This is Obama’s goal. Eliminate the middle class, and create two classes, the Nomenclatura-elites and the masses of poor, dependent on the government.
Guess which class Obama and his Marxist buddies are in.
I think they are quite successful.
I read they’ve added 17 million to the food stamp rolls in 2 years.
Guess which class Obama and his Marxist buddies are in .
I would say the useful-idiot class. Look at Europe: how many taxpayers are storming the streets, angrily (and sometime violently) making their displeasure about high taxes known?
None of them. Instead, the anger's coming from thwarted entitlement mentalities angry about their subventions being cut.
I can't figure out why, but it's the takers who are more aggressive than the makers. Impinging on so-called "positive rights" tends to cause riots; impinging on so-called "negative rights" (i.e., liberty) produces peaceful protests at most.
Europe and the U.S. are fortunate that Communism has been generally discredited, because the above-noted disparate reaction is a revolutionary Communist's dream - especially given the U.S. government fingers the likes of you guys as the 'domestic terrorists'.
One side note: Atlas Shrugged, despite its sparks, is oddly quietist with respect to politics. Its underlying political message is: "If you're good, you can only win by escaping." Despite this theme being profoundly anti-Nietzschean - who else but a slave wins by escaping? - Rand is still called Nietzschean. Go figger.