Every time I get called a commie, or a socialist, for believing that the rich should be taxed far more than the poor, or the middle-class, I kinda grin and smile to myself; Knowing that I got under that persons skin, and they aren't witty enough to do anything but to echo the typical conserva-fascist response of "Yah, well YOUR A COMMIE!" and "OMG TAX THE RICH? GTFO SOCIALIST!". Despite being in broad terms, a Southern Democrat, and in tighter terms a "I-don't-give-a-f&$@-ist", I like to think how all these idiots on the right whine and moan and b!tch about how people who make in excess of 5 million. dollars. a. year. need lesser taxes, and how the super rich who make more than thirty times the previous amount, in a year, get taxed enough already. Then I kinda just hang my head, and shake it a little, and a darker part of me kinda wishes for a totalitarian dictatorship to arise in our nation, to commit genocide against the minorities, and to kill at-will, the rich people, and intellectuals, and the liberty-minded folk, and put our nation in a war that we could never hope to win, then for our nation to be war ravaged, and the blame put on us, and our economy, infrastructure, livelihoods, and society utterly destroyed. Because there is a truth that people deny, or don't want to admit to... the only way to change our nation, and for the better, is to suffer the same fate as Nazi Germany, Occupied France, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan, War-torn Balkins, and Soviet Russia. It takes the utter destruction of a nation, and the pain and suffering of its people, before REAL change can take effect, and start a new growth cycle. Our country is comparable to that of Imperial Roma. Fat, greedy, and arrogant. Controlling nations, and economies. While its elite class grow richer, and the poor grows poor-er, and the middle class bears the heavy burden of paying for the empire, while starving at home. It took two thousand years of humiliation, destruction, wars, tyrants, unity, division, being conquered, rising, and falling, before the Italy of today could take its place, and even then, it has a long way to go before it can stand equal with the other meager nations who seek and uphold the values of all men, poor, and rich, and their protection and well-being above all else, even above greed.
I just hope it's a quicker route for us, and within my life-time. Oh well, I can always patiently await the star-trek universe to slowly take shape in our time-line.
Now to grab some popcorn and watch the heads pop of conservatives, and the democrats.
