kwc57
BOHICA Obama
But it's easier to screw your fellow American in the quest for wealth. Therefore, any guilt associated with that can be easily dismissed as 'quaint'. Sure there have always been the unethical, the criminal, the dishonest. But without the encumbrance of ethics, more folks will follow that path than not. And here we are. 1% vs 99%.First, there have always been unethical, dishonest, and unprincipled people in the world. There always will be unethical, dishonest, and unprincipled people in the world. These people exist among all socioeconomic and political classes. And in my opinion, they are pretty rare. We can choose to focus on these as a red herring to distract from the topic, or we can choose to focus on the topic which takes in all Americans rather than the few unethical, dishonest, and unprincipled to be found both among the rich and among the much less rich.
There is nothing in the OP that villifies education by anybody. Another red herring.
There is nothing in the OP that characterizes the less advantaged as leeches or which group holds the high moral ground. The third and fourth red herrings of your post.
The cultural divide is essentially a disparity between how we see people as deserving of anything. You may see the very rich who cut jobs as being undeserving. I may see the guy who won't take the unattractive job that would get him off food stamps as undeserving. I might take the Biblical view of he who will not work, let him not eat. You may take the Biblical view of he who feeds the one who is hungry serves the Lord.
There are two legitimate points of view to be debated here.
You listed 'local' education. Yet 'public' education is the whipping boy of everyone willing to cede power to the market rather than the public. What a shame. If they had their way, only those with means could get an education. A permanent subclass of uneducated poor would forever languish while others can snidely comment "Get a job, bum!" Ah! Freedom to exploit! Get the state out of the police game and let the corporations rule as they are mandated to by Conservatism. gobbledygook.
Actually, 53% vs 47%.