President
Obama won re-election on the premise that he is defending the middle
class. But that very assertion assumes, firstly, that the middle class
needs "defending" and, secondly, that it is the function of government
to defend it. Both assumptions are wrong.
Basic to Obama's thinking is the idea that the American middle class is endangered, and endangered not by government, but by capitalism. That belief has profound implications for all of society. It suggests, for example, that one's individual efforts are futile. As the left sees, if an individual does succeed, it is on the backs of others who then are classed as victims. By definition, an individual's effort to rise above the crowd is immoral because it creates "income inequality." The proper course is to accept one's place as an anonymous worker within the gray collective ruled by a distant and all-powerful bureaucracy.
Basic to Obama's thinking is the idea that the American middle class is endangered, and endangered not by government, but by capitalism. That belief has profound implications for all of society. It suggests, for example, that one's individual efforts are futile. As the left sees, if an individual does succeed, it is on the backs of others who then are classed as victims. By definition, an individual's effort to rise above the crowd is immoral because it creates "income inequality." The proper course is to accept one's place as an anonymous worker within the gray collective ruled by a distant and all-powerful bureaucracy.
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