Epiphany:
The reason why the left-right dichotomy generally matches the urban-rural division is that urbanites largely thrive off re-arranging existing goods, while ruralites experience dirt & sweat as the source of all things. (Overstated indeed, but generally true.)
The “spread the wealth around” meme makes perfect sense if you think “wealth” is just tokens which can be redistributed: it’s all there, and capitalism just unfairly complicates the process of everyone getting a fair share. Every square inch is artificial and pre-exists. Hungry? just divvy up the contents of the grocery store, which always has enough. Poor? just move those dollars around without any of that pesky “earning” nonsense. Oh sure, we’ll all need to work, but work is just a matter of taking all this stuff and spreading it around, and maybe just kinda sticking some of it together or splitting it up; there’s enough for everyone if the “haves” would just stop hoarding it. Want dinner? there’s a carrot out there somewhere, just a matter of getting it in your hands.
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The “capitalism” meme recognizes that something comes from nothing thru great personal effort. This is starkly apparent in the country, where most everything is either nature untouched or one tilling removed. Hungry? tear away the undergrowth and shade-causing trees, turn over the soil, plant a seed, wait for weeks, water & weed often, and know the effort required to bring a single carrot into existence. Poor? do the same for a great many carrots at great personal effort, trading the result for other desired goods, using money to facilitate the exchange. We all need to work because if we don’t, _we_don’t_eat_ - not because some greedy capitalist is keeping carrots from us unless we pay him, but because there _aren’t_any_ carrots unless we labor for them. Want dinner? there are no carrots until someone coaxes nature to create one.
BHO, being a lifetime resident of major urban centers, axiomatically believes all wealth simply exists - and “fairness” dictates simply “spreading the wealth around”, presuming that all things are simply on one shelf or another, there for the taking if only the selfish would get out of the way. He thinks carrots come neatly shrink-wrapped from Whole Foods, not from dirt and sweat.
Your argument would make more sense if there was a clear correlation with work ethic and where you live. Actually, there is- the portion of Obama's supporters who are urban and educated tend to work longer hours and make more money than the portion of McCain's supporters who live in rural areas and have lower educational levels.
My wife and I are the target Obama demographic- two urban lawyers living in DC. Much moreso than people out in the provinces, we are going to get hit by Obama's plan to raise taxes.