Thursday, January 14, 2016

THE SORRY STATE OF AMERICAN POLITICS

The media rightly ridicule the bigotry and ignorance of the Republican voters who are responsible for Donald Trump’s buoyancy in the polls.  But your report today on Hillary Clinton’s proposed 4% “surcharge” on millionaires reveals that Democratic voters are also infested with a mix of bigotry and ignorance that, although different in detail from that of the Republicans, is no less uncivilized and dangerous (“Hillary Clinton Proposes 4% Income-Tax Surcharge for Wealthy Americans,” Jan. 12).

While many GOP voters today mindlessly heap lots of blame on immigrants and foreigners for America’s woes, many Dem voters today mindlessly heap lots of blame on “the rich.”  While many GOP voters ignorantly suppose that transferring jobs from immigrants and foreign workers to Americans is a sure-fire way to make ordinary Americans more prosperous, many Dem voters ignorantly suppose that transferring incomes from “the rich” to ordinary Americans is a sure-fire way to make ordinary Americans more prosperous. And while many GOP voters stupidly believe that immigrants and foreigners are natural and implacable enemies of the common good — enemies who prey upon us only because Uncle Sam has been too tolerant of evil in our midst — many Dem voters stupidly believe that “the rich” are natural and implacable enemies of the common good — enemies who prey upon us only because Uncle Sam has been too tolerant of evil in our midst.

http://spectator.org/blog/65188/sorry-state-american-politics

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