According to a number of reports, people are unhappy. Nothing new about people being unhappy, except that they seem to think this gives them the right to take to the streets and attack other people. That makes me unhappy. Except I’m not going to take to the streets and attack other people over it.
In this country, arguments are breaking out breaking out within families over the proper role of government. As Dr. Helen puts it,
Those who believe in “social justice” are arguing with those who believe in economic opportunity. It is sort of like the fight between Ayn Rand’s characters in Atlas Shrugged. There are those who believe in taking from others and those who believe in the right to their own production. This isn’t a fight that will be resolved easily and the bad economy is emphasizing the differences between how family members feel about these issues.
There is no such thing as “social justice.” It is undefinable. The two words are simply strung together by activists who believe they can get power by riling people up.
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Jefferson addressed this issue:
“The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature… Every one, by his property, or by his satisfactory situation, is interested in the support of law and order. And such men may safely and advantageously reserve to themselves a wholesome control over their public affairs, and a degree of freedom, which, in the hands of the canaille of the cities of Europe, would be instantly perverted to the demolition and destruction of everything public and private.”
By natural aristocracy he meant land owners, even subsistence farmers. He had a distrust of industrialization because it cut people off from direct production of their means of survival and destroyed their independence. He would be horrified by our social and economic structure today.
We have 46,000,000 people getting assistance in the form of food stamps just so they can eat. Millions are unemployed, their manufacturing and service jobs permanently gone, mostly to China and India. Millions more have either lost their homes or are waiting foreclosure, or are continuing to pay mortgages on homes that aren’t worth the outstanding loan value. People are surviving by running up debt on credit cards, collecting unemployment or welfare, or scrounging for scrap metal.
I’m surprised there are only a few race riots, and not massive social unrest.
A recent commie-lib update to the dictionary is “food insecurity” rather than “hunger.” They needed a new phrase so they could get the big scary number they wanted which they would use to demand higher taxes and more gov’t bloat.
The commie-libs claim “sophistication” and “nuance” only because those are the tools Marxists use to re-define the key words of the languange. “Who are you going to believe, your lying eyes or my nuanced definitions and statistics?”
Actually, the rioters being quoted sound like they’re having fun.