In recent weeks, nosotros saw lots of left-wing activists who were apparently surprised if non shocked that majorities inwards 60% of states of the U.S.A. dared to vote for a candidate such as Donald Trump. Haven't the citizens seen the endorsements of Hillary past times 99% of the widely circulated media outlets? Haven't they heard that Donald Trump was unfit for the task as well as politically wrong as well as everyone who would back upwards him would live labeled politically wrong as well? Hasn't 1 twelvemonth of massive pro-Hillary, anti-Trump blackmailing as well as brainwashing inwards almost all the U.S.A. media been plenty to destroy almost all the dissent?
Well, it apparently wasn't enough. It wasn't plenty for a unproblematic reason. The pro-Hillary fanatics haven't succeeded inwards cancelling the elections as well as just about technicalities that guarantee that people determine freely – e.g. the secrecy of the ballots. Because of the secrecy of the ballots as well as sacredness of the polling places, the voters are only shielded from most of the illegitimate pressures. The secrecy of the ballots was introduced exactly inwards monastic say to protect the organisation against aßholes similar you, dear left-wing bullies. So past times the months of self-evidently biased coverage, you've entirely wasted your time, money, as well as energy. You've entirely assured most people that you lot are non existence honest. Years of lies are only non plenty to attain sure political goals if other weather condition aren't fulfilled.
If you lot could have got harassed the people piece they're picking the candidate inwards the polling places, it could have got been different. You could have got threatened them past times boycotts as well as dismissals – things that you lot love to practise inwards the remainder of your life – as well as almost all the people would live afraid as well as they would alternative Hillary. Leftists, you lot wanted a back upwards for Hillary Clinton that would live nearly as clear as the results of the elections inwards the communist countries. But you lot have got failed to practise the hard task that e.g. Stalin had to practise to attain it. What a surprise that you lot weren't as successful as the dearest Georgian comrade of yours – because you lot weren't as hard-working as he was.
I ran into a similar example inwards Czech politics but all the details were completely different. The electrical current finance government minister Andrej Babiš is the 2d wealthiest Czech citizen. His internet worth is nearly $3 billion dollars. He was a old communist as well as an of import 1 – a managing director of a corporation that did lots of unusual merchandise as well as materials similar that. When Václav Klaus as well as colleagues heroically resuscitated capitalism inwards Czechoslovakia after 1989, Babiš was skillful plenty inwards overtaking the communist companies selling fertilizers as well as things similar that.
After the Velvet Divorce, he escaped Slovakia where he had robbed numerous ex-friends as well as he became the most financially successful economical immigrant into Czechia inwards our history. But something was missing. He didn't have got the power that the likes of him enjoyed during communism. So inwards 2011, he founded a political immature lady fellowship of his Agrofert Holding – the "ANO 2011" movement. And ANO, a political party of the Führer type, is currently the most influential political party which is expected to have just about 30% inwards the coming parliamentary elections. Babiš's numbers are self-evidently approaching the Hitler-like realm.
Our social democratic prime number government minister Bohuslav Sobotka is a shy human being as well as the finance government minister Babiš is widely considered our de facto prime number government minister – as well as the most probable de iure side past times side prime number minister. Sobotka just doesn't have got the balls to demo Babiš his house which makes Babiš's executive ability nearly unlimited. But you lot know, the words "nearly unlimited" entirely refer to the limits imposed past times a basically democratic society.
Even though the social democrats originally supported the projection as well, Babiš redefined himself as the mastermind of the EET (the Electronic Evidencecollection of Therevenues), an online organisation to monitor every unmarried cash payment inwards existent time inwards monastic say to "guarantee" (not really) that taxation evasion volition travel a affair of the past.
About 10% of Czechs are self-employed or entrepreneurs of 1 cast or another. Each of them – including the people who aren't truly friends alongside information technology technologies – volition have got to have got a tablet or just about other device, a printer, a connector to the Internet, as well as (usually non free-of-charge) application that informs the finance government minister nearly every payment as well as deals alongside the BKP/FIK codes that are assigned to every transaction. Every buyer volition live able to verify whether a BKP/FIK code of a receipt has been reported to the ministry building as well as campaign problem to the concern that hasn't reported it. And every buyer volition live encouraged to written report whatever concern that forgets to plow over him a receipt.
The excogitation is that inwards 2018, all businesses as well as self-employed people volition live monitored inwards this way. In 2 weeks, the organisation is planned to live imposed on restaurants as well as hotels, inwards March 2017 on shops as well as whatever trading, inwards March 2018 on almost all other self-employed people as well as businesses, except for those that gain things as well as that volition entirely start afterward inwards 2018.
