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of the "neo"Cons is to concentrate all the world's wealth (yes, I do mean the entire world) in the hands of a small cabal of American ruling elites. Everything and everyone in this Weltanschauung is defined in terms of money. By keeping the average person's wages low, they keep us focused on survival and distracted from what they are doing. And by feeding us our own incomes several times in a cycle of debt and consolidation and phony "tax cuts", they permit us to feel as though we are "good money managers", thus keeping alive the myth that we might yet pull ourselves up into a higher class. There are several memes being floated over the decades that reinforce these concepts and maintain the illusion: "deadbeat", "welfare queen", "voluntary homeless", "invasive government". The twisting of the label "Liberal" into something evil and unamerican was their greatest achievement, as the term encompasses all of the compassionate policies that enable people to genuinely raise their standard of living. And marrying the concept of Social Darwinism to Christianity was their crowning stroke.
I believe the key to getting ourselves out of this Samsaric mess is to find ways in our personal lives to undermine the kind of society this cabal is building.
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