This is where you are the victim of an ideology that it's hard to get through. You don't understand a thing, and I don't mean that nastily, about the issues of wealth and tyranny.
But that's common for people who grew up in better times; people used to overly trust the government, too, in other times.
A tea partier can in one breath say the government is a totally useless, evil, corrupt enemy of humanity that should be destroyed, and in the next when talk about the government asking for volunteers for a war get a tear in their eye saying if the President asks their help it is their patriotic duty to serve, no questions asked, don't you dare say a bad word about the President. Cognitive dissonance is strong in this one.
You view the rich class as some group of nice people who the people of the US depend on for national prosperity, who are hounded by ungrateful liberals who want to kill the geese who laid the golden eggs, they should have their own baseball cards celebrating the incredible gifts they have given our society, they should get handicapped parking placards and statues (funded by private donation, of course) in their honor. They pose no threat to the American people, quite the opposite.
Trying to argue against that is very much like trying to argue against an ideological communist for whom how you comb your hair is a class battle, for whom there is nothing but evil in every private sector economic activity, who use the same language for a hot dog stand as for Enron.
You need to be afraid, very afraid, of our of control private wealth corrupting our democracy. But I can't get through I suspect. Many Soviet citizens yearn for the days of Stalin. I can't convince them otherwise, either, generally. The government is one thing in the hands serving the public interest, and quite another in your 'police state' version. You can't simply discuss 'the government'; it depends which type it is. But you only recognize the 'evil' type, which drives your politics and makes you an unwitting servant of evil.
Admittedly, the government can be a horrible tyrant, we need look no further than Stalin or Mao or Kim. Good government is a hard art and rare, really. This is why it's horrible to see when countries are making progress - countries like Chile under Allende, when democracy is blooming -to have something like corrupt US corporations come in and stomp on it, killing the leader and many supporters of democracy and patriots, to put the nation under tyranny so a few can make a few more bucks.
That was an act by our government, requested by a coalition of US corporations who preferred exploitive profits to fair ones.
The worst governments are when the wealthy control them for their interests against the public - like the old European monarchies, where wealth an power were the same, unlike here where there is a small separation; I don't know of any of our many billionares who 'are the government', they merely fund its corruption for 'their people' to hold power.
If you look at any history of the classes, and notice the history of businesses paying people just enough not to starve and discarding them if injured, employed slave labor, employed child labor, had unsafe conditions, killed labor organizers, you see that business is largely amoral, simply always pursuing more profit; it needs a counter - and that's democracy and the government - to advocate the people's interests over simply profit. To remember who's in charge - the people, not their creation, corporations.
There will never be enough austerity to satisfy business until we're like China - if then.
Your ideology doesn't understand the need for balance, the role of democracy.
One more fallacy - you talk about the positives of the wealthy as if you're defending them against jail by liberals. You can't tell the difference between 'imprison the rich' and 'make them pay for every $1000 of income over $250,000, $30 more tax', which is repealing the Bush tax cuts would do. That can be nothing but 'punishing them' to your ideology. So you can't discuss the issue without treating like it's attacking them, failing to appreciate Democrats favor their getting large reward, just not as unlimited as you.
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