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Making the Rich Richer and the Poor Poorer 2

From Delaware Liberal:

Conservatism's Success--Enriching the Wealthy

This is what conservatism is all about: the worship of the wealthy; the rest of it is just smoke and mirrors.

When you look beyond the smoke and mirrors to the actual behavior, well, there it is.

Words can lie. Behavior does not.

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2 comments

  1. Opie

    May 3, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    You must be delusional. Do you really think that the majorities that voted for conservative government since 1980 worship the wealthy? Do you think I do? Or is it more likely that the reason conservatism made such inroads in the last thirty years is exactly because liberals, instead of actually thinking about it, unwisely wrote it off as worship of the wealthy?

     
  2. Frank

    May 5, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    "Movement Conservatism" worships the wealthy.  Those who have been sucked into "movement conservatism" (like the entire damned Republican Party) worship wealth and the wealthy.

    Mike Huckabee is 100% on the mark when he refers to the "Club for Growth" as the "Club for Greed."  As much as I disagree with aspects of his theology, I respect his fundamental decency.

    "Movement Conservatism" is all about taking the United States back to the 1890s.  Grover Norquist has said as much.

    All the rest–the "family values," the "trickle down economics" (which even David Stockman admitted was a lie), the anti-immigration hysteria, the servility to gun nuts–is just to distract followers from their motive:  

    Make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

    Wake up and smell the damned coffee.  The Republican Party has corrupted itself beyond the wildest dreams of Tammany Hall, all in prostitution to wealth and the wealthy.

    (Don’t mince words, Frank, tell me what you really think.)