The Language Of Socialism

Envy is the language of Socialism.

The Democrat's mid-term strategy is the same as always; pandering to wealth envy, and buying off the middle class. The Obama administration is keen to hike taxes on the wealthiest 2% of Americans, invoking the perennial "Soak the Rich!" mentality the left has stuck to since FDR.

Of course the rich did get richer under President George W. Bush, but not coincidentally they also paid an ever increasing share of the federal tax burden. The 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts got the economy moving again after 9/11 and by 2007 the top 20% of earners were wealthier than ever... as a result they were paying a staggering 86 percent of all the income tax collected.

If that seems like a giant contradiction to you, you need to read up on the Laffer Curve.

But class warfare is what Democrats are best at; I mean, when they're not dodging taxes on their 76 foot yachts, or busy planning their daughter's $5 million wedding. They don't have the best ideas, or the most competent candidates, so an appeal to man's baser nature is their best bet. They run again and again on the premise that they will use their legislative powers to allow the poor and middle class average "JOE" to openly victimize the wealthy minority. But in doing so, the person they hurt the most is "HENRY".

High earner, not rich yet.

There is an unspoken assumption among those who back the class warriors that if someone inhabits the Upper Class that they have always done so. There is no allowance in their envy for the Nouveau Riche, or the small business man who after years of scraping by just managed to string together two good years. To people like that the poor are poor because the rich made them that way. They simply cannot fathom of a person building wealth upon their own merits. They cannot accept that any one person could be more capable or prudent than another. They cannot accept that they themselves aren't wealthy because they didn't work hard or long or smart enough. They cannot accept that decisions matter, and that maybe they've made a few bad ones along the way.

Their envy is an insult to themselves. If they're poor, they'll remain that way, because they don't trust in their own ability to achieve enough to really try. That's just what the anti-capitalist, anti wealth Obama agenda is counting on.