Let's make this simple for a change:
If someone is personally/socially responsible (shouldn't have to go into detail explaining what factors are involved here), and has the mental/physical capacity and drive to get ahead in life, rich or poor they should have first dibs on the resources needed to do so.
Of course, there will always be special circumstances here and there; an accident, bad genetics, even some bad luck, etc., but no on in their right mind can deny that our current system is being abused to no end. Our lack of immigration control, slap-dash educational standards, disposable culture and weakening moral fabric are a few standout causes. To say the rabbit hole goes deep is an understatement. Throw in some politics to only further dilute and divide society with no end in sight.
It's doubtful that there is an advanced nation more divided than the United States. Technically not even North and South Korea can match us. With all our resources, information capacity and abilities we should be doing much better than we are. The fact that it too often takes a tragedy before we come together is pretty depressing.
We're focusing on the wrong goals. The love of money has dug too deep in our society's backbone, infecting the spine and slowly corrupting every nerve ending it touches. Our standards keep sliding in the name of profit, intangible values are now scoffed at, and we're at the point where even "experts" can't say whether or not we're too broke to fix.
It's time to realign our priorities, if that's even possible without an extinction level event or close to it. WW3 or a modern civil war might sadly be our only way of rectifying all the wrongs we've accumulated over that last...hell, how far back should we go...
*sigh* enough of the obvious, how about a little history lesson-
Why do left and right mean liberal and conservative?
During the election season the words left and right denote political affiliation more than spatial direction. But where do these associations come from?
The left hand has long been associated with deviance. The word “sinister” originally meant “to the left” in Latin. The word “left” comes from the Old English word lyft, which literally meant “weak, foolish.” To avoid the negative and superstitious associations of the left side, many languages used euphemisms for it. In Old English the left side was called winestra, which meant “friendlier.” In Greek it was called aristeros or “the better one.”
When did the political affiliation of these two common words arise? In fact, the association is not American at all. It originated during the French Revolution. In the 1790s, King Louis XVI was fighting with the Legislative Assembly. Like our modern-day House of Representatives, seating in the French Legislative Assembly was arranged based on political affiliation. The King sat in front of the assembly. To his right sat the conservative Feuillants who backed the king and believed in a constitutional monarchy. To his left sat the liberal Girondists and radical Jacobins who wanted to install a completely democratic government. Oddly enough, in the U.S. House of Representatives the tables have turned: members of the Republican party sit to the left of the House Speaker and members of the Democratic party sit to his or her right.
It wasn’t until the early 20th century that Left and Right denoted political affiliation in Britain and the US, and the more politically loaded terms “leftwing” and “rightwing” were not widely used until after 1960 according to Google’s NGram viewer.
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