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Comment by Burbia on October 17, 2015 at 3:58pm

We also have the likes of Leo Strauss and his disciples being of immense influence to the regimes of current dictating our decent into oppression.
 "Strauss believed that "those who are fit to rule are those who realize there is no morality and that there is only one natural right – the right of the superior to rule over the inferior." " - A source reflecting on Strauss that being Shadia Drury.


Here are three principles of Strauss adding to the control of the US and its impact on the worldl:

1- Deception

Another anaylist describes Strauss with this statement, "The people are told what they need to know and no more." Also, "Not only did Strauss have few qualms about using deception in politics, he saw it as a necessity."

2- Power of Religion

 "Strauss viewed religion as absolutely essential in order to impose moral law on the masses who otherwise would be out of control." -
"_he stressed that religion was for the masses alone; the rulers need not be bound by it."

3- Aggressive Nationalism

"Because mankind is intrinsically wicked, he has to be governed," he once wrote. "Such governance can only be established, however, when men are united – and they can only be united against other people."
"Following Machiavelli, he maintained that if no external threat exists then one has to be manufactured(emphases added)."
As to what a Straussian world order might look like, the analogy was best captured by the philosopher himself in one of his – and student Allen Bloom's – many allusions to Gulliver's Travels. In Drury's words, "When Lilliput was on fire, Gulliver urinated over the city, including the palace. In so doing, he saved all of Lilliput from catastrophe, but the Lilliputians were outraged and appalled by such a show of disrespect."

We see here that basically the saying don't shit where you sleep is disregarded, achieving the goals of political dominance.

Strauss and Alinsky have been of great influence to the political powers we have been subjected to. This being of course the neoconservatives'.

Source:

http://www.alternet.org/story/15935/leo_strauss'_philosophy_of_Deception's