Reply #18: Authoritarian systems have to turn to war to argue security issues.

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If they can start turmoil and strife, then they can get people to want a strong authoritarian as a leader.

You could make the same argument that Iran wants strife from the outside to get people away from thinking of agendas that will move them from the reactionary ruling group. And that group was put in power by an outside influence and strict dictatorship.

With authoritarians losing control, they turn to needing war and strife, race strife is one way to do that. I think trying to keep the race and even gay issues in the headlines, is part of the Republican strategies, even if it creates racial tension.

After the 60's turmoil at the Democratic Convention, conservative America wanted someone to give them normalcy, and they were willing to go to the more security state Republican ideas.

It in not anything new, it is just getting more extreme as they get more desperate.


If they could create much social strife, they could argue that things like removing the bill of rights, and other control methods are needed for peoples protection. And they could get people to think it is the incumbents that cause the problems.

Using the immigrants to do this is not an old thing, it has been done by many cultures, find a common enemy for some segment of your base, then use that to create strife.

I think we should fight the legislation because it is unconstitutional, but don't let it feed into the old idea of making us think one group against another.