Excellent opinion on the Middle Class (enemy, Barack Obama, speech, party)

[DRob4JC]

The Context Of Middle-Class Frustration

The middle class is the great enemy of collectivist politics, under any of its names: progressivism, communism, fascism, or “liberalism.” As far back as Karl Marx, the apostles of collectivism have understood that they must subjugate the middle class before they can claim total victory.

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The upper class isn’t a big problem – they don’t have the votes to block a collectivist agenda in a democracy, and they generally find ways to maintain, or increase, their power and wealth under a total State.

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The members of the lower class are generally seen as the clients of a collectivist movement, the recipients of the social benefits it promises. Their desperation and anger become fuel for the movement, providing both righteousness and voting power. The collectivist only needs to conceal any hope of finding prosperity beyond the generosity of the State, and keep the lower class convinced that government is the only moral actor in the economy. Review the speeches of Barack Obama, and search for anything that suggests the poor should look anywhere beyond the government and its social programs for salvation.

It’s clear that the middle class is the great enemy of collectivism. Only they have the combination of voting power, money, and economic self-interest to see the growth of government as undesirable, and provide effective resistance.

Read the whole article.

[harborlady]

Awesome. Now, if only R's didn't so woefully neglect the middle class...

AND the cosmic joke is everyone thinks if only we get our side elected, we can fix it. You can't fix it until you clean up the system in DC. Won't matter which party is in office until that's squared.