The progressive promise includes a compulsion to pillory those who are better off. From corporate fat cats to your boss, small business owner to CEO’s, all the way down to the everyone gets a trophy crowd, someone is doing better than you are and that’s not fair. (Note that highly paid public employees, union bosses, university professors, those who got rich in the media or entertainment industry, millionaire left-wing politicians, wealthy persons running let-wing non profits, and all of their money speculating billionaire banker benefactors are not on the block.)
These evil capitalists (excluding those who have hypocritically embraced their waiver) have somehow managed to improve their circumstances at your expense. They could not have possibly managed to accumulate so much without mistreating others. This is bad, so sayeth the progressive prophets, and they’ll do whatever they can to “correct it.”
So what is the solution to the so-called problem of someone improving their circumstances at the expense of others?
Use the force of government to…improve someone’s circumstances at the expense of others, minus a “small” finder’s fee, of course.
The clever among you will grasp the irony.
