A standard post-homicide defense in B-westerns was "He drew first." Likewise, in police procedural killings, it was sometimes necessary to plant a gat on the corpse.
This is the classic stance for conservative rationale, and has been from the beginning. Herbert Spencer, coiner of the phrase "Survival of the Fittest," pitched his own über-capitalist against the albatross of the human parasite, the lowly slacker, and his American acolyte William Graham Sumner lectured in 1882:
If, then, there be liberty, men get from (nature) just in proportion to their works, and their having and enjoying are just in proportion to their being and their doing. Such is the system of nature. If we do not like it and if we try to amend it, there is only one way in which we can do it. We can take from the better and give it to the worse
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This is a fine and heroic sentiment, with the added attraction of simplicity; it's only the child's parable of the Grasshopper and the Ant, after all.
However, as in any parable, there are some parts left out. Not every soul blessed in abundance has earned that stature by hard work, nor is every representative of the downtrodden masses an easy rider.
Yet the demonizing of the demi-monde was seen as a helpful mechanism, and it has been utilized from our earliest days. The survivors of the genocide by which their land was taken from them were designated as drunken bums who only wanted to lie around the reservation. In an 1881 essay, Helen Hunt Jackson responded to that slander.
Of (the total number of Indians in the US), 130,000 are self-supporting on their own reservations, "receiving nothing from the government except interest on their own monies or annuities granted them in consideration of the cession of their lands to the United States." This fact alone would seem sufficient to dispose forever of the accusation, so persistently brought against the Indian, that he will not work.
Growing up in rural Texas, I heard the constant denigration of the unfortunates, in slogan and jokes, brought to bear against the Native Americans to the north, the Blacks among us, the Latinos down south. It is a necessary expedient, a prophylactic against ordinary human charity.
A ship of state, decommissioned, gathers rust on its hull and bilgewater in its hold. Never in the history of a supposed first-world nation has such a large core of its polity radiated such ignorance, insanity, insipidity as we detect on the right today. That first fundamental format is seen in the Repugnant refrain about taking the money of the white and giving it to undeserving blacks.
It works so well for them they've deployed it in other bigot brigades. Gays are not born, they are perverse underminers of the Family, and if they don't want to be ostracized, they can just stop doing what they are doing, like burglars. Also, rape cannot be used to justify abortion because there is a native spermicide all women release when invaded against their will, so "legitimate" rape never results in pregnancy.
Adding volition to victims is an ancient process, only now we are arrived at some very nutty extremes. We can laugh at the fools and their folly ... until we remember their candidate is still polling well enough to render reasonable the potential that this madness become the law of the land.