The RW meme says, "let business self regulate and all will be fine". How can they be so blind

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to history? Can anyone logically tell me how anyone, who is sane, could believe that letting big business run free would help reduce income disparity or create strong middle class jobs in America? Yet this is their hard held belief. It is a stretch to even give big business a pass for their irresponsibility.

How can it be possible for seemingly intelligent people to spout these mantras as fact? Yet they get away with it.

Please convince me that they have a leg to stand on. I don't see it.

[librechik]

1. don't let them kid you. They know exactly what they are doing

Lying is their way of life.

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2. So it's a conscience lie and they are do not believe it themselves?

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4. Bubbles

The wealthy live in their own bubbles, and a great many of them come to believe their own lies. At the very least, they need to think of themselves as somehow virtuous. The psychopath rarely thinks himself insane....

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6. How do we break through? it is a national illness.

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3. NPR had a guy on from the American Enterprise Institute, defending this as the "moral"

position. It was quite puke-worthy!

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5. Isn't it delusional? I can't see how actual proof can be dismissed and not smacked down.

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7. The American Enterprise Institute is: Have a look. Bush incarnate.

Some AEI scholars are considered to be some of the leading architects of the second Bush administration's public policy.[7] More than twenty AEI scholars and fellows served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions. Among the prominent former government officials now affiliated with AEI are former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, now an AEI senior fellow; former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities Lynne Cheney, a longtime AEI senior fellow; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, now an AEI senior fellow; former Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an AEI visiting fellow; and former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, now an AEI visiting scholar. Other prominent individuals affiliated with AEI include Kevin Hassett, Frederick W. Kagan, Leon Kass, Charles Murray, Michael Novak, Norman J. Ornstein, Richard Perle, Radek Sikorski, Christina Hoff Sommers, and Peter J. Wallison.[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute

It is a think tank devised, IMO, to elevate the rich and decimate the middle class. The rich can reign easier in 3rd World countries. Who really wants to do this to our Democracy?

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8. There was a time when business self regulated

... in the time of the Robber Barons.

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12. Exactly! Every time business is unregulated they oppress and abuse. This has never changed.

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9. Typical reactionary thinkers.

Common sense says that not everyone is honest. That is the reason to have rules.

It really is that simple.

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10. they aren't blind. they are inveterate liars.

and have been for many years.

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11. Then there is no patriotism in their actions and no real knowledge of why US was established.

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13. no real reason they should be. We are talking about a fairly international movement

that the Republicans in Washington DC belong to. And according to them, they follow a different leader. And he's not on earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_%28Christian_organization%29

Look especially at "role in international conflicts" topic

In short, they are anointed by God Himself to tell any lie, commit any crime, do any atrocity as individuals and a group in the name of the War for Christ's Kingdom

Since the 80s or so they are hand in hand with another set of conscience-free liars

http://www.rense.com/general68/lies.htm

apparently so both can profit off Armageddon.

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14. Wow. Thanks, this explains some of why it's so insidious.