I was talking to a sheeperal about the unsustainability of the spending and debt levels, and the resulting economic collapse that would ensue,
and the only comment she had was that it would be OK because then “we’d all be in the same boat”.
That really puzzled me for a bit, then I said “OH! yeah, I forgot! Liberals believe it’s better for all to be equally impoverished than for some to have more than others!”
Of course, the denial followed.
I’ve gotten denials when I pointed out the “liberal” mindset to this person before, usually followed by a “but” that confirms the exact thing I just said.
I long ago observed the the envious view from the bottom among SOME left-leaning subjects...if they cannot raise themselves up it’s better to even the score by dragging others down with them. Sad but true. I don’t think it practice it’s all that rewarding after the fact. I think it entails more competition for entitlement resources, right? Seems to me...
“....it would be OK because then “we’d all be in the same boat”.
It’s pretty amazing, isn’t it?
They just don’t see it.
They don’t see that if they got their wish, they themselves would be in the rice fields right along with those rich people they hate. They somehow think that they would be exempted from that imposition of social and probably economic order in which those evil rich would be stuck working the rice fields. And in their vision, it would be BETTER THAN IT IS NOW for them to see those former rich people in the rice fields, EVEN IF IT MEANT that they themselves would be in those same rice fields. But see, they NEVER go that one neuron farther, they never think it through to ponder why it would be that THEY would be exempt from the slavery, the torment they would wish on others.
Why is that? It’s a peculiar form of willful blindness, or, perhaps, this is what the prototypical statists saw when they advocate and work for the dumbing down of the citizenry; that they are just waiting for that day when the median voter can no longer assemble sufficient neurons to look that one thought node farther, to a point where they might see themselves inside their own vision of the social order being sold to them. Intensely evil, insidious.
Very important to understand this.
If we were “all in the same boat”...who could possibly employ you, other than the government? And why would they give the slightest crap about you?