American symbols of power are the most undemocratic of symbols.
Presidents on aircraft carriers
Troops marching in order
Billion dollar airplanes
A White House with a big fence
TSA “safety” inspections
We worship symbols of American greatness that highlight the stratification of power and its leverage over others…not the equality of man
Well said.
Whenever a “safety” inspection of any kind happens it’s important to ask exactly who is being protected. Probably it is not you, or anyone remotely like you. If I’m standing as an armed man next to a police officer, it’s two armed men standing next to one another, the difference is the officer has the blessing of the wealthy elite class he’s sworn to protect and I do not. If they treated the proletariat as anything but impoverished slaves, they would have nothing to fear from an armed population, but that isn’t the case is it? A good and fair king has no fear of the guillotine.
