That explains why socialism is miserable. It turns feral because it always makes promises it cannot keep, and the primary skill of a successful politician is the ability to avoid responsibility.The one thing that I would change is the word socialism, replacing it with the ruling class. The problem is not a broad-based nationalization of industry, nor is it the traditional debate on marginal tax rates.
The problem facing this country is that "public servants" no longer scruple to pretend that they serve the public. The problem is a two caste system, with one set of rewards and constraints for the Government Class, and a different one for the rest of us. Out of control police departments, government union thugs on a rampage, Treasury Secretaries who don't pay their taxes, failing schools where the teacher's unions refuse to allow changes.
This is what John Edwards' "Two Americas" really looks like.
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The only reason those goons have any power is because everyone else gives it to them.
Jim
Spot on, Jay. The battle is not left-vs-right, or Democrat-vs-Republican, it is political class vs the rest of us.
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