Class Dismissed...(Democrat class warriors try, but fail, to keep down the poor)

American Spectator ^ | 8/30/2006 | Lisa Fabrizio

[IrishMike]

Democrats often portray themselves as a beacon to the poor and especially protectors of the sacred American middle class. They are prone at almost any time to break into song over the way Republicans "cater to the rich" by cutting taxes and "balance the budget on the backs of the poor."

The ultra-liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which has now become its dominant voice, is essentially made up of socialists, or those who endorse one of their main tenets: state-controlled distribution of wealth. They might couch these ideas in wholly American terms like workers' rights, or claim that it's really only "for the children," but make no mistake about it; they endorse the mantra of Papa Karl Marx.

Only they've developed a slightly different riff. While the ending of class warfare was a goal of Marx, its continuance is very much a tool of the American left. Its adherents despise the bourgeoisie just as much as he did and they are dedicated to ensuring that millions of Americans never join those ranks, thus remaining a dependable voting bank for them.

Their disdain of the American "ruling class" manifests itself in many ways; their anti-Capitalists team up with trial lawyers to bring down our industry, their environmentalist wing seeks to curb human progress, their "peace" activists would stop the spread of Democracy while their educational and media branches sugarcoat the above for those who don't know what's good for them.

In their efforts to save the poor and middle class from themselves and the evils of the American Dream, liberals have stepped up their crusade against Wal-Mart. In blue-state enclaves across the country, liberal big wigs have come out to disparage the nation's largest private employer on charges that it underpays workers and stiffs them on benefits.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I believe that Churchill said it, " Equal misery under Socialism, instead of unequal wealth under Capitalism."

[listenhillary]

Very good article.

[MosesKnows]

For the record.

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

[TangoLimaSierra]

The Libs have used the ghettos for decades to breed voters.

[MosesKnows]

Democrats often portray themselves as a beacon to the poor
Republicans "cater to the rich"

My father used to say:
The Republicans are the party of the rich.
The Democrats are the party of the poor.
The Republicans want as many people as possible to be rich.
The Democrats want as many people as possible to be poor.
Which would you rather be - rich or poor?

If these observations were reasonably accurate then my father’s logic was correct.

In order for the party of the rich to garner more votes, that party would assist as many Americans as possible to be rich.

Then this must also be true.

In order for the party of the poor to garner more votes, that party would assist as many Americans as possible to be poor.

[JLGALT]

"In order for the party of the poor to garner more votes, that party would assist as many Americans as possible to be poor."

Wonderfully said!

[Leisler]

"the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries..."

Every socialistic society has it's royalty, upper class, favored, from Lenin to Castro to the Kennedys.