For real half-wits, try some Republican pols who vote as puppets of the Koch syndicate.
The GOP wants America's economic elite at the apex of power and personal indulgence with the rest of America driven to the worst in wages and working conditions. Such would allegedly create economic growth -- but that only a few could enjoy.
Few people want to lick the boot attached to the feet of the owner who has every right to kick one. Besides, who in his right mind would want to be a helpless peasant?
What's happened is politicians have told Americans that they deserve the American Dream on a silver platter. The asset class and upper classes are never going to fall for political parlor tricks so they lobby for a way out of the system. They have their own tax system (capital gains/dividends), their own medical system (no insurance or patient-pay), their own retirement system and their own income/expense regulations (commercial regs). Politicians need the productive classes so they let them have their own set of rules.
The rest of us are stuck on the Animal Farm. The government taxes us during our youth to pay for mismanaged Social Security and Medicare programs. Fiscal mismanagement crowds out investment federal investment spending so each generation of animal works harder to pay the bills.
The dumb little donkeys bray for someone to clean up the stye. The elephants look out into the wilderness and they contemplate ways to escape. There is a fundamental difference between domesticated beasts of burden and the feral middle-class.
So the wealthy elite is forcing two different standards so that they are not at all effected from normal taxation laws and everyone else gets stiffed?
Good analysis (seriously not sarcastic right now. No really, I'm not).
Statist liberalism is an ideology that was created by Wall Street, FDR and crew to subvert the originally radical left from making the significant and real progress that the country required. In place of ideologies that attacked both Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue the Grand Sachems devised a system (much like in Stalinist Russia) where support for societal equality has been replaced by a system that encourages worship and devotion to the almighty fascistic state and support for all actions (emphasis mine) that encourages any and all growth of the state and of all statist actions. Meanwhile, advocates of this system can claim to feel good about themselves because "the rich are getting taxed their fair
90%, 70%, 50% 39.5%", hoping that none of the dumb sheeple notice that said high rates only refer explicitly to standard W9 wage taxation and not to the incredibly smaller and more generous Capital Tax System with it's liberal amount of loopholes that allow such parasites as Warren Buffet who brags about how much less taxed he is than his secretary to prosper (and really "liberals", why aren't you asking the real questions about humanitarians like Buffet, like why he pays his Secretary such a sh*tty salary if he is such a successful person?).
Of course the real solutions needed scare the "liberals" in this country scareless. A lot of Democrats, especially the anti-proletarian bourgeois class who sneer at everyone beneath them, are actually conservatives who hath taken up the cause of "Social Liberalism" to distract from their actual societal conservatism in promoting the continuation of their diseased parasitic culture that has been waging a war against the working masses since time immemorial. A few decades ago they would've proudly touted the label "Rockefeller Republicanism" to signify that they were "anti-racism" by dragging blacks out of Southern Jim Crow regimes and putting them into a new nationwide Jim Crow that we'd all like to call "the War on Drugs". Of course with the success of dumb reactionary populism in the GOP, they had to shift parties to Third Way Clintonialism which continues to rule the "party of the Working Class" that pretends to really want 60% income rates but can't get them because of "mah GOP obstructionism!"
The truth is that you are actually partly right, dear libbie troll. The state and the wealth bastards they are assigned to protect from birth are a real problem. And as long as both continue to exist they will keep on giving each other the proper wank off. Where I imagine we disagree though is the means we need to take to stop it which is full tilt violent revolution. I imagine many establishment liberals are now scoffing at this, as they have been conditioned all of their lives to think that State=God and not the institution by which the inherently reactionary society exists. The time for pragmatic and well reasoned solutions is far past, the populace can only truly prosper if there is a strong dissolution of the marriage between Big Capital and Big Government.
So yes, consider this my official coming out as an Anarchist.
