Unity Again, Says Hillary

I’ve emphasized many times that American society has been indoctrinated with the idea of UNITY as a means to SECURITY. Most recently, I pointed out that whereas this served certain purposes earlier in U.S. history, for good or ill, the emphasis on UNITY and SECURITY had become a maladaptation. The government uses the idea of unity as a pretext to enact numerous harmful policies, and we are all supposed to genuflect before its edicts, keep our mouths shut and go along with them.

Unity no longer brings strength when the uniters who have the power misuse it or have too much power in the first place. Then unity is counterproductive. What we need is a movement toward decentralization and much less government power at all levels.

Hillary Clinton has just come out with the slogan “STRONGER TOGETHER”. Hillary Clinton can’t do any better than come up with the same tired idea of UNITY as a means to SECURITY, which is what “Stronger Together” means. This slogan is also an extension of her notion that it takes a village to raise a child, an idea that downgrades the family drastically, merging it into a vague idea of society and the body politic.

Banding together makes sense under certain conditions, but this depends on how the banding occurs, over what it occurs and on circumstances that make such banding adaptive to good ends. As a generalized idea, good in all cases, “Stronger Together” makes no sense. The U.S. is already immensely strong militarily in certain directions. The government is already immensely strong and powerful and constantly misuses that strength. There is already way too much enforced and coercive “togetherness” in all sorts of nooks and crannies of our daily lives.

Clinton’s main campaign idea is this slogan, characterized as “Clinton’s pitch for unity”. What does she want? She tells us:

“Look, we are stronger together. We are stronger together in facing our internal challenges and our external ones. We are stronger together if we work to improve the economy … We are stronger together if we have a bipartisan, even nonpartisan, foreign policy that protects our country.”

She wants a cooperative Congress, cooperative Republicans, a cooperative Judiciary and a cooperative electorate that will follow her programs, enact her desired legislation and support her policies. This is really a self-serving slogan to get her ideas enacted. Actually, what I think Hillary really wants is OBEDIENCE.

But are her ideas any good? That’s far more important to the country than coming together! Even if this togetherness were to occur, would it mean that their “work” would improve the economy and protect the country? The past few decades provides no assurance whatever that this would be the case. And Hillary’s own record of influence and leadership provides far greater reason to fear her performance in office than to provide her with the power she so greatly desires.

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11:27 am on May 23, 2016