Nomomo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:52 pm
Traitor to Democracy Ajax wrote:I hope so. Honestly I'm kind of tired of watching Hannity before bed and getting fired up by Shapiro in the morning. Until they get serious about finding a us a new land where we can throw off the tyranny of democracy......
With this above statement as proof, there no longer can be the slightest doubt whatsoever that Ajax is in fact a traitor to the United States and democracy!
I humbly disagree. I think it is extremely important that, as individuals and as a country, we react in a thoughtful, carefully considered manner to both the events of Wednesday and the conditions that enabled the riot. Ajax is learning a hard lesson: he's been taken for a ride by people like Hannity and Shapiro. They aren't serious about creating the kind of change they've been leading Ajax to believe is coming. They're in this to make a buck, like good capitalists, and revolutions and insurrection are bad for business. Inciting division and conflict -- profitable. Actual revolution -- not profitable. He may even catch on that Trump doesn't give a crap about him and views him as riff raff whose only purpose is to make Trump more money. It's hard to learn that your heroes have feet of clay (or in Trump's case, are all clay).
I've posted this before, I think, but a pure democracy can be a tyranny. In particular, racial, ethnic, and religious minorities can suffer terribly under "majority rules." But Ajax knows that's not our system. We have a Constitution that limits the ability of the majority to harm the minority. That's the difference between a pure democracy and a Constitutional democracy. He uses "tyranny of the majority" as code for "the majority disagrees with me." He thinks he should get his own country where he gets his way on everything. He suffers from a delusion that if he could form a country of like minded people, things would just work like magic. Except that's not what happens in experiments in libertarian utopias. People won't all agree with him, and he will be just as unhappy in his dreamworld as he is in this one.
He's learning another hard lesson: that when Obama said "you didn't build that," he was right. Hyperindividualism is a lie. We are so dependent on the efforts of others, whether through private or public action, that to ignore the effect our actions have on others is nonsensical. It's what leads people to mistake wearing a mask to slow transmission as a deadly disease is "tyranny" or that it's okay to cause mass sickness and death because "economy."
To my knowledge, Ajax hasn't done anything to deserve the word "traitor." And I am loathe to tolerate anything that resembles a modern day witch hunt or to emulate Ajax's imitation of Eugene McCarthy. Like I said, he's free to leave the U.S. Lucky for him, many other countries don't treat immigrants the way he wants the US to treat them.
