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In reply to the discussion: Tea Party Patriots Planning A Revolution: ‘Some People May Die’ [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)Here's a snippet from an anonymous libertarian I stumbled on while doing a search on Rand's gleeful hopes for defaulting.
Wasn't sure what it was about, really. But this stuff gets them very excited:
Shut the government down for good! Who needs them????
...the "real billionaires and trillionaires" of the world are coming together now, bypassing the traditional banking system, and starting their own thing!
...the "old" system will be saddled with the debt, and fade away. The new system will be able to expand unhindered.
That is what one sees here! The fading away of the old and the beginning of the new! It's a very exciting and fulfilling thing!
When you see beyond what they are mad about, you find out what makes them happy.
It's a gleeful, messianic fervor for the end of democratic government, to be replaced by a corporate heirarchy.
They see the elderly, disabled and poor as liabilities to be swept away. They think they will be spared, or become part of the ruling elite.
Billionaires and trillionaires don't have a good track record as far as being inclusive and granting freedom to anyone but a small group. .