OK, the urgent Dec 1st pace affects just about 50,000 owners of restaurants as well as hotels that are supposed to innovate this "Big Brother" into their businesses inwards ii weeks. Those who won't may live fined upwards to $20,000 – as well as repeatedly. They may live stripped of their licenses, too. Only just about 15% have got already connected to the "playground" – the organisation has "worked" since Nov 1st piece no sanctions volition live imposed on whatever Nov transactions. About 20% of the businesses are planning to unopen down. H5N1 fortunately somewhat smaller per centum volition truly unopen downwards because of this insane novel policy. The survivors volition demand to increment the prices because of the increasing expenses – as well as they volition live able to practise hence because of the reduced competition. All the entrepreneurs have got to pay for the hated device themselves – the average may live $500 at the foremost as well as a $50 fee each calendar month but the needs as well as prices vary (and no 1 truly knows which products are the best ones yet).
I don't desire to repeat these details. Instead, I desire to verbalize nearly something that is analogous to the "shocked" Hillary supporters.
While a slight bulk of Czechs supports this policy – peculiarly because it doesn't touching on them (most Czechs wouldn't recollect nearly becoming entrepreneurs right away as well as it's cracking from most Czechs' perspective if just about other mortal is given hard fourth dimension as well as if the neighbor's caprine animal dies, as a Czech maxim says) – it shouldn't live surprising that an overwhelming bulk of those people who are going to live harassed past times this insane novel Big Brother policy are negative as well as oftentimes real angry nearly the excogitation that threatens their basic dignity, privacy of their data, joy of doing business, as well as sometimes their economical existence (e.g. because they only can't larn to piece of occupation alongside electronic devices as well as apps that are resending hashed BKP/FIK codes etc.).
You may imagine that most of the press is negative these days. The journalists are reporting nearly the defects of the whole system, reasons why eating seat owners are upset, the unpreparedness of the rules peculiarly inwards the context of the e-shops that may live hugely negatively affected because Babiš as well as his comrades just don't have got a slightest clue nearly what the online payments truly hateful as well as what tin live done. And in that location are many essays that hash out the deeper philosophical reasons why the whole trend of thinking that led Babiš as well as his thugs to innovate EET is just fundamentally misguided. H5N1 bulk of the comments inwards the comment sections are negative towards EET, too. That doesn't hateful that most people dislike EET now. H5N1 major argue why the comments are to a greater extent than oftentimes than non negative is that those who are going to live affected are evidently much to a greater extent than active inwards fighting for their rights than those who have got aught to practise alongside EET. For many entrepreneurs, EET is the "biggest lawsuit of the month", to say the least, hence they have got increased the fourth dimension they pass past times fighting alongside it.
But what's weird is that Babiš himself is surprised – or pretends to live surprised – that his pet projection (and Babiš himself) is existence criticized past times anybody. He should live praised instead, he says! He is going to collect upwards to to a greater extent than than one-half a billion dollars a twelvemonth (in 2018) from the "thieves" (=entrepreneurs different from himself). And of course, those 30% of Czechs who vote for him (plus many of those who alternative the social democrats or communists) are supporting him when it comes to EET, too. But what he's shocked past times is the fact that just about people dare to despise him as well as his sick ideas. That shouldn't take away house inwards an ideal world, he seems to think!
On the server of the finance ministry, he's reacting to real many negative articles nearly EET. Needless to say, almost no 1 reads his obnoxious, uninformed, insulting rants. He gets nearly as much exposure as an average blogger. And that's disappointingly piddling for Babiš, of course, because he already considers himself the managing director or possessor of the Czechia (he uses these words because they audio cooler than a "dictator").
You may meet the huge departure betwixt the articles inwards the press that are truly existence written now; as well as the articles that would live appearing inwards a real similar province of affairs during communism. During communism, every unmarried journalist was basically forced to celebrate the communist elite – such as Babiš – as well as its ideas. If a journalist dared to write an article opposing a major novel thought past times the communist elite, he would cease to live a journalist real quickly. And many of those would live relocated to a prison theater or hanged.
But things are different today. Even though the de facto prime number government minister is the same form of a hardcore commie that nosotros used to have got earlier 1989 – as well as at to the lowest degree when it comes to the thought that the interests of the province as well as the goals chosen past times the rulers must live the #1 priority of all citizens, he's arguably to a greater extent than hardcore than most of the commies earlier 1989 as well as maybe than most of the members of NSDAP, as good – the basic constitutional rules of the gratis club haven't been abandoned.
So surprisingly for Babiš, the journalists even hence have got the right to signal out that EET is a totalitarian counterproductive pile of cr*p. And they're doing hence because EET undoubtedly is a toxic pile of cr*p.
