Was Katrina BushCo's experiment in Straussian social Darwinism?

[Cleita]

"Why I Left America, The Rise Of Elitist Fascism And The Death Of American Democracy" An essay by Scott Bidstrup that I just found.

http://www.bidstrup.com/exile.htm

I think this explains a lot about what has happened in New Orleans and the rest of the cities and states hit by Hurricane Katrina. These people in the highest offices of our nation are practicing Straussian social Darwinism, a philosophy that preaches that everyone must struggle to get to the top and those that can't survive will be left behind. It's the theory of survival of the fittest, which Darwin formulated to explain evolution that has been twisted in meaning by applying it to societies and governments.

Leo Strauss is the Nosferatu who influenced that cabal of vampires who founded the PNAC (Project For a New American Century), which our present government is being ruled by. I really think now what they did about Hurricane Katrina was more than negligence. It was an experiment in Straussian social Darwinism. Who needs a holocaust when mother nature is providing you with one free of charge? Those who survive will be the fittest. We will just sit by and attend fund raisers, eat cake, strum guitars and play golf until it blows over.

An excerpt:

When egalitarianism is replaced by social Darwinism, as promoted by this bizarre theory of justice, repression of the lower classes not only is acceptable, but is even justified in the minds of the average person even when they are part of the persecuted class. The result has been that Americans don't even care about social justice as they once did. If the rich have to step over the homeless in the street on the way to the opera, then so be it. The belief is that the homeless are laying in the gutter because of decisions they have made - that they're lazy and incompetent, and they could "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" if they had any "gumption." Any effort to improve the lot of the poor is ridiculed as "bleeding-heart liberalism" and "social engineering." This attitude has come to be prevalent, even among the working classes in the United States, in spite of the growing experience of those same people with increasingly rapid downward mobility in the form of lower real wages and reduced benefits, over which they have no control, and which has occurred in spite of the harder work and longer working hours being put in by the average American worker, more than at any time in living memory. So deeply have they been convinced that their circumstances are entirely of their own making, that they never seem to question why this downward mobility continues in spite of increasing worker productivity and a growing economy. They have been told, and therefore assume it to be correct, that it is their fault for decisions they have made themselves.

Yep, I too am leaning toward another LIHOP.

[wli]

1. It's only a minor milestone in the experiment n/t

[blm]

2. I call it the BFEE's idea of population control while they pay lipservice

to the antiabortion voters.

[Cleita]

8. They really don't think they need to do anything for the

population. Just even the ass-smirk asking for donations really meant that if anything is going to be done then charity and we are going to have to do it because they aren't gonna.

We just need to keep paying taxes and not complaining where the money goes because they are protecting us from terrorism. Isn't that enough?

[KittyWampus]

3. Please Stop It. This Was Soviet Style Incompetence & Ass Covering

ala Chernobyl

[RBHam]

4. That's your opinion.

But we also have ours.

And it makes sense.

[KittyWampus]

6. No, it really doesn't because there is NO way to spin this to make them

look good. And attempts to spin it are totally transparent.

[Cleita]

7. They have gotten past thinking they have a need to spin, I believe.

Let's face it BushCo gets everything they want with little resistance. They don't have to look good anymore. The rest of their philosophy is going according to plan. Like other dictatorships though, they miss the writing on the wall. Something will always bring them down. Something they don't expect. I think this is going to be something they underestimated in the public response.

I am curious what they are going to come up with as a scapegoat?

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. Then why do they call us

Useless Eaters? Think about it.

[Karmadillo]

13. Got a link? Otherwise, I'm not sure your speculation is more

convincing than the speculation in the OP. I don't think I can remember a disaster where getting water to the victims was neglected. John Roberts on CBS tonight noted he had never seen such a thing before.

[Doctor_J]

5. Last night while lying in bed I found myself

wishing it had been Galveston or Brownsville instead of NOLA. I bet there would've been a much more prompt response in that case.

[Marr]

9. No, it's an example of what happens when idiots, ideologues,

and corrupt corporatists take complete control of the government. They completely ignored the infrastructure of our own country in favor of handing tax money to their rich buddies.

That's what happened. They were so fixated on playing empire and funnelling OUR money into companies like Halliburton that they had no time to actually do their job.

[Cleita]

12. They are idiots except when it comes to Machiavellian type

politics. But they really don't believe the plebians should expect any return in social services for their taxes.

[applegrove]

10. Yup they need the "looting" criminal & survival to go on as long as

possible.

[Cleita]

14. Maybe someone is interested in this POV on the night shift.

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