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And liberalism is about feeling guilty about your success when others suffer and trying to absolve for your sins by shaping the state in a way to redistribute w
by gfodor 13y ago
And liberalism is about feeling guilty about your success when others suffer and trying to absolve for your sins by shaping the state in a way to redistribute wealth, regardless of how effective that might be in actually increasing economic mobility.
Do you see how it's kind of dumb to make wide sweeping statements about political groups based upon basic strawman arguments?
- skore 13y agoNo, actually, your depiction of liberalism is mostly accurate except for the motivation part. I don't think it's about absolving sins. I also don't think that economic mobility is the main objective. This again speaks to the unrecognized entitlement: When all you strive for is your own economic mobility, you project the same on poor folks. Most of the time, they would like to be on the scale of economic mobility to start off with, not advance on it. I pick my strawmen carefully.
- gfodor 13y agoCan you elaborate on how exactly the use of the word "increasing" is some smoking gun for unrecognized entitlement? If I'm understanding your point it seems absolutely ridiculous. Obviously "increasing economic mobility" includes conceptually providing mobility to those who currently have no mobility at all.