The “politics of selfishness” absolves its adherents of societal commitments made through just taxation, recognizing regulatory realities, and far more philosophically important - citizenship responsibility. The worshipers of the "politics of selfishness” are a large and wide alliance of so called “liberty” libertarian leaning Republicans, anti-any-tax tea partiers, corporate GOP profits before people operatives, and the audiences and purveyors of the talk radio and faux news entertainment industry. On and on the “politics of selfishness” goes, destroying what we hold in common care and concern as society. The idea of a good well funded public education available for all should be replaced by individuals buying the educations they can afford.
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Banking and finance practices are best left to wonders of the free market where individuals will win or lose according to their own wits.The safety of food and medicine is best determined by individual consumers doing their own research not some regulator or government researcher.corporate too) power regardless of any suggested common level playing field good. Clean elections funding violates individual (i.e.The responsibility for environment degradation lies with individual litterers and consumers not packagers and manufacturers.Elderly individuals had a lifetime to save for retirement Social Security and Medicare actually encourage an abdication of responsibility.Individuals languish in poverty because they are completely responsible for their own position in life governments bear no responsibility to provide any services.The proceeding convoluted inane formula forms the core of much of the mindset currently expressed in the right wing’s “politics of selfishness.” ‘It was her problem, not mine’ is the implication. Sound laws to reduce gun violence that society could enact are unnecessary because the victim had a less government intrusiveness recourse available and did not take personal responsibility for her own defense. He and therefore society is not responsible. Stating that a woman victim died in a horrible murder because she did not have a gun, Harmon pushes the blame for what occurred onto the victim. There is a straightforward unstated motivation - responsibility avoidance. Pushing Harmon’s wild-west, everybody-packing, shoot-em-up, and dangerous gun fantasy aside for the time being, one must wonder what prompts such a blatant and boorish blame the victim stance. But she was defenseless against an violent man's rage, and so she died.” “…if Kasandra Perkins had a gun, that is what could have helped her be alive today. Harmon titled, “If more murder victims had guns, maybe they wouldn't be killed,” he engages in an outrageous blame the victim screed: In another crass classic column in the Kennebec Journal by M.D.
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