22-11-2016, 09:21 AM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Given that Trump used to be a Democrat (as Reagan once was), it shows that the problem is not really one of party identification, but the character of people like the Orange Mussolini and the people around him. We really have gotten used to the friendly, soft fascism of the Democratic party, and recoil in horror at the in-your-face hard fascism of the Republicans. But maybe that's what it will require to wake more people up. Maybe, as Susan Sarandon said many months ago, Trump would bring on the Revolution.
The fear is that soft fascism is simply a slow preparation for hard fascism to take deeper root. If Marine Le Pen was to win in France next year, and that is a real possibility now, then what we are witnessing is that the relentless pressing ahead with the globalist agenda, plus endless wars and never ending images on TV of the unfortunate killed and injured in these wars, actually results in greater swing to the far and extreme right in a compensatory way.
And there was I thinking that the natural (and historical) compensatory swing of populations would be to the left - whereas it looks like today's centre ground has been pushed far further to the right.
Social engineering anyone?
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14