It doesn't hateful that he completely misunderstood the liberty of the media inwards our country. He did empathise that they have got just about independent power. So 2 or three years ago, he bought 2 of the v most influential newspapers inwards the country. But something was even hence different than he expected. He has clearly believed that this purchase would guarantee that he would have got a command over what's existence written as well as said as well as the opposition would disappear. H5N1 stupor for comrade Babiš is the opposition hasn't disappeared. In fact, if he were buying the media inwards monastic say to influence the citizens, it was pretty much a waste materials of fourth dimension because most of the time, the possessor has to abide by the independence of the journalists, anyway. And fifty-fifty when he doesn't abide by that independence, it's no expert because their dependence on him becomes real obvious real chop-chop as well as is pointed out as well as mocked past times others whom he hasn't bought yet.
This whole consequence – that millions of Czechs are even hence convinced that he is a communist apparatchik (who was allowed to study abroad because of his every bit apparatchik-classified father) as well as almost sure a old communist hugger-mugger snitch (all people alongside a codename were actively collaborating, a large shot of the communist constabulary late confirmed) as well as they don't enshroud their persuasion – must come upwards as a huge disappointment to Mr Babiš who has null agreement for the concepts of republic as well as private freedoms. Just similar the leftists inwards the U.S., he would prefer a sure outcome. He would similar his Big Brother policies to live celebrated past times every unmarried citizen. He would in all probability hold off them to organize regular fireworks as well as rallies to limited their love as well as admiration for their greatest comrade Babiš. But something is missing. People aren't paying for fireworks as well as millions of people travel on on openly despising the communist apparatchik.
By the way, Babiš is trying to abuse every lawsuit to grow his ability as well as increment the set out of the stupid people who back upwards him. So he took a bizarrely ambiguous approach to the Tibet-Chinese state of war that late shook the Czech political circles. It's obvious to every intelligent mortal that Babiš has no values or principles as well as he entirely cares nearly his power. But a large fraction of the Czechs are unfortunately non intelligent.
Also, his concluding tweet earlier the U.S.A. presidential elections was that he had aught to practise alongside Trump as well as didn't back upwards him, despite all the lies. In his next tweet, he congratulated as well as praised Donald Trump. In that afterward tweet, he also said that he (Babiš) was surprised past times Trump's victory because "everyone was against him". Clearly, majorities inwards most U.S.A. states were supporting Trump hence it can't live truthful that "everyone was against him". But what Babiš wanted to say is obvious: He wanted to say that to purchase or overtake the authorities as well as the media should live plenty to hijack the political ability inwards the country. Well, it hasn't worked inwards the U.S.A. but Babiš is even hence trying to practise the same affair inwards Czechia.
This leads me to repeat the key signal of this spider web log post:
If you lot desire the same outcomes, namely the ideological unity, absence of opposition, guarantees that your dominion volition never destination etc., hence you lot demand the same consummate toolkit that the likes of Hitler as well as Stalin have got arranged for themselves, too.You only demand to accept over the constabulary as well as actively harass the people who dare to limited an inconvenient persuasion or who human activity similar an opposition. Both pro-Hillary fanatics as well as Andrej Babiš would love if all the opposition evaporated as well as all criticisms of their policies as well as candidates ceased to exist. Except that the basic rules of the U.S.A. as well as Czech club are even hence such that they just can't perhaps disappear.
I inserted a pic of the Higgs potential which has ii minima. In the context of this spider web log post, permit me telephone weep upwards the minima "freedom as well as democracy" as well as "totalitarianism". When you lot are somewhere inwards between, you lot are unlikely to remain there. When your club is closer to totalitarianism than it is to democracy, the emerging rulers figure out that they demand to – as well as already are able to – terminate the concluding traces of liberty as well as republic because they're threatening their plans.
And whenever the club is closer to liberty as well as republic than to totalitarianism, it only views the emerging signs of totalitarianism as hostile elements as well as tries to expel these hostile elements. So no province tin e'er live on for a long fourth dimension inwards an "equilibrium" betwixt totalitarianism as well as democracy. The real signal of totalitarianism is that the ruling cast doesn't desire to compete or portion its ability or live threatened – hence it agency that it doesn't similar whatever would-be equilibrium, either. That's why I recollect that the potential looks similar the Higgs potential.
That's also why every European or Western nation may rather sharply split the eras that were democratic from those that were totalitarian. There is rarely "anything inwards between", epochs whose status would live highly controversial. Czechoslovak territories have got lived inwards the totalitarian systems betwixt 1939 as well as 1945; as well as betwixt 1948 as well as 1989 (with a possible exception of a run of 1968 but this was such a curt flow that nosotros can't live surprised past times temporarily ill-defined labels).
So those of you lot – e.g. fanatical anti-Trump warriors or Andrej Babiš inwards Czechia – who only can't alive without the totalitarian outcomes, you lot may desire to openly adopt the totalitarian plans, otherwise your efforts won't succeed, at to the lowest degree non inwards the long run. Unless you lot are willing as well as able to live a full-fledged Stalin or Hitler, you lot are just their ludicrous caricature whose influence over republic volition live temporary.
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