tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13037584.post114694413090837871..comments2023-08-09T10:09:56.340-04:00Comments on Kartik's world: A True Neo-Conservative??????Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637710449573222655noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13037584.post-1147827720427938322006-05-16T21:02:00.000-04:002006-05-16T21:02:00.000-04:00Phillips is an intellectual master. Unfortunately...Phillips is an intellectual master. Unfortunately he's not telegenic or passionate enough to generate much of a following beyond academia. The depth of his research is beyond impressive.<BR/><BR/>I'm reading Wealth and Democracy now. In it, Phillips explains the relationship of the two better than anyone. <BR/><BR/>How, after all, can you get a people to vote AGAINST their economic self-interest???<BR/><BR/>Phillips explains how the wealthy use race, communism, gender, religion, and "class warfare" rhetoric to keep the middle class stagnant and the working poor sick. <BR/><BR/>Phillips lays out in extensive historical detail how class warfare is as American as apple pie. <BR/><BR/>Unlike what the GOP and the media will tell you though, it's not what you think.<BR/><BR/>It's actually the wealthy lead the class warfare battle. Phillips explains how they have been winning, and will continue to do so?<BR/><BR/>Need proof? Look at the last election. Or look at the newspaper? <BR/><BR/>Is the Congress looking to expand health care or tax breaks for the working poor. Just the opposite actually. <BR/><BR/>This Congress is putting in overtime to reduce or eliminate taxes on capital gains, dividend income and estates of more than $1 million.<BR/><BR/>Of course, they're doing it to help working class folks, right?<BR/><BR/>Right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com