Jealousy; the motor of "The Fuck America Project"
This is a dangerous game the Republicans have been playing for quite some time, at least as far back as I can remember and probably since they defined themselves as "conservatives". It's the same attitude that sparked Franklin D. Roosevelt to say
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The attitude that lead to a statement of our common goals the Lyndon B. Johnson outlined:
“The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.”
Lyndon B. Johnson quotes
The rights goals have always been to protect the top 0.1% and the rest can go hang. The despicable shenanigans going on in Wisconsin by an authoritarian and indeed totalitarian governor and his cronies is coming to a head:
Though unions have offered concessions they say would close the state's budget gap, Walker remained determined to achieve a resolution that he said would give state and local governments leverage to limit employee costs well into the future.
How this is justified is by pointing to state employees good health care cover and pension plans and avoiding the lower salaries that these workers take home.
Make people jealous of one another is an easy method, if I don't have it they should not appeals to base and selfish instincts.
Rather than saying:
Who does not deserve the right of access to affordable and good health care, who does not deserve the right to live out their final years in peace and tranquility with a good pension? You also should have both affordable health care and a good retirement plan.
They say
Look at them, aren't they the lucky ones scrounging off the state; it's not as if they work for these privileges that the rest of you do not have. We must stop this discrimination and take their benefits away.
Always appeal to the baser instincts is the methodology of the right, inspire the base with jealousy and avarice never inspire social consciousness. Inspire hope with greed because one day never mind how slight the chance you might be one of the chosen few, so trample on your competitors before they trample you, what they fail to tell us is; the game is loaded in their favor.
It's only slightly different than authoritarian communism since there is no fallacy of shared property but they elite are the same.
Common suffering for all but a chosen few members of the Party. Treat the rich like royalty cause jealousy amongst the rest, divide an conquer.
This is the method the use to justify all their policies:
"Why should they have something you do not?"
Generate Jealousy.
Push everyone down.
This has been another installment of "The Fuck America Project."
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