room for warehouse purchases.
So my response to your question is this:
"If you have ever been poor, the strategems of poverty come back to you like old friends when it looks you in the face again."
I will continue with this later.
