Smashing 'Demon Government' - JSOnline:
"...If you listen closely to the rhetoric of the new right, the libertarian message is hard to miss, and there are corollaries of that message that many Wisconsinites might find troubling:
• The liberty of the individual is more important than the welfare of the community. As long as we don't descend to total anarchy, 'I'll get mine' takes precedence over 'Let's get ours' every time.
• Everyone should have the opportunity to make just as much money as he or she can, beginning with the rich. The tea party faithful display a grim preoccupation with money: making it, growing it and preserving it intact from the clutches of a rapacious government. In time, they promise, the prosperity of the few will percolate down to the many. Try selling that one to the people of Chile or Argentina.
• The poor are responsible for their poverty. Some groups are truly deserving of help - the disabled and the frail elderly among them - but any able-bodied person of even modest intelligence should be able to get by without assistance from the rest of us. Forget generations of family dysfunction, centuries of entrenched prejudice or an economy that has shed entry-level jobs by the hundreds of thousands. This is America, where everyone has the same opportunities, isn't it?..."
Yeah, what would Jesus do?
2 comments:
he's probably tell his dad that this group isn't worth getting stuck to a cross for.
,,,and he would be right.
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