“The two branches of the Establishment party are joined in a totalitarian entente, one of them promoting militarism abroad and police state coercion at home, the other pushing wealth redistribution and social engineering everywhere. Granted, the dichotomy isn’t absolute, and each branch dabbles in the other’s metier — something about which I’ll have more to say anon. But as a matter of “branding,” the division of labor described above is pretty reliable.
And the dialectical synthesis of these two varieties of statism is a bigger, bloodier, costlier and more invasive welfare/warfare/social engineering state that is literally at war with the American people.
Recall Kennedy’s words about the federal hate crimes law: “`We are going to fight terrorism, hatred, and bigotry here at home.'”