I've said it before and I'll say it again. The greatest threat to civilization and world peace in 2016 is not totalitarianism. It is ineffective governance, official corruption and a breakdown of civil society. We see it in anarchic Pakistan, awash in firearms. We see it in Mexico, with its corrupt police and thousands of unsolved murders. Venezuela. Guatemala. The kleptocracies of the former USSR. This nightmare in Bangladesh.
Since 2013, bloggers, freethinkers, religious minorities, foreigners, gay activists, followers of more liberal strains of Islam and others have been killed in attacks carried out mostly by groups of young men wielding machetes.
We see it here today in the U.S., in desert precincts where militiamen and Libertarians take shots (literally) at underfunded federales, and strut their stuff under the protection of Leviathan, whom they rely on every day to protect their families, their jobs and their health.
If you are an American who teds to hate secularists, religious minorities, gay activists and "followers of more liberal strains," you are of this ilk.
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