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daredtowork

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10. What always boggles me is how

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 05:28 PM

Dec 2014

"Useless eaters" or "death panels" or even "right to life" will become Right Wing cause celebres when at the root of their ideology is social darwinism. View the man behind the curtain, and it's just the darwinian grind, down to a cold, hard nub. But it's decorated in a lot of touchy feely crap to sell it to the religious folk.

I got news for you people: the hard competition of social darwinism means you have to do something with the losers. And if you are rigging the game or playing on an uneven field, the losers are going to keep questioning why they even have to play on your terms.

The opposite of social darwinism, as you point out in your post is Civilization. It is at last acknowledging that each human being we allow into this world has worth and dignity in themselves, and imposing suffering by depriving them of basic necessities is a form of torture. We Americans don't torture do we? (Oops, Torture Report.)

Anyway, we need to make the deliberate, conscious choice to build Civilization.

Perhaps some day we will.

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Why They Get Away With Cutting Welfare [View all] Prophet 451 Dec 2014 OP

K&R.... daleanime Dec 2014 #1

Thanks, man n/t Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #4

Wow ... thank you! etherealtruth Dec 2014 #2

Thank you for considering my words Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author etherealtruth Dec 2014 #6

Good point Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #7

See? Brigid Dec 2014 #5

And you were right :) Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #8

34 recs on a very slow DU day is not shabby at all! etherealtruth Dec 2014 #28

Excellent. So much truth here. n/t pa28 Dec 2014 #9

What always boggles me is how daredtowork Dec 2014 #10

Rather than "the winners and the losers"...we should say "the lucky and the unlucky". Ken Burch Dec 2014 #12

Yet the privileged aren't the majority daredtowork Dec 2014 #13

By "and", I meant "Versus". Ken Burch Dec 2014 #16

My preferred term: "the rich versus the rest" n/t Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #21

Some day, perhaps Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #46

And the Wall Street/Clinton wing of our party will respond by saying: Ken Burch Dec 2014 #11

"it's called prison." - dang you stole my line! nt daredtowork Dec 2014 #14

KandR GeorgeGist Dec 2014 #15

Very well said! Omaha Steve Dec 2014 #17

We have idiots who rail about foreign aid saying we should care for our own people first.... Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2014 #18

Mostly we should all have guns. Enthusiast Dec 2014 #22

Yeeeup.... Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2014 #32

Bravo, kind sir! Bravo! ColesCountyDem Dec 2014 #19

Krugman: Racism: "our unique suspicion of and hostility to social insurance and anti-poverty pampango Dec 2014 #20

K&R for truth! Well said. nt Mnemosyne Dec 2014 #23

Thank you for such an excellent & comprehensive post. CaptainTruth Dec 2014 #24

I hope to be wrong on 7 too Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #40

K&R +1,000 nt LiberalElite Dec 2014 #25

K&R Fuddnik Dec 2014 #26

Because enough of us "good people" won't stop them. jtuck004 Dec 2014 #27

Righteous rant my friend.....well done. yourout Dec 2014 #29

VERY well said! logosoco Dec 2014 #30

I hope to be wrtong as well Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #39

It is my belief that those at the bottom and all the way up to the middle middle class really LiberalArkie Dec 2014 #31

K&R - Great post n/t kdmorris Dec 2014 #33

Your presentation is a bit over-the-top, but otherwise quite accurate. AdHocSolver Dec 2014 #34

They don't care about crashing the US economy Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #47

The monkey wrench in your "rinse and repeat" history lesson is climate change riderinthestorm Dec 2014 #35

That's a good point Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #38

You are correct Dirty Socialist Dec 2014 #36

Fact 10. Things will change. We will prevail. We've been through worse. grahamhgreen Dec 2014 #37

A big K&R. TexasTowelie Dec 2014 #41

Thank you very much Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #42

K&R! We have many people living, working, investing and dying for conservative (corporate) ends. raouldukelives Dec 2014 #43

Not much to argue with there.. sendero Dec 2014 #44

I would agree BUT... Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #45

This message was self-deleted by its author sendero Dec 2014 #48

I deleted my initial response. sendero Dec 2014 #49

... Faux pas Dec 2014 #50

As long as we get Rollerball and the great Jonathan E, I'm good with this. BKH70041 Dec 2014 #51

"All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again." Autumn Colors Dec 2014 #52

"That's all that can be done for now" TBF Dec 2014 #53