Capitalist Wealthy versus Socialist Wealthy

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The liberal left worldview claims to be the voice of the laborer.  In reality, that claim alone betrays what the democrats truly stand for. Statism has always claimed to be for the poor, down-trodden worker, and to be against the greedy wealthy that takes advantage of them, also known as the capitalistic business owner. Karl Marx called the battle between these two great hostile camps in society a war of two classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. The problem is, the policies of leftism does not free the worker from the unfair practices of the Bourgeoisie, but instead leads the Proletariat into bondage by replacing the wealthy with the powerful ruling elite of the system of central government.

In America, conservative republicans are not the primary employers as leftists may indicate. In fact, the majority of rich people, statistically, are not Republicans, but are liberal Democrats. This is an interesting reality when you consider that the socialism the Democrats push is geared toward attacking “the rich” and maligning the accumulation of private wealth.

Wealthy Americans tend to live in places like New York, San Francisco, Palm Springs, Hollywood, Chicago, and Silicon Valley. These are hardly places that boast as being bastions of conservatism. Most of the richest congressional districts are represented by Democrats. The richest people in the United States Congress tend to be liberal Democrats.

In fact, the three richest men in America, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison, are all hardcore liberals.

Reality dictates that the rich people in America are not Republicans, despite what the media, and the leftist propaganda, says. The fictional tale of the wealthy, right-wing plutocrats is repeated over and over by politicians and the media in order to convince those that are ill-informed that the lie is the truth. It is a strategy of class warfare, and it is designed to win over the uninformed to the Democrat Party for the sole purpose of getting their votes. The Bourgeoisie versus the Proletariat argument is a winner with folks that have been convinced to be angry and envious against a class of people they have been told became rich on the backs of the poor - even though that is a completely false statement.

This is not to say that there are no rich Republicans. Of course there are wealthy conservatives, as well as rich liberal Democrats. In fact, the rich tend to fall into two categories: capitalist wealthy and the socialist wealthy.

The capitalist wealthy, even when they are Republicans, are not necessarily conservatives, but they are producers. They produce products, build projects, provide services, and mine for resources. The problem is that manufacturing, which is the basis for a strong economy, is moving abroad, and so are the old-school capitalist rich. As the wealthy job producers leave under the oppression of an overbearing federal government, they are taking the jobs with them, further contributing to the reduction of the middle class.

Overseas flight of the capitalist wealthy is the result of leftist policies. The liberal left Democrats do what they can to attack what Karl Marx called the Bourgeois. The Democrat Party has been implementing policies that attack the creation of wealth, hammer private business with excessive taxes, place heavy regulation upon any attempt to make a profit, uses environmentalism to handcuff businesses, and uses the labor unions to create unrest among the employees (and launder Democrat money).

As the capitalist wealthy run for the hills, the socialist wealthy are replacing them. These are the people that have decided that it is up to them, and government, to provide what society needs “socially.” They aren't producers. They are urban elites. They are the ones that support the idea of the General Will – a common good not recognized by the people, but by only the ruling elite – and they believe it is their duty to force the General Will on the public, whether they like it, or not. As Jean Jacques Rousseau said, in reference to the General Will, “People must be forced to be free.”

The socialist wealthy are the actors, and investors, that appropriate for themselves the wealth of America through the entertainment industry, media, fashion, and arts. They are the publishers, communications moguls, information age millionaires, and politicians that build huge fortunes thanks to their political power. They don't earn their wealth like the producers. They take it, like the government. They don't create wealth. They appropriate it.

The socialist wealthy are becoming the dominant rich, and they are killing the middle class in the process, because when they become wealthy, because they are not creating wealth, they are taking it from the middle class.

Making a profit is disparaged by the liberal left, so the producers are under fire. The socialist liberals have to tear down the capitalist wealthy to gain power and position. They consider themselves different, because they didn't rise up through the “greed of profit.” The socialist liberal, ashamed of their wealth, believes they can gain redemption by creating a utopia – a government controlled society dreamed of by Karl Marx, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Barack Obama.

The problem is, big government socialism, or liberalism (if you feel better calling it that), is a failed ideology. It has collapsed every time it has been tried. It separates society into two classes, the poor citizens, and the rich ruling elite. The rich and powerful overlords use their power to push down the people, to keep them poor through their programs, while keeping themselves rich and powerful through their political position. But America was not forged through a system they embrace, but through liberty and free market economics.

Liberals are confused when anyone that is not rich votes Republican, because even they believe their propaganda that the democrats are for the poor and the republicans are for the wealthy.  Conservatives that are not wealthy live in hope of achieving a wealthy status, but because they think the wealthy are Republicans, but because that is a part of our birthright. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The pursuit of property. The pursuit of a better life. Voting conservative is not against their own self interest, but the opposite. To vote for government dependency through government welfare programs is to vote against opportunity, and to accept a life of mediocrity guided and designed by the ruling elite in government. The life conservatives seek is achieved through individual achievement without government interference, without intrusive regulatory control, and without excessive taxation.

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