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From: The GOP is at its peak, but conservatism has hit rock bottom
I have a more heartless and less kind version of American conservatism. One that is the blind devotion of maintaining, on behalf of a select and finite group of Super-rich Conservatives, the Money-to-Wealth Pump that was established by Reckless Ronnie's distorted flat-rate upper-income taxation.
The one that looks like this:
It is by means of this mechanism that America arrives at its gross distortion of Wealth as Piketty has shown here:
The above demonstrates aptly the unfair tax-engendered "rip-off" by a minute section (0.1%) of upper-class Americans upon the rest of us. And for what?
What can they possibly do with all that money? Through lose inheritance taxation send it onto their children. Having replaced a monarch in America more than two centuries ago, all on our own, we have come back to the very same.
A "monarchy" of sorts but purely American in design - no kings or queens (except on Web celebrity pages). But plenty of plutocrats polluting electoral waters in order to "above all" not change the status of Upper-income Taxation in the US ...
Conservatives believe that human beings are fallible and prone to ambition, passion and selfishness. They (actually, we) tend to become swaggering dictators in realms where we can act with impunity — a motor vehicle department office, a hostile traffic stop, a country under personal rule. It is the particular genius of the American system to balance ambition with ambition through a divided government (executive, legislative and judicial). The American system employs human nature to limit the power of the state — assuming that every branch of government is both dedicated to the common good and jealous of its own power.
Conservatives believe that finite and fallen creatures are often wrong. We know that many of our attitudes and beliefs are the brain’s justification for pre-rational tendencies and desires. This does not make perception of truth impossible, or truth itself relative, but it should encourage healthy self-examination and a suspicion of all forms of fanaticism. All of us have things to learn, even from our political opponents. The truth is out there, but it is generally broken into pieces and scattered across the human experience. We only reassemble it through listening and civil communication.
And conservatives believe that a just society depends on the moral striving of finite and fallen creatures who treat each other with a respect and decency that laws can encourage but not enforce. Such virtues, often rooted in faith, are what turn families and communities into the nurseries of citizenship. These institutions not only shape good people, they inculcate the belief that humans have a dignity that, while often dishonored, can never be effaced. In the midst of all our justified skepticism, we can never be skeptical of this: that the reason for politics is to honor the equal value of every life, beginning with the weakest and most vulnerable. No bad goal — say, racial purity or communist ideology — outweighs this commitment. And no good goal — the efficiency of markets or the pursuit of greater equality — does either.
I have a more heartless and less kind version of American conservatism. One that is the blind devotion of maintaining, on behalf of a select and finite group of Super-rich Conservatives, the Money-to-Wealth Pump that was established by Reckless Ronnie's distorted flat-rate upper-income taxation.
The one that looks like this:
It is by means of this mechanism that America arrives at its gross distortion of Wealth as Piketty has shown here:
The above demonstrates aptly the unfair tax-engendered "rip-off" by a minute section (0.1%) of upper-class Americans upon the rest of us. And for what?
What can they possibly do with all that money? Through lose inheritance taxation send it onto their children. Having replaced a monarch in America more than two centuries ago, all on our own, we have come back to the very same.
A "monarchy" of sorts but purely American in design - no kings or queens (except on Web celebrity pages). But plenty of plutocrats polluting electoral waters in order to "above all" not change the status of Upper-income Taxation in the US ...
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