A Moment of Clarity
By Theresa Camoriano
It is hard to understand how intelligent people could pursue policies that we know will be very harmful to the country and will cause great human suffering, such as the recent health care bill, but now, thanks to Dennis Prager, I am beginning to understand. Prager has explained that people on the left have a completely different set of priorities from people on the right. For people on the left, the highest priority is equality.
That is why it does not bother them that their policies will reduce our standard of living, hasten the country toward bankruptcy, and reduce our freedom. None of those aspects of their policies are of great concern to them, because equality trumps everything else. (Of course, the elites on the left exempt themselves from their own policies that are designed to produce equality, since they understand themselves to be above the common man.)
People on the right have a completely different set of goals. We want a tolerant, dynamic country in which people are free to pursue their own dreams and make the most of their lives as long as they are not harming someone else. We want a country in which people live vibrant, meaningful, prosperous lives and in which the standard of living is continually improving – where there are constant innovations and improvements in health care, transportation, communication, and all the other areas of our lives. We want everyone to be better off, and it doesn’t bother us at all that some people, who work hard and are very productive and creative, earn more money than others and that some people become extremely wealthy. We thank God for the rich people, because we understand that they are the engine that makes the pie bigger and makes us all better off.
Since the left and right have completely different sets of priorities, it is not surprising that we pursue completely different policies that lead to completely different outcomes. The policies of the left lead to a stagnant, lackluster society in which the heavy hand of government regulates most of people’s lives in order to ensure equality. People are heavily taxed in order for the government to provide everything they need, so they have little incentive to be very productive. Since most of the important functions of humans are taken care of by the government, people focus on things like where they will spend their vacation and trying to outlaw plastic bags. The policies of the right lead to a dynamic, innovative, tolerant, free, and prosperous society in which there may be huge disparities of income and in which people have a sense of purpose because they know they can make a real difference in the lives of their families and communities.
Now that the health care bill has passed, the Democrats finally are telling the truth and explaining that the purpose of the “health care” bill really was to pursue their goal of equality. As Max Baucus said,
“This is also an income shift. It’s a shift, it’s a leveling, to help lower income, middle income Americans. Too often, too…much of late, in the last couple, three years, the mal-distribution of income in America has gone up way too much. The wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy. And the middle income class is left behind. Wages have not kept up with the increased income of the highest income Americans. This legislation will have an effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America.”
Yes, their policies will “redistribute” income, taking it from the people who earned it and giving it to others who did not. In the process, they will reduce the quality of health care, reduce the incentives for innovation, reduce our standard of living, remove much of our freedom and much of the meaning from our lives, and cause tremendous human suffering, but it is a great victory if your goal is “equality”.
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