From noted hate group Daily Kos:
Conservatism can only rear its ugly head or sustain itself in a top-down society where information is guarded by a few Fauxes and concealed from the general masses. The real views and real positions of right wing conservatives are fringe positions, which only a small minority of Americans (and a small minority of people in any country) believe in.Thus the conservatives have carefully tried to construct a society where the newspaper, radio station, network, and religious institution in their community are right wing propaganda outlets with the silent majority stifled through intimidation tactics or lack of an outlet. And they've been able to do that partly because their economic philosophy is beneficial to those who can afford to buy up these corporations.
But that is now changing.
You might want to read the whole thing.
Putting forth nods of agreement with the main premise. Though, "The Left" is done a discourtesy I think, in the article, in the repeated attribution of "The Bottom" to their position in society.
It is important that members of any group take openly and heartily in the writings of those on their periphery and those in opposition; not with the determined mind of grumbled refutation or infuriated open rebuttal, instead in the spirit of rational analysis.
Oh and the BULLSHIT that's on the web! Wheat/chaff...who the fuck knows?!
Not to be all commie and shit, but I think it is best that we always identify ourselves as "The Bottom". You know, that whole 'we must always better the worst of all of us, so that as a whole we can rise above'. Trite, but I grow to realize, true.
Sounds like welfare fraud to me. ;)
Seriously though, minimax IS primarily a philosophy of economics. Were "The Left" to collectively identify themselves as "The Bottom" only to tip the scales of Rawls' Difference Principle in their favor, it would be tantamount to the above I think.
Oh yeah?
i think so (don't hit me)
Okay, if it'll make you feel better, hit me. (Actually, it'll probably only make me feel better, but that just sounds selfish.)
I'm not gonna hit you...my brain hurts too much from your egghead comments is all...
'minimax'?
'Rawls' Difference Principle'?
WTF!
The references (to minimax and Rawls) resulted from my precipitous research (Google - like there was any doubt) on the origins of the sentiment "we must always better the worst of all of us, so that as a whole we can rise above" in an effort to better understand what YOU meant. I got wrapped up in the jargon of thems college edumacated scholars, and turned attention to substantiating my initial jibe "Sounds like welfare fraud to me", which standing by itself seemed a little hollow. Perhaps, if I regurgitate (honk) some names and concepts in a public forum, I silently conjecture, a bit might stick, I may remember a little somethin-somethin.
Well, okay then.
"the origins of the sentiment "we must always better the worst of all of us, so that as a whole we can rise above" in an effort to better understand what YOU meant"
Like too many of my thoughts (and not enough other stuff, if you get my drift), that sentence came directly out of my ass (as in me talking out of it).
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