Three Big Myths Right-Wing Propagandists Are Spreading to Frame the 2012 Election - Hightower
During the past several years, a mess of plutocratic myths has been growing like kudzu across our political landscape. This aggressive ideological vine has crept from place to place, incrementally covering over the vital spirit of egalitarianism that defines us as Americans and unites us as a society. Deliberately planted and nurtured by various Koch-funded front groups, these invasive myths (let's dare call them lies) have been spread by assorted Ayn-Randian acolytes, advancing the anti-democratic notion that corporations and the wealthy are America's most able, virtuous, and deserving citizens.
Now, with the presidency and total control of Congress up for grabs in this election year, the Koch-Randians are going all out to entangle the national policy debate in their lies, the essence of which comes down to this overriding whopper: Government is an immoral, blundering menace that must be shoved aside so a virtuous society run by gifted, self-reliant "strivers" and efficient corporations can flourish. If you swallow that bucket of Kool-Aid, you might then be able to accept all sorts of the right-wing's current phantasmagoric policy proposals:
Medicare must be replaced with a privatized "VoucherCare" (or, more accurately, "WeDon'tCare"
medical system;
All poverty programs must be slashed or eliminated to "free"poor people from a crippling and shameful dependency on public aid;
The government framework that sustains a middle class (from student loans to Social Security) must be turned over to Wall Street so individuals are free to "manage" their own fates through marketplace choice;
Such worker protections as collective bargaining, minimum wage, and unemployment payments must be stripped away to remove artificial impediments to the "natural rationality" of free market forces;
The corporate and moneyed elites (forgive a bit of redundancy there) must be freed from tax and regulatory burdens that impede their entrepreneurial creativity;
The First Amendment must be interpreted to mean that unlimited political spending of corporate cash equals free speech; and
Etcetera, ad nauseam, ad infinitum.
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He is an unashamed FDR/LBJ Social Democrat who believes that
"Centrists" and compromising with fanatics will be the death of the Working Class.
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