Anyone who believes in trickle down is not a Democrat. Nor should we abandon helping people as our primary objective. Capitalism has evolved to a point where bold steps must be taken to ensure its survival. Our survival. Disparaging those efforts now only proves to separate the wheat from the chaff. Those conservatives who stand against the people VS those who will unite to save them from a failing system.
David Brooks’ Utter Ignorance About Inequality
Occasionally David Brooks, who personifies the oxymoron “conservative thinker” better than anyone I know, displays such profound ignorance that a rejoinder is necessary lest his illogic permanently pollute public debate. Such is the case with his New York Times column last Friday, arguing that we should be focusing on the “interrelated social problems of the poor” rather than on inequality, and that the two are fundamentally distinct. Baloney.
Right now the deck is stacked against the American people. Opportunity and wealth has escaped them. Ours is a mission to restore balance between public and private interests. To protect everyone's private wealth by creating a public system to ensure that they can attain any wealth in the first place. Akin to us applying bandages to a bleeding people, your quip is "let's not be too hasty, I may not want to pay for that". Well buddy, sooner or later those poor people won't be asking. Settle for balance now while we still can, Lord only knows what will come should we suffer a french revolution against our own nobility of wealth.
I do not wish us to fail at our mission, but we cannot afford to abandon our principles. We must press on.
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