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These are virtually all tax-derived fortunes. Thus unlike in the past when the pie was getting bigger, but just with the growth being divvied up 'inequitably' so to speak, now we are actively taking from the working poor and middle class, and handing out to the rich. And BTW DC had already become a boomtown under W Bush. It only metastasized under the present admin.
In 1970, there were less than 200 lobbying offices in DC. In 2014, there are thousands of lobbying offices in DC. Corruption and Bribery is Big Money
Thats exactly the issue that will drive this to a political topic, if the pie was getting bigger, and people were sharing in that expansion-even if in a unequal fashion...this would not be an issue.
We bashed the Soviet Unions Communism where the majority of the wealth was held at the top and everyone else was worse off due to corrupt policies and now we are in the same boat.
We bashed the Soviet Unions Communism where the majority of the wealth was held at the top and everyone else was worse off due to corrupt policies and now we are in the same boat.
Ever been to Russia? Our poor live much better than their poor did under communism and much better than their poor now.
Our middle class has been under assault but we still have a middle class. Russia never has.
Yes, the American poor live better than most. The problem is they want to live like the rich without doing anything to get it.
Yes, I mean god forbid they want medical or dental care! Or maybe be able to have some opportunity, OMG they might start thinking they have a chance to change class levels next!
Please Petch, why dont you try and spend at their level sometime, and come back and tell us how awesome they have it.
And yet if you read here on CD you get statements like inequality does not exist, or it doesnt matter.
People say it doesn't matter because it doesn't matter. The only reason inequality is a "threat" is because liberals use it as a wedge issue and fan the flames of peoples' resentment and jealousy.
Racial and gender inequality do not exist on any appreciable level anymore. Wealth inequality most definitely does exist, but it poses no actual threat. Someone else having more money than I do does not affect my lifestyle. It's something that liberals have an inexplicable inability to comprehend. They get their panties in a twist at the thought that someone else has a dollar more than they do.
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Turns out its considered the most serious threat here in the US.
Because liberalism, the philosophy of open mindedness and compassion, in actuality runs on fear and hatred. Liberal politicians consistently use a tactic of separating a segment of society and then setting that segment against the rest with promises to be that segment's champion if elected. Their version of appealing to minorities is not to make life better for them, but to demagogue that special interest group's anger and fear. If you elect Republicans they will put black people back in chains! Republicans are waging a war on women! Republicans are homophobic!
The inequality is in peoples' minds, not in reality. The law makes discrimination illegal, and that's as far as government can go. Government does not have the capacity to force a bigot into feeling and thinking differently. While racism and sexism exist on an individual level, equality under the law has been achieved already. America is a free country, and that means racism and sexism not only will exist but they must exist. A nation isn't free when the people are not left to their own devices to think whatever thoughts they want. Eliminating discrimination in the public sector is the limit of what the government should be involved with.
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I suspect the road to the presidency in 2016 will revolve around this topic. Hopefully reasonable solutions are suggested, and not anything drastic.
You can bet if Hillary Clinton is a candidate that the Democrats will bring back their war on women.
The people of the US believe that inequality is the largest threat.
No, it is seen as the largest "wedge issue" to divide people into groups with animosity toward each other.
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And yet if you read here on CD you get statements like inequality does not exist, or it doesnt matter.
Actually, inequality of outcome is not only not a threat, it is absolutely essential to a healthy and prosperous society.
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Turns out its considered the most serious threat here in the US.
No, it's not a threat. It's CALLED a threat by people who have no rational or otherwise sound arguments to promote themselves as absolute rulers. It is, of course, an ideology based upon exploiting envy, jealousy, and anger to divide, conquer, and rule.
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I suspect the road to the presidency in 2016 will revolve around this topic. Hopefully reasonable solutions are suggested, and not anything drastic.
Of course it will. It is the "prime evil" of our society today. It is the ONLY viable argument left that the left has, to ingratiate itself with the segment of the population that allows itself to be manipulated by the base and evil passions that lead to violence and death.
People say it doesn't matter because it doesn't matter. The only reason inequality is a "threat" is because liberals use it as a wedge issue and fan the flames of peoples' resentment and jealousy.
Of course. When things are going badly, the best diversion is to define a scapegoat, as has been done in several tyrannical regimes of the 20th century.
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Racial and gender inequality do not exist on any appreciable level anymore.
They don't exist as a laws that enforce them - except for some liberal efforts to legally define groups as "not equal".
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Wealth inequality most definitely does exist, but it poses no actual threat. Someone else having more money than I do does not affect my lifestyle. It's something that liberals have an inexplicable inability to comprehend. They get their panties in a twist at the thought that someone else has a dollar more than they do.
You're wrong. They know it doesn't matter, and they don't "get their panties in a twist", the "outrage" is purely fictional, it's nothing more than the ugliness of grade school kids trying to make their clique the "cool" one and do so by pitting others against each other. It's most juvenile, anti-intellectual, and anti-equality behavior to exist in our society today.
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