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[chess]

I've been finding out lately that a disturbing number of you are conservatives/Tory supporters of some stripe or another. Being somewhat of a flaming red socialist myself, I'm interested in how you guys justify the belief that the rich ought to get richer and the poor ought to fend for themselves that seems to be the Tory standpoint to me...

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[hatter.livejournal.com]

See me, waving my blue flag. It's not the rich that make the rich richer though, it's the poor. If the poor want to give their money to the rich, that is largely their choice. They largely choose the selfish option, making the most of their personal poverty, rather than supporting their peers.

Ultimately, people are selfish (see my 'democracy sucks' rant) and any system to make it better for those at the bottom is doomed by the people within the system, who will make it better for themselves at the expense of (a) those funding the system and (b) those that are supposed to benefit from it. So as it stands, capitalism is the least morally sound choice, but the most practical.

When those at the bottom of the system start supporting each other, rather than themselves, then conservativism will be good for them, as well as for everyone else.


the hatter