I'm a retired postal employee. Maybe my pension, modest as it is, is overly generous, but I earned it in good faith, trying to perform my job to the best of my ability. I'll willingly make sacrifices in my benefits if that will truly help fellow citizens avoid privation and destitution.
Why do we have to transfer hate from one group to another? Young people hate older people on Social Security, the privately employed hate civil servants, the employed hate the unemployed, and everybody hates welfare recipients. We're all little people, pawns who have to play the game set up for us by "elites" in government and business. Why do we hate the players when we should hate the game?
I’m a retired postal employee. Maybe my pension, modest as it is, is overly generous, but I earned it in good faith, trying to perform my job to the best of my ability. I’ll willingly make sacrifices in my benefits if that will truly help fellow citizens avoid privation and destitution.
Why do we have to transfer hate from one group to another? Young people hate older people on Social Security, the privately employed hate civil servants, the employed hate the unemployed, and everybody hates welfare recipients. We’re all little people, pawns who have to play the game set up for us by “elites” in government and business. Why do we hate the players when we should hate the game?
None of us should have ever been in a position to decide who should “make sacrifices” and who should “avoid privation and destitution.” It’s almost the very definition of socialism. But that’s exactly where we are right now.
Like you said, it’s the “game”. It’s the system that’s pitted us against one another, compelling even honorable veterans to argue that because their property was taken from them “at the end of a gun” (and spent), it’s ok to do the same to others who, with time, are going to be in an even weaker position to shoulder that burden than they were.
My main point is, it should never have come to this. And the point of the article is, that’s where most of the country is right now, so the system isn’t going to change without a collapse/reset.
Roosevelt and the Dems that followed him knew what they were doing. Like Obama said, they won.
And, as a sidenote, their victory on immigration promises to be even bigger - they’re going to degrade the character of the electorate even more than they already have.
G*d Save America. Hope everyone had a good Dependence Day.