jannotes

It tells us a lot about the Right when whenever a person stands up to the inequities (and iniquities) of the wealthy class and their influence on political power that they bring up class warfare and envy. It is a simple case of projection: they themselves are by nature envious of others, envy of others is what motivates them, drives them, towards their version of success (material only) and they assume that any criticism of their injustices comes through envy, which then promotes class warfare. Libertarians, who self-righteously claim self-responsibility as the primal master virtue, are the first to claim victimhood (an abrogation of self-responsibility by pointing the finger at others for one’s own failings) which comes out in their pathetic appeal to class warfare and envy as the umbrella excuse for their immoral behaviors and ideology. When I take you to task for your bad behaviors, it is a despicable lie for you to claim I merely envy you, and thus by implication, that if I were in your position, I too would be happy with the inequalities that exist in this society. You mistakenly believe that all human beings share your perverse understanding of what it is to be moral. But your resentment of just criticism shows that you are far from the ubermenschen that Nietzsche spoke of – resentment for him was the arch-flaw in human behavior. Claiming envy is what consumes the “lesser” people (Ayn Rand’s “parasites”) and to claim victimhood (resentment’s progeny) from that is just more evidence of the utter lack of moral fiber or insight of the Right Wing in America these days.