Wingers, the elite are laughing at you, not with you

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http://blogs.lancasteronline.com/smartremarks/2011/01/06/theyre-laughing-at-you-not-with-you/">Smart Remarks:

So consider the society that’s shaping up here.

All of this amounts to tremendous downward pressure on wages. Wages are falling and will continue to do so; this may, in turn, trigger some job growth here - but those jobs will pay less.

At the same time, the conservative pressure to keep on cutting taxes - and spineless Democrats’ refusal to to truly take a populist stance - means that we’re going to try to make up for lost/reduced wages via tax cuts. Your wages have been frozen for three years? Well here’s a couple hundred back in taxes you don’t have to pay. Prosperity! Now go spend spend spend.

But of course, cutting taxes must inevitably mean cutting services. I see our new Republican House overlords are already exempting defense, homeland security and entitlements from cuts; so where will the cuts come from? Why, from programs that benefit those at the bottom of the economic ladder. Penalize the poor - who, in the conservative mind, deserve a bit of punishment anyway.

So this brave new insane society will be one where it’s considerably more uncomfortable to be poor; and if you happen to be one of those “overpaid” middle class workers who ultimately finds yourself slipping down the economic ladder - well, don’t you know it’s your own fault? Why weren’t you an oligarch?

I personally know conservatives who mouth all of this nonsense yet harbor a great rage at the way they have fared economically. That makes no sense at all. They are living in the world they demanded. They think they can regain prosperity merely by taking from the “undeserving” who are draining so many of our national resources. What they don’t get is that those trans-national plutocrats they so admire think they are the undeserving. The new global elite think the faithful Fox News-watching middle class American is himself too greedy, should gladly work for less if he wants to restore economic dynamism to his country.

In other words, wingers - they’re not laughing with you, they’re laughing at you. One of these days, maybe you’ll figure it out. But by then, it’ll probably be too late to do a damned thing about it.