The peasants are revolting! Yeah, they stink on ice!.........
Jeff should save himself by giving every last dime to the poor.
The peasants are revolting! Yeah, they stink on ice!.........
No way. This Dimocrat should fear the wrath of the people against the government. He should fear economic collapse in which case, we will have anarachy, repression and civil war. That’s no good for the poor, middle class or the rich.
IIRC, this is the guy who ran in 2010 for the Dem nod for the Senate. He lost to the genius Kendrick Meek who lost big to Rubio.
IIRC, this is the guy who ran in 2010 for the Dem nod for the Senate. He lost to the genius Kendrick Meek who lost big to Rubio.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
It is not inequality of wealth that leads people to revolt. Revolt occurs when those who have less come to believe that they have no opportunity to better themselves socioeconomically. America has done just fine, without class embitterment for most of its history - because it has been envisioned by most as the ‘land of opportunity’.
In short, it is class mobility that is essential to keep a system like our viable. Now we have large swaths of the population who don’t believe that they truly have the ability to move upward socioeconomically. They’ve been conditioned to think that they do not really have the opportunity or the ability to be upwardly mobile. This loss of the hope and belief that one can become better off on the basis of their own efforts is a dangerous step in the path toward socialism.
Europe was ripe for socialism because it was very hierarchical with no real opportunity for upward mobility. It remains very hierarchical, without much real opportunity for upward mobility, except they now use socialism as a way to keep resentment in check. This appears to be the model that Jeff Greene is espousing.
Forget party; forget taxes. Why don’t these rich dorks just donate 20% each of their worth to a big money pot, and personally distribute it to the poor, completely bypassing any government agency, which would only eat most of the money?
Because they’re not serious about paying taxes themselves. Any doubts about this will be removed by a quick look at the fleet of accountants and tax attorneys they pay.
Revolt of the poor? Give us a break already. Section 8, housing, free health care, food stamps, welfare, automobiles, ac, education, no taxes and on and on. Yup the pooor really have it rough in the old USA.
democracy is necessary as the means of making possible peaceful changes in government, so that a dissatisfied majority would not have to resort to revolution or civil war to have its way.