Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Monday, October 31, 2011 2:01:10 PM
I wanna suck on a nanny state.
Yesterday Left Turn wrote:
"Apollo
Bailouts for the richest = good.
For anyone else? = moral hazard = socialism = marxism = evil.
You call this fair? You call this justice? You call this democracy?
BTW
The top 1% write the laws to benefit and enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us. This is what Sam means by the 99% not having any control. And you make it into an issue of self-control and personal choices. Apples and oranges Apollo. They are two separate things. Sam is right: we [TPers and OWSers] are all in the same boat and should be marching and protesting together."
To this I reply,
Your post is entirely based on the false Marxist notion that we live in a fixed class, zero sum game-I win you lose-economic system where the 1% super-rich game it to their overwhelming advantage at the expense of us victimized peasants-keeping us 99%ers at 99% to serve their insatiable, bottomless greed. This is regressive, delusional, social justice thinking out of whack with the reality of our free, dynamic, upwardly mobile, wealth expanding society. Was Michael Moore born a 1%er LT? Was Steven Spielberg, Alec Baldwin or Arianna Huffington? No. They exerted to the utmost their God given gifts and talents and entered the ranks of the 1% rich from below-from the "unchangable rut" that you and I are supposedly in (Sam's 99% boat). With these living examples of success before you, you and the other gimme-gimme-stuff-for-free (because the evil rich are oppressing me) lefties haven't a leg to stand on in your mindless war on wealth and success-led by our failing, demagogic millionaire president. Greed and corruption on Wall Street aren't killing your chances of success LT-in good and bad times there's always been sin there. Stop demonizing the 1%ers as evil, exploiting capitalist pigs robbing you blind of the American Dream, keeping you a loser manacled in chains-as the lying, hypocritical Michael Moore and Nancy Pelosi say. In our constitutional, free market system your chains are self-made.
What do you mean I have an infantile political disorder?
Stop your whining and crying and grow up LT. Transcend this politics of victimization and take control of your life and destiny. Let unfairness spur your efforts on the path to personal victory. "Become," as the saying goes, "the best that you can be" and fortune will favor you to some degree. You might not make it to the top and conquer everything you want and dream. But often those who try to scale the heights are better off than those who don't. Materially we can hope for nothing more in this dog eat dog world.