Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 117 Collision of Thoughts
Not long after, as the head of state carried out several more suppressions of the opposition, the atmosphere of white terror had reached its extreme within the senior leadership.

Immediately afterwards, the egalitarian faction, which has almost occupied all the media of public opinion, began to exert its strength.

Public opinion began to criticize Lord Color's white terror rule, and the atmosphere of white terror gradually spread from the top military officials to the people.

"The head of state is in trouble. A large number of media suddenly denounced us in unison, saying that we wantonly suppressed the opposition and promoted white terror. We demanded the establishment of a parliamentary system, voted to decide subsequent matters, and opposed dictatorship."

Although they have always been called a capitulation faction by Alpha Planet's top brass, in fact the other party's true ideological trend is that of an equalizer.

The mainstream trend of thought on Alpha Planet has always been extreme militarism.

The idea of ​​egalitarianism was a later trend that only gradually emerged after the intervention of the Earth United Nations.

This was supposed to be a struggle between egalitarianism and authoritarianism, but by chance it gradually changed into a struggle between equality and militarism.

Although egalitarianism and militarism are not mutually exclusive currents of thought.

However, the head of state did not show any special feelings about this matter. He just smiled.

No one knew what his smile meant in the end, but the decisions he made afterwards could make everyone's hair stand on end.

"Kill them all. Anything that hinders the rise of the empire will be crushed."

There was no problem at all with the militarist faction in the head of state's decision, and the militarist faction within the party also implemented it unconditionally.

Because in their eyes, egalitarianism means that you are a capitulationist, and it has always been their mission to attack the capitulationists.

The white terror before was only on the military, but now the white terror will officially hang over all people.

"Democracy, freedom, equality, justice, and the rule of law are the hallmarks of what makes a civilization a civilization, and they are also a key step for indigenous civilizations to move towards interstellar civilization. The dictatorial government's willful actions are destined to only lead the Alpha people to destruction. The fate of the Alpha people should be determined by All Alpha Stars decide."

“All people are born equal, which means that all individuals have equal political opinions in society, and that all people should receive social protection equally. Social protection includes legal rights, political rights, civil rights, equality regardless of race and gender. By gender, the government's policy is that there should be no preference based on a person's gender, race, or religious beliefs. Under egalitarianism, everyone will be treated equally, and everyone will..."

People in the news media spent their last moments talking about egalitarianism.

In the past, egalitarian propaganda did not directly conflict with militarism.

The only thing that conflicts with equality is authoritarianism, that is, dictatorship.

But at this moment, because of the long-term white terror rule of the Führer, all reactionaries have been labeled as capitulationists.

Egalitarianism is something from the Earth United Nations, and preaching equality means preaching surrender.

The capitulation faction has always been the first target of the militarist faction.

The advanced concept of egalitarianism is tantamount to a dimensionality-reducing blow to the backward native Alpha people. It is the ultimate ideal social form on the surface.However, because of proposing such a concept and promoting such things, all relevant personnel were arrested and shot.

The smell of blood has not dissipated in the major cities of Alpha Planet for several days. The Head of State issued the highest order, requiring that all relevant personnel be executed without leaving any one behind.

In a large square in the center of Alpha Star City, the smell of blood here has not dissipated even after so long. Although the ground has been cleaned, it is still tinged with blood.

A group of scientific researchers came here in the name of social research, and at this moment they did get a lot of precious first-hand research information.

"They seem to have killed more of their own people than they have killed us. Is this really okay?"

Unlike the people of Planet Alpha who were inside the bureau, the scientific research team members who were outsiders could look at this matter from the perspective of bystanders, so they discovered the leader's plan earlier than anyone else.

"The Alpha people have been suppressed by bugs for too long, and the extreme militaristic ideology has been deeply rooted for tens of thousands of years. If you want to change this status quo in the shortest possible time, you must detonate enough conflicts, and this will definitely require blood. Embellished.”

A researcher said.

"If I'm not wrong, all kinds of contradictions under the seemingly calm lake surface of Alpha Planet have accumulated to the extreme. The egalitarian trend of thought is very seductive, especially when dealing with authoritarianism, it can easily wash away the opponent's Ideology. It is the easiest to wash away among all the thoughts, and it is also the hardest to wash away.”

"Facing the impact of the egalitarian trend, it was supposed to be resisted by the authoritarian trend that conflicts with this trend, but now it is resisted by the extreme militaristic trend. Militarism and peace can obviously exist at the same time, but because of a series of operations, the people have been Equality and militarism in the heart have become two mutually exclusive ideological trends."

"Is the cleaning ability of equality thoughts strong?"

someone asked.

"Very strong. It only took a short time for the idea of ​​equality to completely become the mainstream thought of the United Nations on Earth and become an extreme trend. In this, authoritarianism was no match at all and was overthrown in no time. So the thought of equality was Either it doesn’t, and once it does, it can easily spread like a prairie fire, and the basic appeal of ideological trends is extremely strong.”

Chen Xiaomeng had dabbled in sociology before, so he took the initiative to explain it to everyone.

"Now Alpha Star is equivalent to pitting militarism and equality against each other. Between militarism and equality, the appeal of egalitarianism is higher than that of militarism. If they have to choose between the two, many people will choose equality instead of equality. Military state.”

"It is very troublesome to cultivate militaristic thoughts. The entire country needs to be in a state of war all the time to maintain the appeal of militaristic thoughts to the people. And if the country is in peace for a long time, then the attraction of militaristic thoughts will decrease exponentially until No one pays attention anymore.”

"So if nothing else happens, Alpha Planet should already be changing towards an egalitarian trend of thought."

"Of course, this is only the situation of folk thoughts. Although folk thoughts are reflected in the country's mainstream thoughts to a certain extent, in many cases the true expression of thoughts is still determined by the proportion of thoughts among the top government officials. After all, they are the ones who have the ability to adjust the development of the country. the power of the line."

As everyone walked in the city of the Alpha Star Empire, the originally lively streets had completely deserted. After walking for a long time, no one was seen. Everyone was hiding at home with their doors and windows closed.

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