How We Grew Corrupted

"They know what happened in the election, and they are fine with it." 

As this election plays out, we are seeing the unmasking of the corrupt in all levels of government---corrupt judges, corrupt legislators, corrupt Governors, corrupt state officials, corrupt county officials, corrupt party bosses.

The corruption is widespread in both parties. We let this rot. We let this become this. We got lazy about the steadfastness required for continuation of Democracy. In our lassitude we can with a hair's breadth of throwing it all away.

My generation is responsible for this in. large part. We got lured away from the morality required to sustain Democracy, and towards a beautiful utopian promise instead, one that would be available if only we were willing to put away everything from the past, including the idea that meaning exists.

We live in the real world, but in our heads we live in the television show M*A*S*H, or Friends, or something else that captured our imagination in our youth, and taught us what the world "out there" was like, and what to expect of it. We all went to Television Studio Academy---that is except for a few us, who were expelled or held outside of it by family influence. 

Television and Communism were made for each other. Television is capable of duplicating the real world to such a degree, within our own homes, that we can enter into its reality with ease, and can even stay there when we are not watching television. Communism is entirely about made-up worlds. 

The made-up world of Communism is any world in which certain distressing problems of today's real world are gone. All inequities are gone.  They are gone because Communism as an ideology asserts it is possible to will them to be done, as a society.

The inequities that Communism addresses varies from one era to another. When western civilization was still in a time of material want, Communism expressed our yearnings for a word in which everyone was provided with basic material necessities, and that material wealth were distributed "fairly."

The inequities of today's American Communism are obvious. One need not go into them. Suffice it to say that such "concept words" as "diversity","inclusivity", "intersectionality", "sustainability", etc., are specifically designed to appeal to Communist goals.

The end of Communism is always the same thing: the achievement of this better society through social will demands the consolidation of political power into the hands of people who are able to steer society through the shoals of history, to achieve this better world. 

Give power to these people, and let them do what they need to do, and we can have that world you are yearning for. 

Face it: the Communists were the good guys on M*A*S*H, weren't they? By the end of the show, hadn't all the American characters been converted to sympathy for the supposed enemy, and belief that their own side's cause was fundamentally unjust?