Lefties sure have had a nasty habit of going too crazy in the past!Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 12:17 pmMy impression is that a lot of the elite/intellectuals in leftist movements get the axe afterwards. Robespierre, Nin, Trotsky, etc. Like Orwell said, "So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people that don't even know that fire is hot."WiseOne wrote: ↑Tue Jan 08, 2019 6:36 amWow, this guy really hates "the rich". I wonder how he defines that group? I expect he is very likely to be among them. So many people have nodded in agreement with such statements, until they realize that the term applies to them even though they don't own a yacht or a Bentley, and still feel like they're struggling to make ends meet.
The sad truth is that there really is no longer a middle class. You're either in the Medicaid/poverty class, or you're "rich" by someone's definition.
But if you think Krugman or even Bernie's proposals are the likes of Robespierre, etc, you're fooling yourself. They're proposing standard social democratic rates the likes of Western Europe.