The corollary to that: Why not conduct any atrocities you deem necessary?
It's not like the left's plan is co-existence with an honourably-defeated enemy, but rather the ideological extermination or a bunch of dangerous heretics.
It's not a necessity, it's a categorical imperative.
Rosseau explicitly stated that a reign of terror to coerce the rest of the population into compliance with "The General Will" is a moral good. From their perspective, atrocities are moral.
It's funny, isn't it, how this "General Will" always seems to align itself with communists?
Remarkably consistent, that, isn't it?
Mind you, it's not like the rest of communist literature isn't "Yeah, it's perfectly fine to genocide your enemies - if they didn't deserve it, they'd have submitted to you already!"
The only authority the Federal government appears to recognise is that of the exercise of power...
Leftism is a Philosophy of War.
Since everything is a Melian Dialogue, they acknowledge nothing else. This is why there are no other options besides victory.
The corollary to that: Why not conduct any atrocities you deem necessary?
It's not like the left's plan is co-existence with an honourably-defeated enemy, but rather the ideological extermination or a bunch of dangerous heretics.
It's not a necessity, it's a categorical imperative.
Rosseau explicitly stated that a reign of terror to coerce the rest of the population into compliance with "The General Will" is a moral good. From their perspective, atrocities are moral.
It's funny, isn't it, how this "General Will" always seems to align itself with communists?
Remarkably consistent, that, isn't it?
Mind you, it's not like the rest of communist literature isn't "Yeah, it's perfectly fine to genocide your enemies - if they didn't deserve it, they'd have submitted to you already!"