Proscription lists were a big thing in Roman Republican times. The dictator, consul, whoever managed to represent power in Rome, might write out a list of names of people that are earmarked for death or exile (which also meant property confiscation).
This was not the only civilization to have used this method of informing a group of people it was time to die or leave because the person in power hates you now, but it might have been one of the more showy examples of the use of such a political weapon of war.
As of late, however, America is looking to dethrone Rome as the showiest executor of Proscription List politics, where we start with people who SAY immoral things by our definition and we extend those lists out to cover ANYONE who supports ANYONE on the proscription list of choice.
Fortunately, here in America there is no one power that has such absolute control over a land as the dictators (de facto or self-identifying) of Rome had, at least over those seven hills where the other peole of power also lived. But the internet has put all of us right next to each other, and we can kill people these days without actually altering their physical state, at least not directly.
We kill your ability to make a living, to be a member of society. The We being the people who gain the most out of the continued use of proscription lists in our ‘marketplace of ideas.’
Now, this proscription listing is turning on the billionaires themselves, many of whom have been enabling this behavior by negotiating or capitulating to the proscriptioners (I think that’s a great name for them) altogether. They’ve even been funding the special interest groups that also utilize the proscriptioning method of politicking within the confines of an alleged republic.
And now, the proscriptioners are coming for them, and, whatever you feel about these enablers of the very beast that looks to gouge them, this should make you worry about the chances we might have getting this ship back on some semblance of a Federal republic with a Bill of Rights core course, for now the proscriptioners are looking to ultilze corporate power to attack corporate power over who you support politically. It is no longer corporately viable to support any party but the DNC.
This article that calls for the billionaires to be sussed out and destroyed is written in Forbes. Yes, I realize Forbes has laregly degenerated to mostly a blog that represents a vast array of humans of vastly different views, but that name, Forbes, for the casual, still means something significant as far American republicanism is concerned, so to see an article like this appear in a publication with that legacy branding concerns me, for now we are attempting to normalize among the so-called Rule of Law group a countenance of the use of corporate banning and social spamming to silence support for the only major political opposition to one party, the DNC.
It is as if the DNC crowd imagines they really are the vast majority with all the power, and sometimes, friends, we wonder if that just might be true. If you reject this type of politicking, proscriptionism, then don’t support corporate bannings and social shamings, even when it targets your own political enemies.
In January, 147 lawmakers in Congress voted against certifying the 2020 presidential election results. Above, legislators meet to count the Electoral College vote from the 2008 presidential election in January 2009.
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At least 41 billionaires gave money over the last four months to legislators who voted against certifying the presidential election, according to a review of Federal Election Commission records filed in July.
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