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They aren't, generally. Given the condition of the lowest of our nation, "traitors" isn't an unreasonable way to describe the 1%, and no one in the 1% has ever
by kick 7y ago
They aren't, generally.
Given the condition of the lowest of our nation, "traitors" isn't an unreasonable way to describe the 1%, and no one in the 1% has ever seen a firing squad or the electric chair. Not even lethal injection. If they aren't subject to the same rules as Americans, are they really Americans? If they have a higher amount of wealth than sovereign countries, can they be considered anything but sovereign?
- bzbarsky 7y ago1% of the US population is something like 3 million people; let's say about 2 million adults. Do you really think that there are 2 million adults in the US who have "a higher amount of wealth than sovereign countries" and that the US should go and execute 2-3 million of its citizens?
- umeshunni 7y ago> Do you really think that there are 2 million adults in the US who have "a higher amount of wealth than sovereign countries" and that the US should go and execute 2-3 million of its citizens Germany did in the 40s. There's a reason this rhetoric popular with the socialists in the US sounds very familiar.
- bzbarsky 7y agoActually, the number of German citizens (or ex-German-citizens, given that German Jews were stripped of citizenship) executed by the Third Reich was "only" about 200,000-300,000 [1], which was about 0.3-0.4% of the population (~70 million). So sort of in the ballpark of "1%", but not even close to 2-3 million, given the much smaller population. Lots more killing of non-German citizens, of course... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#Deaths_due_to_Nazi_political,_racial_and_religious_persecution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War...
- umeshunni 7y agoWhy stop at 1% and not 5% or 10%?