re: #68 HappyWarrior

I think that’s the thing that bugs me about Republicans/today’s conservatives. They by and large empathy and the rare times we do see empathy from them, it’s directed at the very wealthy who are upset because their taxes may go up a little or the religious right who can’t handle gays getting married. Rarely ever do they have sympathy for the laid-off parent who can’t afford health insurance for his family, the gay kid bullied in school, or anything else. They like to talk about how they’re a “Christian party” but I just see the worst religious fanaticism on social issues combined with Ayn Rand’s worldview on economics.

I think the most basic political postulate of the right is that there is an aristocracy, and non-aristocrats should naturally defer to the aristocrats because they are lesser beings. The US wing nuts define this aristocracy mainly by wealth as opposed to inheritance, although with a moribund estate tax, these categories blur.