Text: We now have the essentials--a huge army dominated by leaders far to the right of the rest of society, a vast chasm between a tiny rich minority and everyone else, and the proliferation of soap operas in prime time, despite the counterrevolutionary snubbing of The Sopranos at Sunday night's Emmy Awards.
Entailment: We have now got the necessities.
Contradiction: We do not even have the essentials yet!