A Racket, a Cult And a Corporation
3rd May 2020
ZMan does a deep dive.
In the fullness of time, future historians will write books on their theories about why liberal democracy came to behave so much like Soviet communism. The hallmark of Bolshevism was its intolerance of dissent. It was willing to sacrifice everything in order to prevent individuals or groups from questioning orthodoxy. This is becoming the defining feature of liberal democracy. In the name of individual rights and dignity, western governments are methodically turning into police states.
The development of an establishment class often called ‘the new clerisy’ composed of government employees, academics, and news media figures (and the cycling of people among those three perches) has led to a uniformity of political opinion that naturally generates a totalitarian approach to publicly-expressed opinion.