Power goes where it will go.
The existence of a vibrant middle class tends to spread the points of access to power and to diminish the authoritarian strains of all factions primed and ready to go forward and commit their ideas of holy unity.
The ideas of a possible existence of a middle class serve a similar function.
The absence of any hope that such a thing as a middle class may be possible leave the fields open to all manners of saviors.
Policies may come and fail. They may be non too bright and all too corrupt
But they must be open to establishing the ideas of a sustained, broad based population. Power in a democracy should look to find a home in the solid middle …. that which may form itself by accident and common interest, by luck and sustained prosperity, by a culture that calls such a thing good. These were the gifts of a once upon a time. These are not the gifts of now. The ground beneath the feet of that dream or illusion is shifting and caving and the new paradigms may find these old tintypes quaint and sentimental.
Societies change and the puffed out chests of their soldiers may take pride in different things.
Power goes where it will go.
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Pull the right strings and we get to celebrate ugly forever.
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It must be that we have traversed time and century and have been revised by the ghosts of the great depression of the 1930’s.
The poor are left to their own devices with no devices to be had.
The schools are left to their own devises overlooked by those who hear no, see no, wish no professional to be involved in the education process. Any idiot can teach.
The police are left to their own devises with lacking manpower, lacking training, lacking means of being able to relax and feel safe in light of real and perceived threats. Might is a default plan.
Bridges, rails, roads serve only to bring transients from one place to another, to reinforce the unity of the country as a whole. Regions wish not to associate with others of lesser stripe.
Hope is a cynical word with anger and hate a growing currency loved and used by those who wish to maximize the opportunities given by power vacuums and desperate victims. The free market of power acquisition.
Pull the right strings and we get to celebrate ugly forever.
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