The dilemma as I see it is that vast periods of human history injustice was committed by groups of fearful people against some one or some smaller group within the larger society that could be targeted as adequate to project the hatred that fear produced in them outwardly on as a means of revenge for the unconscious factors that induced that fear in them in the first place. Self hate, in order to deflect awareness of that self hate inwardly, targets something or someone who can't mount a more intimidating counter-threat if attacked.
After centuries of minority groups aware of the threat posed to them by the ever present threat of an outbreak of mass psychosis generated by cults of self haters needing such outlet, we , they managed to scrabble together a justice system founded on liberal principles that made it difficult to convict people of real crimes much less hysterically imagined ones like those arising our of outbreaks of mass psychosis. We say we presume people to be innocent until proven guilty, and for some time now in our country that was the rule of law that held sway. Today, however, owing to the internet, the crazies are active again and have successfully penetrated our political system, justice system, and judicial system to make the presumption of innocence go away. The desire to be able to express the deranged phenomenon of projected self hate is breaking our liberal system threatening to return us to the Dark Ages.
All of this is the result of feelings of American exceptionalism, the result of our capitalist system making people exceptionally sick, held by resentful disrespected and neglected ignored for people who feel nothing in life but that they have gotten the shaft. They imagine things were better in the past in a time they imagine they were getting the big piece of the pie.
This is the result of the unfulfilled political promises if you vote for so and so promised but which never arrived. It doesn't take much insight to know that people never blame themselves or that the 'takers' in society are projecting their desire to take on others even worse off.
The idiots in this country need to ask themselves who benefits when they do not. Is it in the interest of corporations to pay works high or poverty wages. Who loses when unemployment ceases to exist, corporations that want cheep labor? Who wins by promising to eliminate waste but never comes through. Surely it's the people who sucker the stupid with promises they never intend to deliver. Who makes money when regulations and labor laws don't exist. But it's the nature of self hate to self destruct just to prove the people who put them down were right. Misery doesn't just love company. It insists on it.
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