Disinformation and Idiocy: Part 7 of 10

Accusation 7. The left are hypocrites.
Especially those like Michael Moore, who professes to be on the side of "the poor" but has a huge mansion! News flash: the rich are BETTER than the poor because they are successful! If you're one of the rich, you CAN'T be on the side of the poor! Duh!

Now first off, does this nut not remember the phrase "all are equal under God"? Apparently not, but I'll delve into more detail on that in Part 9.

That said, the idea that you cannot help those below you contradicts not only every religious teaching of the past 3,000 years, but also every teaching of ethics in the past 5,000 years. Is that not the whole basis of the idea of charity? To give to those who are less fortunate than you? Is that not the whole idea of progressive taxation, that those with more, if unwilling to contribute to those beneath them voluntarily, must do so anyways? Is that not the entire idea of compassionate government, that those with power must help those without?

According to the US Constitution, the Christian Gospels, The earlier books of the Q'ran, and the majority of the non caste-oriented religious teachings preach that teveryone is equal. That is the fundamental idea of democracy. Every person has the same power with regards to the building and destroying of a government, and no one has less or more than anyone else (in practice, this does not work, as an address is required to vote - which eliminates close to 5,000 of Calgary's population alone).

The whole idea of supporting those of whom you are not a part revolves around the idea of a voice. In a capitalist society, the poor have no voice. In a capitalist society, those without money are those without significance or worth. In a capitalist system, the poor are incapable of representing themselves, where a system of one dollar, one vote renders them powerless. In that system, a voice needs to speak up for the voiceless. Does it not make ethical and moral sense for someone who has a voice to represent those who do not? For if the voiceless cannot speak, then who will do so for them? It is only a matter of time before capitalism turns on those who do have a voice, at which point theirs is useless.

"First they came for the communists; and I did not speak up, because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews; and I did not speak up, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Trade Unionists; and I did not speak up, because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Catholics; and I did not speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me; and by that time, no one was left to speak up for me.-Pastor Martin Niemöller, of the German Confession Anti-Nazi Church