I agree that instilling orals back into culture is the main issue, but how, exactly, can we do that when immoral people run everything? This bleeds over into all walks of life, too, and it's the exact reason that those who live on the government dole instead of working for a living not only see no problem with voting for those who want to raise taxes on the working class, but they honestly hold so much hatred and vitriol for anyone who has something they don't that they want to steal everything from those who work for themselves.
Tax laws are made to protect the uber rich and the uber poor while screwing everyone in the middle (aka, the working class). And, really, that's what this whole nightmare is about, when you boil it down: the uber rich hate seeing anyone but themselves able to afford houses and cars and a comfortable life. They want to destroy it and get the support of the "gimme" class by fanning the flames of their hatred of the middle and upper middle class working families. The irony of it is that the "gimme" class is too stupid to realize their dear government will never give them what they want--nope, they'll just destroy the middle class so everyone else will be slaves. Or dead. While the elites continue to keep what they've got because no one ever fixes the real problem.
So yeah, while I get what you're saying about how reserving voting rights for those who own land would make a smaller elite class, it's giving the ability to vote to everyone, no matter their stake in the game (or lack thereof) that has gotten us into this mess to begin with. When elected officials have the right to steal from people however they wish, you can't give the right to vote to those who only benefit from higher taxes and don't suffer the consequences of said high taxes, be it through tax shelters or "earned income credits" (which are utterly ridiculous).
When you give people the right to vote for stealing the wealth of others, you end up with what we have now, which is too many people wanting to ride on the backs of those few who do the work. And once it reaches a certain point, the only choice is to have Atlas shrug.
Maybe people should pass a test before they get to vote.
But more to the point, it’s the voting system that needs to be fixed. Which we are seeing some movement in that arena so there’s progress. Most of the useful idiots are to lazy to go vote anyways. If it weren’t for the cheating, they wouldn’t have won.
No simple solution. Smarter minds than mine will be needed.
I agree that instilling orals back into culture is the main issue, but how, exactly, can we do that when immoral people run everything? This bleeds over into all walks of life, too, and it's the exact reason that those who live on the government dole instead of working for a living not only see no problem with voting for those who want to raise taxes on the working class, but they honestly hold so much hatred and vitriol for anyone who has something they don't that they want to steal everything from those who work for themselves.
Tax laws are made to protect the uber rich and the uber poor while screwing everyone in the middle (aka, the working class). And, really, that's what this whole nightmare is about, when you boil it down: the uber rich hate seeing anyone but themselves able to afford houses and cars and a comfortable life. They want to destroy it and get the support of the "gimme" class by fanning the flames of their hatred of the middle and upper middle class working families. The irony of it is that the "gimme" class is too stupid to realize their dear government will never give them what they want--nope, they'll just destroy the middle class so everyone else will be slaves. Or dead. While the elites continue to keep what they've got because no one ever fixes the real problem.
So yeah, while I get what you're saying about how reserving voting rights for those who own land would make a smaller elite class, it's giving the ability to vote to everyone, no matter their stake in the game (or lack thereof) that has gotten us into this mess to begin with. When elected officials have the right to steal from people however they wish, you can't give the right to vote to those who only benefit from higher taxes and don't suffer the consequences of said high taxes, be it through tax shelters or "earned income credits" (which are utterly ridiculous).
When you give people the right to vote for stealing the wealth of others, you end up with what we have now, which is too many people wanting to ride on the backs of those few who do the work. And once it reaches a certain point, the only choice is to have Atlas shrug.
Maybe people should pass a test before they get to vote.
But more to the point, it’s the voting system that needs to be fixed. Which we are seeing some movement in that arena so there’s progress. Most of the useful idiots are to lazy to go vote anyways. If it weren’t for the cheating, they wouldn’t have won.
No simple solution. Smarter minds than mine will be needed.