October 17, 2022

Corruption has a rebellion element to it. By the time corruption gets to its most extreme state as Nazism, rebellion is the central concern. In other words, the complexities of life are stripped away as corruption increases leaving little more than rebellion at the end-point with Nazism.

Rebellion was the starting point of institutionalizing corruption by the Reaganites. They said their purpose was to get the government off their backs. That's a rebellion against government. Reagan said, government is the problem.

The Reaganites said they were creating a new normal. In essence, they were rebelling against the normalcy that placed demands upon them.

Where the new normal would end up was beyond the imagination of the Reaganites. They were assuming that everything would work better after getting rid of some unnecessary force, as if automobiles would be manufactured more easily and education would be more of a bliss. Everything would supposedly work better without some forces that Reaganites were trying to get rid of.

Therefore, it is important to understand the forces that the Reaganites, and corrupters in general, were trying to get rid of. Corrupters couldn't be wrong about forces acting against them. In fact, Trump is highly focussed on such forces, which he claims are creating unfairness to him.

Corrupters can't imagine what those forces are or why they exist, as evidenced by their naivety is expecting society to just get rid of those forces and the assumption that only the stupidity of fools created such forces.

The basic force that corrupters are trying to get rid of is the opposition to corruption. That statement is tautologically ridiculous to corrupters, because they assume their standard is the flawless reference for existence, not a corruption. They assume that the opposing forces are the corruptions.

Simply defining corruption would be irrelevant to corrupters. They evaluate nothing. Instead, they flow with forces starting with their motives. So when they feel forces acting against them, those forces have to be wrong.

What then in clear and simple terms is the corruption that creates forces acting against corrupters? Lawlessness is one way to describe their corruption. They don't assume laws should exist, because laws create the forces that they rebel against.

So the conflict needs to be viewed in terms of what happens when such persons recognize no validity in laws. What happens is that they violate the rules that society has created. To corrupters, that is a good thing rather than a bad thing, because they assume society should never have imposed rules upon them.

The reason why society created rules is the reason why corrupters are corrupters. There are boundaries around what is acceptable. Government creates the most demanding rules as laws, which made government the first concern of the Reaganites.

For example, Reagan broke laws which put Trump to shame in getting elected. The Reagan bunch (They always give their ruler deniability regardless of how ridiculous.) broke every law in the book to get Reagan elected. They went to the Iranians and told them not to release U.S. hostages before the election so as to make Carter look like an incompetent. For private citizens to get involved in governmental activities is a serious violation of the law.

Then to use government activities to advance election concerns is a serious violation of another group of laws. Then the Reaganites traded weapons for hostages as the payout for their cooperation—another bunch of laws being violated. Persons like Reagan and his followers (the emerging conservatives) despised such laws getting in their way.

Later, Congress created a law (the Boland Amendment) requiring the Reagan Administration to stop fighting a war against Nicaragua. The criminals kept doing the same thing with slight change in rhetoric.

The Reaganites couldn't be prosecuted any more than the Trump group could. Not the least reason is because the lawlessness was diffused so thorough through a large group that the origins and boundaries were undefinable. And that problem is exactly why lawlessness is intolerable. It adds up to overwhelming destructivity which cannot be corrected when there is no respect for rule of law.

Consider why election laws disallow using the government as a tool for getting elected. It's because doing so is how totalitarians prevent anyone from getting them out of power once they get elected. Hitler got elected to originally get in power. Then the Nazis hung their political opponents in the streets until they had no more opponents.

Corrupters assume that putting them in power forever is the proper state of social existence as shown by twenty some states rewriting their election laws to make sure conservatives never lose another election.

So there is an underlying factor to the equation of corrupters taking over the social order. It's why not control society the way corrupters do. There are infinite examples in failed states. Totalitarians brutalize a large part of their society to stay in power.

From the perspective of corrupters, all anyone has to do is support the ruler, and all will go fine. What they miss is their total incapability of functioning constructively, while the whole social order deteriorates under their control. There needs to be a lot of problem solving activity to keep a social order functioning, while corrupters despise the purpose of solving problems, because the rationality exposes them as the incompetent corrupters that they are.