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  • June 24, 2018 at 9:50 am #87604
    wv
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    “He’s the head of a country, and I mean he’s the strong head,” Trump said. “He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”

    June 24, 2018 at 10:00 am #87605
    wv
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    A quote by adam smith, fwiw.

    “[H]e whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations … generally becomes as … ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment … But in every … society this is the state into which … the great body of the people must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it.” —Book 5. Ch. 1. Line 178.
    link:https://truthout.org/articles/todays-capitalism-is-a-far-cry-from-what-it-was-intended-to-be/

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    One wonders how Adam Smith would describe most American voters these days. One wonders what a modern-corporotacracy does to citizens. I’m not thinking of the working-class voters, I’m thinking of the wallstreeters and ‘professional’ classes that vote for corporate-dems. What has the corporotacracy done to them?

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    June 24, 2018 at 10:15 am #87606
    nittany ram
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    wv wrote:

    “He’s the head of a country, and I mean he’s the strong head,” Trump said. “He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”

    Yeah, he said it. He doesn’t even try to hide his desire to be the Supreme Ruler of America.

    His minions are all for it. 52% of Republicans polled said they would gladly support postponing the 2020 election if Glorious Leader asked them to.

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    June 24, 2018 at 10:37 am #87607
    zn
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    Smith is mainly talking about class and the division of labor. This was a general way of talking about class for the time. That is, there’s the real citizens of the country, the educated elite, whose minds engage with many diverse things. Then there are people who work. They are narrow and limited. They are incapable of discussing things such as government and policy. So we don’t ask them to participate.

    Here’s the whole original quotation:

    In the progress of the division of labor, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labor, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

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