Why have the forces of social democracy grown stronger?
The financial crisis of 2008-2009 was a great game-changer for the 30 percent coalition — an opportunity to attack the free enterprise system as too risky for America to allow to continue in its current form. Of course, this meant ignoring the true cause of the crisis — government policy — and focusing instead on greed and stupidity in the private sector (which was abundant, I should add). The government had to be largely ignored because, of course, the government was offered as the solution to the problem. How will a rise in statism and redistribution affect America? Redistributionists always contends that relative income is the most significant source of unhappiness — that poorer people are unhappier than richer people simply because they have less money through no fault of their own. Thus, we can get a happier, fairer society by equalizing incomes through government coercion. This contention is based on a colossal misreading of data and a whole lot of ideology. The truth is that
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