Shattering the Social Contract

The biggest threat to America and the world is the intransigence of its failed and corrupted leadership.

“social contract : an actual or hypothetical agreement among individuals forming an organized society or between the community and the ruler that defines and limits the rights and duties of each.”—Google

What does it mean to break the social contract?

“It follows that when any government usurps the power of the people, the social contract is broken; and not only are the citizens no longer compelled to obey, but they also have an obligation to rebel”—Google

1906-1975

If there are those of you who really are determined to know and understand our times reading Hannah Arendt is an essential starting point. Even reading excerpts from her book The Origins of Totalitarianism (as above) reveals her tremendous insight: ”The book describes the various preconditions and subsequent rise of anti-Semitism in central, eastern, and western Europe in the early-to-mid 19th century; then examines the New Imperialism, from 1884 to the start of the First World War (1914–18); then traces the emergence of racism as an ideology, and its modern application as an “ideological weapon for imperialism”,— Wikipedia