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The Price of Right |
by Alicia Morgan |
Conservatism has run America into the ground, and it always will. How can it not? It's a governing philosophy based on myth, used to concentrate power in the hands of the few to the detriment of the many- exactly the opposite of what was intended by the founding fathers. The tenets of the Conservative movement and all its variations are not based on facts or evidence, but instead upon myths perpetrated by those who wish to keep others from achieving what is rightfully theirs in a true Democracy. The myth of the ‘free market,’ the myth of Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand,’ the myth that the poor are so because they are lazy, the myth that anyone can succeed in America if only they 'pull themselves up by their bootstraps,' the myth that if everyone looks after their own self-interests, then somehow, magically, everyone will succeed, except those who are not worthy to begin with— the elderly, the sick, the indigent. The ridiculous ‘trickle-down’ theory, or supply-side economics, which George H. W. Bush rightly called ‘voodoo economics,’ the idea that what’s good for corporations is good for America and that ‘a rising tide lifts all boats,’ have all proven to be laughable (if only they weren't so sad) theories put in place by one small group of people to keep others beholden and reliant. And the fact that the chickens keep voting for Colonel Sanders makes these phenomena that much more disturbing.
The Price of Right outlines in graphic detail why Conservatism is inherently anti-democratic and how the 25 year experiment that began with Reagan has done what might be irreparable harm to the country and finally outlines what Americans can do to take back their nation.
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