Here is a book that is clearly thought out and better written:
This book is also about to be the number one bestseller at Amazon.com.
Posted on 09/23/2005 7:37:16 AM PDT by Valin
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Good article - thanks for posting.
the premise that the democrat party is the party of the common man, the poor and downtrodden is patently false.
the democrat party wants to keep the poor man down so that they depend upon the charity of the democrat party. kinds like keeping them slaves on the plantation.
it's the republicans who want to get governmnet out of the lives of people so those people can rise above their current situation and propser - whatever their color.
What a great essay. I've said this for years, that one of America's great freedoms is the freedom to believe you can be rich someday. Why else do so many people go to casinos and play lotteries? Everyone has a shot at the gold in America. Each generation produces its own rags-to-riches stories that add to the legend of America and to the belief of every American that it might be them, or someone they know. Only a few nutty socialists really want this to go away.
the democrat party wants to keep the poor man down so that they depend upon the charity of the democrat party. kinds like keeping them slaves on the plantation.
I think that's the point of the piece.
yes, and i was echoing it. it needs to be repeated early and often - kinda like how democrats vote.
which is why they oppose voter ID's and/or inked fingers.
Good article, on second hand, great article!
BTTT
"The democrats are the party of the little guy"...one of my hot button statements. I've been known to raise my voice to complete strangers when I hear that.
Exactly. This pinpoints nicely just what you have to LACK to be a liberal democrat: the ethical sense not to condemn the rich for doing what any rational person would do if rich.
As I tell my Lib friends, we all want the same things. We want to eradicate poverty. We want people to be prosperous, happy and secure. We want people to be free.
We just disagree on how to achieve those things.
We're Right in the Middle.
Here is a book that is clearly thought out and better written:
This book is also about to be the number one bestseller at Amazon.com.
Yeah, like I'm going to sell out my values and beliefs so I can get an extra few dollars off the backs of my fellow citizens.
What the dems don't get is what they offer -- ( our own) dollars in exchange for "all we value" - isn't worth the trade.
What's the bribe for having me agree that killing a baby the day before it's born is OK? How much will they give me so I'll hate the military that protects me?
Creepy dems are so use to buying votes - like they do with the dependent poor. Their dream is to get us all feeding at the trough. And the price? What would it cost? Would they force shopping at high priced boutique stores where I have to pay through the nose, rather than Walmart? Yes they would. They're control freaks and they have their "pets" and I'm not one of them. They would control wages and time off and what I pay. And I suspect their Union buddies would make out well -- and that I wouldn't.
And I'd love to give up my home so their little envirowachos can have a beautiful place to backpack.
Yeah, I'm ready to give up all my values, beliefs and dreams so they can "pay me off" ... right around the time hell freezes over. I read the book -- it was silly, campus intellectual crap of the 1970s. These guys don't have a clue.
What IS the matter with KS? They always elect conservatives to represent them in DC but they have a liberal Democrat governor and a GOP controlled legislature that doesn't sound very conservative, based on what I read.
The cultural elite are far from sharing this humanity with the people they so quickly label as culturally backward, they are so far from the self-honestly required to have that humanity that they don't even understand it, let alone share it.
Yeah, and as long as the dems think the problem is we all imagine we can be rich someday, they'll lose forever.
The guy who wrote this still doesn't "get" it. He comes across as a brain-dead liberal college kid of the 1970s who is older but no wiser and still looks down on the working class. The "other". A working class which he imagines to be similar to sweet, young, but stupid waitresses. Doesn't have a clue. Really, no clue. None, nada, zip.
The writer of this piece might as well be a liberal if this is all the insight he can muster.
...they are so far from the self-honestly required to have that humanity that they don't even understand it, let alone share it.
Never works...
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