Thread:User talk:Blue/You are listening to the propaganda/reply (3)

Brx, I don't like you very much, and I think I've made that clear. That being said, I stick up for you because I refuse to let this community become a place where an authoritarian cronyism rules, and the more friends you have, the more powerful you are. When you get abused and the abusers walk away with impunity, that's one thing: the abuse can be quickly reversed till the next time. But when that abuse is community-approved, oligarchy has its foot in the door. Institutional anarchy is a patently absurd concept, isn't it? What we call the glorious mobocracy is just a gerontocratic, cronyist oligarchy where those with the most friends rule absolutely over those with the least friends. Rules don't make us authoritarian, our actions make us authoritarian. This is a difficult point for the wannabe oligarchs and their myopic lackeys to want to understand.