This post is a reply to Jack Roberts’ piece Political parties are playing a dangerous game with the fiscal cliff. He article reflect the manipulation I see over media treatment of the impasse. The both side should come together and pass Obama’s plan. I have to say both Conservative and Liberal commentators are guilty.
In my study of fascism, it is not loss on me the manipulation of langue by the elite to control the masses (see C.S Lewis’s book The Abolition of Man and Orwell’s 1984 ) I see words thrown around like, Finical Cliff, compromise and cooperation or lack thereof not being using for any objective meaning but as to manipulate the masses to one ideological agenda over the other.
I see only two objective and moral outcomes: we let the current expiration of Bush’s tax cuts for all Americans and drastic but mostly necessary spending cuts or renew tax cuts for everybody regardless of wealth. By letting the plan to go into effect both rich and poor will be forced to share in the burden; no more just tax the other rich guy. If one wants government to spend more on your social entitlements, then it is fair and moral the poor and middle class share in the burden. I have became more concerned we are shifting from a representative democracy to a dictatorship of the majority where the majority votes to force and infringe on the right of the minority; this is liken to two wolves and one lamb voting what and who is for dinner. Both are more desirable that the democrats plan of raising taxes and turning 1% of our population to scapegoats and weakening our defense. Rising taxes on the rich will have very little effect on deficit spending while pushing more middle class to poverty and dependency on the state at cost of our freedoms and dignity as part being the middle class. What really being taxed is capital and investment that can be used for business and business means job creation.
