Drones

The drone of the National Rifle Association about the Constitutional right to carry a weapon which can snuff out human life in a heartbeat falls apart on the face of another kind of drone. The Luddites of the NRA talk wheezily about the their fear that the government may take their guns away as part of a master plot to dissolve democracy in the U.S.. Ludicrous. The United States has never been a democracy. It is a republic at best and a plutocracy in daily reality. The plutocracy has morphed into a corporatocracy, rule by global corporations who manipulate elected officials, their fattened and willing puppets.

What will the proud owner of an automatic machine gun do in the face of a missile-hurling computerized drone when it is aimed at his house? Nothing. Technology has already made the gun obsolete as a method to ensure democracy or any other form of revolutionary politics in the U.S.. That technology is in the hands of the corporately controlled government. Game over. 

As long as populations crave technology, cheap consumer goods and individual entertainment over hard work, skill and social responsibility, there will be no place for democracy or socialism on the planet. Profits rule. The Prophet of jihad has no chance against the Profit of Walmart.