"Conservatives" are traitors.

[Cary]

171. You get it!

Thank you.

We currently have levels of concentration of wealth that exceed those of the Gilded Age. If the concentration of wealth trend continues, then what do we end up with?

Feudalism.

But how do you have feudalism in a capitalist economy? You can't. You have to enable the American consumer to consume.

I would not say that the concentration of wealth is a sinister or diabolical plot so much as it is a sinister and diabolical stupidity and I go back to the whole "conservative" philosophical underpinning. I am amazed at the extent to which these "conservatives" subscribe to Any Rand, and they're so stealthy about it. You have to peel off the layers of bullshit that they overlay the Rand cult nonsense with and then confront them directly. The never deny the Ayn Rand crap when you confront them with it, but you have to confront them directly.

I would liken this to a thought virus--a disease--more than a conspiracy. The idea that we can't help each other, and the cloaking of this idea in "American values" is just utterly odious and obnoxious. Our Founding Fathers were not of this philosophy. They were learned men of the time and Ayn Rand wasn't even born yet.