Word Bandits
Senator, and certified collectivist mobster, Joe Biden thinks income redistribution is “patriotic.”
Biden says he and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama want to “take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people.”
Under the Democrats’ economic plan, people earning more than $250,000 a year would pay more in taxes while those earning less — the vast majority of American taxpayers — would receive a tax cut.
Biden told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday that, in his words, “it’s time to be patriotic … time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.” [emphasis mine]
Patriotism is another word, along with selfishness, of which the meaning has been munged by and within the context of altruist-collectivist discourse. The corrupted, yet commonly accepted definition is to possess an unyielding loyalty to a nation as a whole, without any explicit stipulations. Such a vague definition enables the media and politicians to throw the term around loosely as it fits their objective. However, the term originated as a very specific representation of those who spearheaded the American Revolution - a movement destined to form a nation void of economic or religious tyranny, exactly where our word-bandits wish to take us as quickly as we’ll allow them.
Contrary to the hijacked revision, as an advocate of freedom, justice, rights and the sovereignty of the individual, and one living in a nation which was founded upon such tenets, patriotism implies maintaining a respect and dedication to preserve the revolutionary sentiments of the men who started this republic.
By this correct definition, progressive compulsory taxation is unjust, irrational and brutally immoral.
Senator Joe, on the other hand (like all four of our presidential/vice-presidential candidates), is an altruist-collectivist who holds no objection to sacrificing one man to another, especially when he can conjure a practical justification for doing such. To any individual who maintains it, and to the extent that he adheres to it, the altruist-collectivist mindset is unequivocally destructive. For an individual to force the cancer of self-sacrifice upon others is undisguisedly evil.
Self-destruction is tragic, mandating suicide on others is monumental depravity.
Twisting the philosophical currency of an honorable term into a meaningless and deceitful buzzword is intellectual fraud. The pattern of taking a concept of virtue, gutting its essence and using the label as a cloak for nonsense is very common. In the sprint to obliterate what was the greatest country, the obliteration of language proves to be a invaluable asset.
