• Billiam@lemmy.world
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    I think there’s an alarming number of Americans who are realizing the government is the only thing between them and the violent fantasies they desperately want to enact.

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      Same people who are afraid to visit New York or Chicago today think that they will thrive in a lawless dystopia.

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        They don’t think it will be a lawless utopia, do they? They want strict application of laws on people, just not corporations. Unless those corporations directly harm them, then it’s bad corporation.

        I see it as akin to how Nazis pushed the idea that the Weimar government was soft on crime (liberals just didn’t understand how to apply “justice”), so they opened Dachau to show their fellow Germans how “criminals” should be dealt with. It served as a primer on how they would operate the kz network in Poland and elsewhere.

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          Wilhoit’s Law : Conservatism consists of one principle: there needs to be an in-group whom the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group whom the law binds but does not protect.