My friend Roger made a comment recently on our email list:
For your “lazy poorâ€, this may be the only way for them to better themselves. Thank you for making my longstanding point about conservatives obvious: they need someone to demonize and someone to keep down, so they can feel better about themselves. This is well stated in the Reagan Creed: if everybody was somebody, there wouldn’t be anybody to be nobody.
If you are somebody, you should be thankful for the opportunities and advantages you’ve had. My question to conservatives: why can’t everybody be somebody in your world?
My response was as follows:
More like the lazy poor that have been made lazy by the “great society” – a Democratic ideal that started the welfare state. You got it wrong:
You say: “this may be the only way for them to better themselves.” That is oppression – in its worst passive form.Republicans that truly care don’t want to keep the poor down; they want them to have the ability to pull themselves up. The same negative argument can be made for most Democrats – they don’t want to share the opportunities with the poor, they just want to keep them alive and ‘right where they are.’ No different then the original Southern Democrats (many of those have switched to the Republican party and poisoned it) that gave thier slaves a little plot of land to call thier own, and also gave them “thier own” toilets, schools and hospitals. “I love you – here I’m giving this to you” – “but you aren’t like me so please dont’ think you can share in my prosperity.”
Those days are over – keep it real and never think a poor man is less capable. He may need help but
- give a man a fish he will eat for a day, teach him how to fish he will eat for a lifetime.
Full discussion on my forum
