The Incomplete Cynic

“The rationale for the Occupy movement is that all of this has been under successful attack by the right wing, which has an opposing principle, that democracy is about citizens only taking care of themselves, about personal and not social responsibility. According to right-wing morality, the successful are by definition the moral; the one percent are taken to be the most moral. The country and the world should be ruled by such a “moral” hierarchy. Except for national security, the Public should disappear through lack of funding. The nation and the world should be ruled for private profit alone — and by force.”

George Lakoff: Occupy Elections, With a Simple Message

That’s a hell of a leap from “personal responsibility” to individuals only taking care of themselves, and that success = morality. The sad thing is that people take this kind of rhetoric seriously.

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