(...The Democrats have one item on their agenda. It is to make sure the rich don't get any more even if that means the poor get less. How noble. The last thing they would ever admit is that making rich people richer helps the lower end more than any other action...)
I suspect that this is more a specific means, than an end. The vast majority of Democratic politicians realize that if their well-being were to depend on the perceived economic value of their services in an unhampered private sector, the results would be less than satisfactory. Thus self interest dictates that they instead choose to compete in a political market, rather than an economic one. Instead of having to create something of honest value to exchange with someone else, they can attempt to control bits and pieces of the force that is government to their own advantage. Since this would appear unattractive to even the fully indoctrinated portion of the electorate, political survival requires that attention be focused elsewhere. This is accomplished by the method of 'divide and conquer', where political calculation uses the human characteristics of envy, greed and fear to set one group against another. Rich and poor is just one axis. The only thing that might damage this highly successful strategy is that the electorate might somehow start perceiving themselves as individuals, rather than as members of the page one victimized group of the day. The Democrats have no monopoly on this procedure, but they have lowered the standard of being able to discard reality, truth and conscience to new depths.
Regards, Don |
