Police States with Dictatorial Powers Aren't Stronger, They're Weaker

If only we knew what the Leader knows then we'd how how wise it is that their actions be kept secret.

Nonsense!

The secrets such leaders keep are secrets about how incompetent and criminal they are.

And the more able they are to keep their incompetence and criminality secret the more incompetent and criminal they become.

Such regimes are not strong.

They are not resilient.

They do not last a thousand years.

They have no future.

Were the Nazis really strong and efficient, or were they hopelessly compromised by their own incompetence?

Did the Soviet police state really make them strong, or did it make them a joke that collapsed under the weight of their own corruption?

Did their crimes against humanity keep them in power, or was that part of the reason they were driven from power?

So for those who say they don't mind having a police state with dictatorial powers, as long as it keeps us safe, ask them

"Why do you want us to be so weak?"

That's what I try to convey to * supporters until I'm blue in the face. Anyone who tells you "I'll protect you. Just don't argue with me and give me some control over you" is a BAD person. And you have more to fear from THEM than whatever it is they claim they'll protect you from, which they won't. Dictators have no interest in anything but unchecked power and getting everything for themselves. The parallels between Bush and Saddam are striking. Saddam also surrounded himself by yes-men and made sure that there were no dissidents at any of his appearances. Why don't people see it?

"This would be a heck of a lot easier if this were a dictatorship. So long as I'm the dictator. Huh huh."

He wasn't kidding. :scared:

Similarly, conflict, which the right eschews, makes us stronger. If--and this is a big if--it is handled correctly.




Cher

They claimed Democracy was a failed idea, that open government with respect for individual rights and differences of opinion made us weak.

They claimed that their system with no debate, with no individual rights, with total secrecy, with a leader and a party that was not just above the law, they were the law, made them strong.

In reality our open system of government proved to be the stronger, and their closed system of government proved to be the weaker.

This is because an open system of government can't cover for it's incompetence and criminality they way a closed system of government can.

So in a closed system of government the incompetence and criminality can only get worse, because they think they can get away with anything.

I regret slipping back into talking about how bad it was to support such "Nazilike and Stalinistic" ways of doing things, rather than sticking with talking about how weak and stupid it was to support such ways of doing things.

Certainly the crimes committed, and the death toll left by the Nazis and the Soviets has not been surpassed, not yet anyway.

My point is that their's is not the way to go, not if we want to be strong, not if we want to be free.

Congratulations on your new born son, and thank you for your time.

makes you feel so good ;)