"From the time of Constantine there was an active alliance between the church and the political authorities.
"The [State] supported the church, gave it preferential treatment, helped it in its undertakings and expansion, gave special and privileged status to its personnel, protected their persons and possessions, put the secular arm at its service, accepted its advice, gave it an important role in the state's deliberations and decisions, and supported the claim of Christianity to absolute truth.
"The church in return had to support the secular authorities. It had to give them a part in its undertakings, become their public relations officer...
Democide – murder of people by a government which claims power over them – was the leading non-natural cause of death in the 20th century.
And people are terrified of anarchism.
GN-z11 is one of youngest and most distant galaxies ever observed by humans.
These deep field images always blow my mind with the immensity and majesty of the universe.
So they have a moronic neo-Marxist fascist vs. a moronic state-capitalist fascist as options for a figurehead ruler.
The Empire, its military, its intelligentsia, its media, its corporations, the deep state, and its ruling class (1%) all win, and everyone else (99%) loses. The outcome of every cycle.
Statist quo maintained.
Then, they do it all over again with different authoritarian, bread-and-circuses options in another 4 years. (Make sure you have extremely acrimonious conflicts about which vision of social domination and imperial order is best.)
Lather, rinse, repeat until you die.
The Powers rejoice.
Have fun voting... 😘✌️