Libertarians
American Political Issues by Tech Resist (@TecSiGuy), 2016 Dem! - was independent – used to
lean “right”
Libertarian lies and hoaxes yield abject
poverty.
1. Here’s a libertarian hoax. Decentralization is a macroeconomic
tenant.
2. “Americans for Prosperity” = prosperity for the 1%.
3. Gops are
turning workers into serfs/slaves. They
promote: “Economic freedom” for their donor class.
Blame is the key to Gop propaganda, so
believers can feel superior. Paint a gloomy picture of “others” to detest.
How to
justify meanness?
It's not easy to be cruel to someone who is down and
out. After all, most of us feel ashamed when walking by a homeless person or
watching kids crammed into over-crowded classrooms. It requires several
psychological twists and turns to make life even harder for low-income Americans.
1.
You have to blame low-income parents
for their own economic problems. Even if the unemployment rate is
sky-high it must be the poor person’s fault.
2.
You need to feel
superior —
that somehow you got to where you are today not by an accident of birth but
rather by your own hard labors. Anyone not as successful as you, by definition,
is inferior.
3.
You have to believe that meanness really is tough love —
that by taking benefits away from the poor you are actually helping them on the
road to self-sufficiency.
4.
It’s helpful to have access to the broader
Randian/libertarian philosophy that argues all forms of collective government
action are an attack on freedom. In this view, altruism is seen as a curse that
justifies collective government programs which essentially steal money from the
makers and to waste on the takers. All collective caring by the state,
therefore, is evil, so that all support for the poor via government is evil as
well.
5.
It’s psychologically crucial to have your prejudices confirmed by charismatic alchemists like Ayn Rand, Rand
Paul and Paul Ryan who peddle selfishness as the highest form of morality (although only Ayn
Rand had the guts to say it so bluntly).
“THE THEORISTS OF THE
MOOCHER CLASS: VERONIQUE DE RUGY AND PAUL RYAN
Now
politicians like Paul Ryan who used to say things like:
Right now, about 60 percent of the American people get more
benefits in dollar value from the federal government than they pay back in
taxes. So, we're going to a majority of takers versus makers...
are
saying, instead:
No one is suggesting that what we call our earned entitlements – entitlements
you pay for, like payroll taxes for Medicare and Social Security – are putting
you in a 'taker' category. No one would suggest that whatsoever."
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/01/the-theorists-of-the-moocher-class.html
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Foundation, the Marcus Foundation,
the John William Pope Foundation,
the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation,
the Ralph Smeed
Private Memorial Foundation, the Koch Family Foundations, the Searle Freedom Trust, the E.L. Craig Foundation, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Sources:
Koch
funded propaganda whistle blow https://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/08/26/15387/koch-funded-think-tank-offers-schools-course-libertarianism
2014 IRS Form 990-PF Public Records Evidence http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/516/516017929/516017929_201312_990PF.pdf
Libertarian Promoted, 5 Equality
Myths – It skews perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtxuy-GJwCo
5 Inequality Myths – Libertarian Excuses for Unbridle Capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtxuy-GJwCo
The Poor Pay Taxes:
The “right” attacks, degrades, detests,
demonizes and demoralizes the poor. Why should they have more children? To be
more miserable? To have them starve or make them obsess with inadequate food
assistance – because wages are too low? Why are people allowed to starve in the
U.S.
Mitt Romney’s secretly recorded comment that 47 percent of Americans are “dependent on the government” and “believe they are victims” isn’t the only reason he lost the presidential campaign. But the candidate himself acknowledged after the election that the comments were “very harmful.”
He added, “What I said is not what I believe.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/21/republicans_need_to_get_over_the_makers_vs_takers_mindset_118054.html#ixzz3dtBbUIi7
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/21/republicans_need_to_get_over_the_makers_vs_takers_mindset_118054.html#ixzz3dtBbUIi7
“Takers, freeloaders, moochers etc. are ALWAYS BROKE & looking for a handout! The secret to wealth can be found in giving wisely!” https://twitter.com/iamcolettarenee/status/281181159596105728
Assistance
Stats:
“Our safety net in
America today does not cure poverty,” Rubio said. “It treats the pain of
poverty, the symptoms of poverty, but it does not cure it. The only cure for
poverty is a good-paying job.”
Billionaire
Koch brothers network lays siege to Florida to push policy initiatives as
midterms loom
