Certainly, I can. But there were no injustices comparable to the ones blacks had been subjected to, yet look how they demonstrated in the early to mid sixties. They were well-dressed, dignified and non-violent, and sought to acheive equality through the simple expedient of their humanity. And they had made great strides prior to the late sixties, thereby proving that screaming obscenities and burning things was not necessary in order to bring about change.
Now, contrast that with the behavior of leftist students on the college campuses of the time. Or at the 1968 Democratic convention. And look at what has been the nature of the dialog with regard to women’s rights, abortion, social programs, welfare, universal health care, taxes and redistribution of income. In each and every case, the left has approached the issue with hatred toward their opponents. Anyone not toeing the party line on these issues is subject to accusations of selfishness, stupidity, greediness, evil, a desire to beat or keep people down or see them dying in the streets, etc., etc., etc.
It is simply impossible in this country to oppose anything the left favors without coming in for this type of behavior from the left. And it’s going on perhaps even moreso to this very day as the OP of this thread clearly demonstrates, where you have the leader of the Senate and a member of the House of Representatives claiming that Republicans are wanting to kill women.
It is that hatred and intolerance by people of the left for anyone who disagrees with them that I was talking about and not that there weren’t injustices that needed to be addressed.
Do you know how many conservatives have a yacht or mansion? Do you know how many work at normal, everyday jobs, and struggle to pay their bills and educate their children? And do you know how large of a proportion of their income goes to fund services for people who don’t pay any income tax, which is now said to be fully half the working population? I doubt if two out of every hundred conservatives is even a millionaire, and of those who are I’d wager that most of that wealth lies in the value of their homes and/or businesses, and that less than two out of a hundred of them even has a yacht or mansion. So why then are conservatives so overwhelmingly in favor of reduced government spending and lower taxes? It’s because 98% of them aren’t wealthy, and because they are philosophically opposed to government-enforced redistribution of income. It is very difficult to make large amounts of money. If it weren’t, everyone would be wealthy. So conservatives think it is deeply unfair and unjust to take money from people who’ve fought the battles and managed to earn it, and then just give it away to somebody else just because they’ve opted for the 9-to-5 worker drone life and that doesn’t pay for their needs, which usually includes at least two cars, big-screen televisions, plenty to eat, weekends at the lake and…well, you get the picture.
There is simply no excuse for the fact that 50% of working Americans have been deemed so poor by their government that they need to have their way paid by the other 50%. And yet we still have Democrats demanding that more and more people have the cost of running the government shifted to someone else.
It is as ridiculous as it is unfair.
And this stuff about the upper 5% “skimming the cream” off the labor of the rest of us is just so much class war horsecrap, if you’ll pardon the term. The wealthy make the money they do by providing goods and services that people want badly enough to turn loose of the money to pay for. They invest their money and take the risks and strive to economize and innovate in order to stay in business. They amount they pay for labor is a balance between what those people will work for and what they can afford to pay and still stay in business and make a profit. Most businesses, if they are successful, earn a net profit before taxes of around 8 to 10%. When you consider that amounts at risk and the effort it takes to stay abreast of regulations and market forces while at the same time trying to innovate and keep up with and contend with the competition, that is not an excessive profit at all.
This stuff about the upper 5% taking advantage of the lowly worker is just another example of the kind of rhetoric I was talking about before. Why not just argue that you think govenment-enforced equality of pay for everyone is the way that societies should operate? Because that’s all it boils down to. There is no truth whatsoever to the liberal conceit that wealthy people are taking unfair advantage of the working class and seeking to keep them down. This kind of rhetoric is almost the exact same rhetoric the left used in claiming men of the past sought to take advantage of women and keep them down, when the reality was nothing of the sort.
I can assure you that conservatives in this country are angry as hell. They think that everything that has made this country great is being destroyed, both socially and economically. They look around at the state this country is in and absolutely cannot believe it. But you don’t see us taking over buildings and burning tax forms and calling our opponents evil and selfish and stupid and marching in front of IRS buildings chanting “Fuck you, BHO, how much of what’s ours are you gonna steal today?” And in my opinion the liberal propensity to act that way is a large part of the reason for the hatred that exists in politics and American society today, and worst of all, most of it is blatantly dishonest and deliberately intended to falsely inflame the passions of the masses - as the behavior of Reid and Slaughter in the OP so illustrate so well.