Throwing Away the Facade

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(05-22-2012 01:11 PM)Marc Stevens Wrote:  This has not passed yet, but I'm pretty sure this is part of a trend.

I agree. With the clarifier that the "trend" has long been going on (it tends to be Their nature; see "The Whiskey Rebellion" irony for example)... increMentalization... in the sense of the frog in the pot fable/legend and the camel's nose fable. I've long suspected the whole "pushing" of the proverbial "letters" has to do with conditioning. Once it's "routine", then the public acceptance of "The Letter" (legislation) easily follows (coupled of course, with the classic fear-mongering).

Or rather than the fables, in the more real world scenario, The Nasi Story, touched on by Bonhoeffer, and updated:
"First They came for the Communists jay walkers... and I did nothing, because I was not a jay walker. Then They came for the Socialists drug dealers... and I did nothing, because I was not a drug dealer. Then They came after the Jews/Atheists traffic violators... but I did nothing, because I wasn't a traffic violator unsafe driver. Then They came for me, and there was no one left to do anything...

[one other qualifier: I'm in no way wishing to convey that the 1940s National Socialist Germany, in the end results, is directly or exactly correlated to the present U.S.; such is quite relative/personal/scaled; in drawing upon those horrors I merely wish to use it in hopes of awakening others to how it begins, and the principle]