6 Reasons There's No Such Thing As Compassionate Conservatism

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signalmankenneth

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http://www.alternet.org/print/economy/6-reasons-theres-no-such-thing-compassionate-conservatism

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they cant change the message because they don't control the message.


its a bought and paid for message from their owners
 
I always thought Bush's compassionate conservatism meme was a complete crock of shit. Conservatism in and of itself is the most compassionate thing on earth. It beats the cynicism of liberalism which enslaves people to poverty and gobblement dependence.
 
Let children go hungry then they will learn to be masters of commerse.

just how fucking stupid are you ILA?
 
For an expanded discussion of this topic, not the words compassionate conservatism but the more than 40 year war on the poor by the Republicans which started in the 1970s and really picked up some steam with this latest budget deal worked out by a Rand and Murray, read Frances Fox Piven & Richard A. Cloward's The New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and It's Consequences (1985). She and he do a good job of laying out the source of the problem and the history of the welfare state from the usurpation of subsistence rights to the laws requiring all able bodied people to work and making begging itself a crime punishable by death for a third offense" probably the earliest "three strikes and your out" laws. She also spends a good deal of time debunking most of the old reliable Republican platitudes associated with the destruction of the Welfare State. She also discusses the ways in which Republicans have convinced the general population that government is both too big and has no role in market relations. Both lies that she debunks. The Constitution was written to protect slave owners and their property in slaves, a word that didn't appear in the Constitution at all. But the Southern Bourbons whose property it protected got to count their slaves as 3/5th of a human being for purposes of representation and the government gave millions of acres of land away to the railroads for their co-operation in constructing the transcontinental railroad.

For a more in depth history of the early years of industrial capitalism and how they got people to work in those early factories after they had grown used to subsistence living there are two other studies that are instructive: one is The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation (2000) by Michael Perelman and the now classic work by E. P. THompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1963). Both of these books debunk the idea that there is anything natural about capitalism and the greed it spawns.
 
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