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In reply to the discussion: PoliticsGirl: There's nothing in the Constitution that says SCOTUS is the final word on what's constitutional [View all]Kid Berwyn
(18,094 posts)Many if not most of them seem to believe it, based on the way they treat the Others they consider their "inferiors."
Take what was the Belgian Congo, today the Democratic Republic of Congo, once a possession of the king and then a colony of Belgium. Big bucks were made simply by taking or looting or extracting the minerals right from under the dead feet of the people who just had happened to live there. Big Oil has operated in a similar fashion transnationally ever since the CIA was new to the Dulles Brothers, the Bush family and Brown Brothers Harriman.
I loathe the idea that any one is my superior. Furthermore, I loathe its corollary, the idea that I consider myself superior to any one else. That doesn't mean I won't knock the teeth out of a NAZI, no matter their lifestyle, bank account or reputation as a philanthropist, when I see one.