Nope. Not in this age.

The peasants are sated with Netflix and Taco Bell and too tied to their debts to even think about it.

Then there’s the technological aspect of social control that will never allow it.

will start building that guillotine right now in my shed

I have never understood why people want more money than they could spend in five lifetimes.

@JanGarber It is called greed

@JanGarber, @jacpod Where do we get thew parts?

@Marine do you have 'amazon' can't be too difficult, you'd think that you ought to be able at least to get a flat pack guillotine at IKEA.

If anyone is doing censorship it would be the republicans plus they are adding a great amount of propaganda. Where did you find this research you speak of ? Also all politics are identity driven!

@Marine I don't know if I want to do a debate, but I'm willing to reference how I have come to conclusions. Discussion is more interesting.

In terms of research, I think having conversations with people on the right and asking then what they are concerned about is very useful. There are polls that have been done as well - there are people on the right that feel like their access to expression has been cut off because of pressure to conform to worldviews. While I don't share those worldviews most of the time, no idea should be so scary as to suppress it if people are to be trusted. I can reference gs, but people like Sam Harris have talked about this a lot already.

When I say identity politics, let me be clear about what I mean. If I say - as a straight man, I can tell you that I don't find someone Caitlyn Jenner attractive... that is a reasonable g. If I say - as a straight man, I can tell you Caitlyn Jenner is not attractive definitively... that is not. The first response identifies me and references the information as subjective. The second makes an objective claim using subjectivity as a basis and justification. If something is true, then it needs to be congruent independent of subjectivity. That is a very important distinction and a value - it shows recognition of fallibility of perception and welcomes conversation when a person recognizes the limitations of subjectivity. Identity politics engages in that last bit there and that leads to dangerous places.

I think that is an intelligent thing to be concerned about.

You are implying hitler was a socialist.... check yourself.

You mean Hitler wasn't the leader of the National SOCIALIST German workers party? He was.Mussolini was also a socialist, but Franco was not.

@doug6352 Lol. Do you honestly believe Hitler was a socialist? WOW. That acronym was pure propaganda, like everything else that allowed him to rise to power.

Does your book look at evolutionary psychology regarding the religious impulse and assignment of agency?

@Markus It sure does. That's what it's all about. I even go into the evolution of the need for it. From my view its etiology, as we would a disease.

@NotConvinced I am sorry, but I am absolutely sure that you are wrong. It is NOT practiced equally by both sides. If you say that, your "crap detector" is broken.

@NotConvinced To meet your specious objection, I will change the statement from "they have absolutely refused to cooperate" to "they have consistently refused to cooperate" That still makes my point, and refutes your assertion. I don't compromise truth.

kock and friends are doing more harm to the USA than one knows.Their foundations conceal their real reasons and jusyt put out false info by the ton.Money is the only thing that matters.

Most of us feel like you do. Certainly she is not describing what is going on in America today. Another thing to consider is that in the UK left and right are opposite politically than they are here. In American the left and right have shifted since the time of Lincoln.

Sort of a depressing subject, unfortunately.