Cox Richardson Prompt

January 16, 2021

Do elite males allow anyone to undercut their system of life?

No. They have spent all the centuries since before Aristotle establishing their system and by God, it will stay the way it is into perpetuity.

They are harsh and canny enough to make this stick.

In the USA we see a full flowering of the elite male ethos and a governance style geared to soften up the minds of The People for the purpose of elite male production and war.

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Dr. Heather Cox Richardson well explains elite white male aggression for the purpose of conquest and acquisition that is US history, and the effects on the lives of Native Americans, Black slaves and their progeny after the Civil War, and women at all levels of society.

This week’s piece linked above continues her recounting of recent right-wing white supremacist actions against the liberal ideology based US government and the freedoms white supremacists are fighting to regain, freedoms infringed on by Presidents Lincoln and Delano Roosevelt and their progeny.

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Here are key pieces of evidence Dr. Richardson cites from US history:

“When Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt established business regulation, a basic social safety net, and government-funded infrastructure in the 1930s to combat the Great Depression that had laid ordinary Americans low, one right-wing senator wrote to a colleague: “This is despotism, this is tyranny, this is the annihilation of liberty…. The ordinary American is thus reduced to the status of a robot. The president has not merely signed the death warrant of capitalism, but has ordained the mutilation of the Constitution, unless the friends of liberty, regardless of party, band themselves together to regain their lost freedom.”’

What lost freedom? The freedom to enslave other human beings. Also, the freedom to define the nature and worth of all classes of person needed to staff elite white male society.

Here is an example of the definition and worth of Blacks in white society that has been used for 400 years among elite white men and their white men followers:

“Negro” who lived in government housing and “didn’t have nothing to do.” Black people’s laziness led them to abort their children and send their young men to jail, he told a reporter, and he wondered: “are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life… or are they better off under government subsidy?”

Is it true in real life that Blacks are lazy, criminal, and against family life? Is it true Blacks are only serviceable citizens if enslaved to whites?

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The powers to own, define, and use are restricted to in-group white men and their elite white male leaders only in this type of society, which is indeed the original US societal structure that the newly minted originalist US Supreme Court, put there by a decades-long set of political maneuverings by elite white male GOP politicians and their support classes,

are laboring to reimpose on US society today.

Many of us, including many white men, aren’t interested in living that way ever again.

What is your definition of Freedom and what kind of social structure could be based on it? Let your mind run free, once you have defined your own brand of Freedom!