Bigotry is endemic and hate for all kinds of reasons lives in the human hearts of those who ignore God and His laws. Cain killed Able because he was jealous of his brother. Able was no less dead because he died from the sin of envy rather than the sin of racism.
When you look at the violence fomented by the Democrats it seems to me that it is just as much about envy as color. In Beverly Hills, rioters, many of them white, screamed, "Eat the rich." In Rochester, same deal, they told restaurants diners they were putting an end to the party. "If you don't give us our sh**, we'll shut this down!"
Obama's supporters are mad, really mad. After all, they thought he was only going to sock it to the "rich" but the lightbulb went on with their latest paychecks.
The reality is there aren't enough rich folks. Even if you taxed them at 100% and took everything, you would hardly make a dent in the deficit. Most people (at least people paying income taxes) are in the middle class. When liberals look at the vast pool of potential payers, their eyes shine with dollar signs. As for the rich, they will be looking for ways to escape and politicians will continue to offer them plenty of loopholes because they contribute big bucks to politicians. The fiscal cliff and Hurricane Sandy bills were filled with pork for politician pals.
Wake up, silly liberals. Politicians use class envy to fool you and then they punch you in the gut. And when hyper inflation hits, you may very well be living below the poverty level. So welcome to reality. This is just the beginning! Stock up on rice, beans, oatmeal before the real crunch. Oh...and buy seeds for the garden. You'll need them.
Robert Knight had a great article in the Washington Times on the media bias comparing Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party Movement. Let's face it, the folks camping out in our cities, trashing the parks, urinating and defecating in neighbors' yards, attacking police, having sex in plain view, peppering their signs and speech with f this and f that, chanting for bestiality, etc. have little in common with the Tea Parties.
I've attended tea party rallies filled with law-abiding folks waving flags and dressing in patriotic costumes who recognize that the problem is too much government. They bear little resemblance to the crowds in the parks being incited by socialists, communists, and community organizing groups demanding more government and expressing their hatred for the rich and successful. (How come nobody ever objects to Oprah and her empire? Or George Soros? Or Michael Moore? Or Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, and Al Gore? How come their greed is okay? Some of them came by their wealth in much more suspect fashion than CEOs on Wall Street.)
The first video below is from an Italian protest, a spinoff of the Occupy Wall Street movement in this country. Like the crowds in the U.S., the Italian group was heavily made up of Communists, Socialists, and other anti-capitalists who hate "the rich" and want to see the current system overthrown. The second video is from Occupy Oakland which illustrates the socialist ideas of the participants. This is all about class warfare and class envy. I suspect the Oakland group has a lot of church haters in it too.
What I find particularly ironic about these folks as they call for higher taxes is that they are talking about themselves. If the government took all the money from the rich, it wouldn't begin to pay the bills -- there just aren't enough rich people. The government has to tax the middle class workers because that's where most of the money is.
Under Communism in Russia, the government owned everything and the people were slaves of the system. We're already wage slaves because of onerous taxes. Now these foolish people want to put us completely under the thumb of Big Brother. And they will all no doubt vote for Obama, a rich man who is supported by rich Hollywood liberals and folks like George Soros and Oprah Winfrey. Is their money somehow cleaner than the bank executives? And how about Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's boss, who makes over 400K. Is she a good guy, but the bank exec is evil?
This is what you get when the schools are dumbed down and the kids are fed a constant stream of socialist propaganda. I'm all in favor of redistributing wealth. It's called...get a job, work hard, start your own business, etc. I hope more folks home school and raise their kids to be freedom fighters, although that takes time and I'm not sure we have much left.
But, as a priest said to me once, "What do you think it was like for the average man during the collapse of Rome?" Probably nothing much changed...until the barbarians sacked the city. Hmmm...now that I think about it, that's what these Occupy movements seem to be about.
