Originally posted by: Capitalizt
ah, I knew you would pop up the moment I posted craig ole buddy
It's ok if you can't admit it. It's still true.
No, it's the view of th eignorant, who search for an explanatin for something they can't understand, the way the primitive natives made up explanations.
Humankind has always had many who are resistant to growth of civilization - thinking things are ust fine as they are - and a few who can lead the human race to growth.
For a whimsical anecdote, when the Golden Gate Bridge was proposed, a group of San Franciscans opposed it as an eyesore ruining the view.
For a more relevant anecdote, when a few guys with ideas proposed creating a new nation from the English colonies in America, as many opposed the notion as agreed with it (and as many yet again had no real opinion), and many of those who supported it were motivated mostly by the basic economic issues of England's taxation as opposed to the notion of this 'democracy'. But people came around.
You know which group you are in. You fear the progressives, and are blind to the problems of ocncentrated wealth. You resist any change that would further evolve society, and prefer to stay with the 'tried and true' simple maxims which inevitably lead to oligarchy, and that's just fine with you. You make up fears about any 'liberal' changes, and minimize the problems of the oligarchy.
And without any understanding of the issues of the concentration of wealth, you look at the people suggesting it the way Republicans (and some democrats) have look at leftist governments in the Americas - unable to see them for what they are, they paint them in the familiar smears of 'commies' and 'evil' and Must Smit Them for the cause of good. We sold missiles to Iran illegally to get cash for our terrorist army in Nicaragua to fight a guy who cared for the poor, and ended up in power today - whaddya know, harmlessly.
But had you asked them, they'd have said with the same conviction you have about envy, how evil the leftists were, and how all the measures were justified.
You and they are deluded, of course. You couldn't make up Ronal Reagan calling the hodge-podge of former death squads and terrorists "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers", but that's what he said. And neither of you are going to be able to understan the error of your ideology.
But your simple statement, is wrong. It's not correct that it's about envy. You simply put your ignorance on display when you say it.
And like the humantarian I am, when I see a horse wanting for water, I post the location of some water. You, being more the donkey than a horse, stubbornly bray and refuse.
What, exactly, other than your opinion, can you offer in the way of proof of your claim that the basis is envy - and if that's all you have, why are you so quick to say they don't know their own opinion? I'd say the reason is that you are envious of the liberals' politics, and you can't prove that wrong, now can you? Now, you can repeat your ignorance, as if saying it again will make it any less wrong.