from Turtle Dude
You admitted to being a dem party activist. By definition that means you want dems to win elections. How do dems win elections>? they demonize the rich by promising to afflict the comfortable while making the wealthy pay more taxes to fund the giveaways they promise to their minions.
What you do in these rants is set up a ridiculous situation that makes sense to you and perhaps some of your fellow True Believers because you have accepted certain axioms of right wing ideology.
Let me allow you to peek behind the Democratic campaign curtain to show you what is really back there. As I have told you, I have worked for Democratic candidates in state races in my state. I offer advice, sometimes for a fee, sometimes for free. I help put on one or two day workshops for candidates in a crash course on how to run a campaign. I recently managed a campaign for a State Rep seat and in two weeks will become Chief of Staff in that office. The Rep I will be working for has already been given the task of joining with a more experienced legislator to help take back the state House. As such, part of my duties will be to help plan the drive to return the Dems to a majority in the State House in two years. It will involve selecting districts we believe we can win back, recruiting candidates we believe can win and raising money to assist them. Think of what Rahm Emanuel did on a national level in 2006 and 2008 and that is the same job I will be participating in.
If I showed you all the campaign literature we produced, and I wrote most of it myself, there is not one single word in there about taxing the rich or demonizing the rich or promising people more government services and allowing others to pay the bill for them.
Nothing. Not one word. Zip. Zilch. Nada. And this is in a district within a major city with some highly impoverished areas where somebody like you would tell us that a "soak the rich" message would be well received.
We ran against eight other candidates in the Democratic primary and not one had any type of "soak the rich" message. Not one. And several were far to the left of us.
In advising other candidates, I have never advised anyone to use a "soak the rich" campaign, even as a minor plank in a larger platform. That is reality. That is fact. That is how things are done in the real world of Democratic Party politics. That is not how we win elections. Not by any stretch of the imagination does it figure in to our politics.
If anyone is guilty of demonization, it is you. Over and over and over again, you trot out the same old talking points about your wealth, about your status, about your ivy league background, about you family, about your occupation and you see the Democratic Party as the enemy of all that. You have worked yourself into such a state of delusion and paranoia that you actually believe the ridiculous falsehoods that you write here every day.
The issue of taxation is a complex one and good and decent people can differ about it. Economists of vast experience and knowledge differ on the issue. But in your case, your position on taxation is motivated and driven by only one factor - how it impacts you as an individual. That is your sole motivation which propels you to embrace the radical right wing ideas you embrace like connecting the vote to paying of income tax. Just look at the poll conducted right here on this website where your idea was put forth before people. Of those who voted for either of the two main options, 50 people voted AGAINST your idea while only 4 voted FOR it. And if you read carefully one of those said they voted for it by mistake. And there are lots of conservatives here... well beyond a mere four.
I think you are so quick to accuse others of greed because you recognize it as your own major motivation. You conclude that as you operate so must others operate. You fail to recognize what you have been told time after time by many different posters here - they do not want your money for themselves, they only want to see a workable and sustainable society for all Americans. But since you have no interest in either, you reject such thinking as foreign and conclude that your own greed must motivate them as it does you.
As to your use of the word RETARDS.
Retards can mean many things. People who spawn like rabbits with multiple partners are 'retards' people who drop out of school because they are spawning like rabbits or doing drugs are retards in my book as well.
Now you dig the hole deeper and I would guess that with you there is no bottom in sight. You have placed that bet and lost and now are going to double the next one. Its your funeral. No thinking individual in this age uses such words anymore outside of cretins, jerks and just plain fools. You have exposed your lack of character to all here to see with such a slur. You could quickly apologize for the slur. You could promise to avoid such a slur in the future. But you will not.
