I believe this with all my heart: Real conservatives don’t have wealth envy. We celebrate people who have worked hard and earned the fiscal benefits of doing so. We aspire to do the same if we can, and if we can’t, we recognize that with equal work, not every outcome will be the same.
The Left doesn’t do that. Everything is about envy. Race envy. Money envy. Fun envy. Sex envy. If EVERYONE can’t have a beachfront home (except them and their fellow elites, of course) then NOBODY should have a beachfront home.
God, how I despise Leftism.
There’s a lot of truth in that.
I have family members that were able to purchase homes. Their marriages were stable enough where the two of them could pull together and make things happen.
That didn’t happen for me. It could have, but the two people in my life used the prospect of better times just ahead, to see it as an opportunity to shake things up.
I’m not angry at them. I’m very happy for my family members.
Life is what it is. You decide to be happy or you decide not to be.
When I was trying to instill this in two others in my life, they wouldn’t listen.
As for people who are wealthy, I enjoy seeing their lifestyle. I don’t compare my circumstances to them.
I don’t go home from nice places and grind over the idea my place isn’t as nice.
I would like someday to become wealthy, and so I treat the wealthy with respect. They found a way to build wealthy where I didn’t. That one thing about them is what I envy.
There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of me demanding new taxes or some other sort of attachments to their wealth. And when they die, I want 100% of what they had accumulated handed down to their kids.
I’m very against the concept of wealth redistribution in any form.
If people want more in their life, they need to get off their ass and hustle. That includes me.