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How a liberal doesn't think brought to you by Dr. Benjamin S. Carson (retired doctor, professional tea bagger clown)
In order for elitism to flourish, there has to be another class of people who are willing to acknowledge the superiority of the chosen ones. Elites cultivate this obeisance by providing goodies to the less fortunate ones. In our society today, those goodies consist of multiple kinds of entitlement programs. As the dependency on these programs grows, the position of the elite class is solidified because they will always be seen as the providers who need to be protected from any threats of power redistribution. The elitists constantly find ways to proclaim their goodness and their necessity for the well-being of the oppressed, while at the same time declaring how evil their opponents are, and how those evil people would utterly destroy any hope of a reasonable life for the oppressed if they were to gain power.
To quickly sum up that brain fart. Liberal social programs exist so a few elites (whoever they are?) can satisfy the needs of the inferiors like pets or slaves. Social programs create class distinction where the people that need social programs will naturally be inferior to people that don't. Of course you're wondering who doesn't need social programs? Pretty much everyone benefits from government spending. Certainly the medical industry does. Perhaps the doctor should gander at the NIH or the Medicare budget one of these days. More directly to the point; most people recognize that rich, poor, racial classes ect... preexisted before social programs. Why would any rational person think social programs created them? The answer is obvious; He already thinks people receiving money from government program are inferior and that people with wealth got that wealth by some mythic superiority. It is basic poor shaming at its finest. You have to think this way to assume his statement is true. If you think all people are more or less created equal then you know social programs become a mechanism to help (and by no means is it close to enough these days) try to create an equal playing field. Where do horrible elitist liberals get an idea that a free society should do this?
What liberals believe;
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
Tea bagger talking head comments would be out of place in the late 18th century in America, they certainly should be laughed at in the 21st century as massively stupid.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Elitism is not a liberal disease, it can occur at any point on the political spectrum. While it's possible that some who consider themselves an 'elite' on the left get their jollies by feeling that they are being 'good to the little people', plenty of folks on the right who consider themselves elite get their jollies from 'putting in the boot' and grinding down the people they consider below them.
Government exists to take care of the things society needs done that will not get done if the only motivating factor is personal greed. Things that do not generate profit directly for any given corporation or individual, but enable all other endeavours, whether private or public by providing infrastructure. And, yes, to 'provide for the general welfare', ie, to keep people from starving in the streets, or dying needlessly.