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Mick's avatar

Writers like Friedman and French appeal to the vanity of their readers need for moral preening. It's a vanity and a moral superiority based entirely on status and not having accomplished anything. If that side of the aisle abandoned this appeal, they'd have nothing to offer.

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“You must have compassion. You must ache for the poor and disenfranchised. You must fear for the vulnerable. You must weep for the ill and infirm. You must pray for those who are without hope. You must be kind to the less fortunate.”

YOU MUST ache, YOU MUST fear, YOU MUST weep, YOU MUST pray, YOU MUST be kind...

Who wrote this, a general, a priest, a journalist or a televangelist?

First, how many people in all of recorded history have ever achieved anything like this? Second, who asked our politicians and journalists to be our moral shepherds? Third, does anyone inside the impenetrable bubble of our Imperial City ever notice that our supposed betters have unlimited love for the whole planet except for anyone who disagrees w them or disobeys any aspect of their agenda?

As the Hebrews said to Moses once they got sick of wandering in the desert: "Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?"

The story of 21st-century America thus far is the elite class' campaign to hog not only ALL the assets but also ALL the virtue. Everything else is a footnote.

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