Saint Paul said in the Bible, "the love of money is the root of all evil;" and yet the love of money is at the very foundation of our country's social darwinist ethos The latest manifestation of social Darwinist “piety” has, been the the religio-political-economic Hoover-style deification of the rich classes is to add on globalism and advance social Darwinism one more step: that of applying it to globalist economics and positing American economic and political hegemony over other countries by means of dressing it in This is Reaganomics transferred abroad by neo-conservative jingoism, disguised as social engineering, euphemistically called “spreading Democracy”. However, in its essence, it is the same old justify the rich oppress the poor social Darwinism.
It is considered the greatest priority in American life, and in its service, ethics are allowed to be malleable, fluid and situational; constantly morphing to fit new political realities on the ground. In other words, it is OK for those who have the gold and make the rules to lie as they go along and threaten military intervention as the price of bucking those who try to implement it. The Bush supporter's parlance says, “ we don’t merely consider it one’s moral duty to strive to become rich, but one must nationally adhere to Republican ideology, have a narrow set of moral beliefs and now tow the mark internationally and follow its agenda, or else be branded ‘treasonous’.
Why is it surprising then, that not only are Americans hated around the world for being greedy, hypocritical, war mongers, but also that we are among the least generous when it comes not only to foreign aid abroad but to any consideration for the poor at home? Selfishness and exploiting someone else's labor has become the national creed and the cornerstone of patriotism. Wealth has been the sign of ‘God’s favor’ and the seal of approval since America was founded as a corporate enterprise to make money for the British homeland.
From post-Civil War sweatshop labor to today's outsourcing, cheap immigrant labor, exploitation of social division, use of foreign and domestic low paid labor, as well as the stripping of workers' rights and protections bit by bit with piecemeal legislation, leads us to the real rationale behind the current Bush administration goal to privatize all government functions including the most successful social program in the U.S., Social Security. It is just another ruse to bust down and exploit poor people and deny them the safety-net that has been the basis of Europe's civilization since the 19th Century, but which never caught on in the popular mind here.
Right wingers live and breathe to deny a living to poor people, who are considered a plague and a scourge and a bunch of 'freeloaders' (however corporate freeloaders and war mongers are honored). It is tanamount to the deification of the wealthy few who make the rules.
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