Obama and "Fairness" Demagoguery

Bruce S. Thornton   It’s the Philosophy, Stupid    "Some political Socrates needs to challenge this formula by asking for a definition of “fair.” Clearly, having the top 10% of taxpayers pay 70% of all income taxes — while nearly half of taxpayers pay nothing — isn’t considered “fair” by those who want to increase taxes on high earners. So what would be fair? Having the top 10% pay 80%, or 90%, or 100%? The US already has the most progressive tax system among 24 OECD countries, ahead of socialist heartthrobs like Sweden and Norway, so what more do Democrats want?"

Victor Davis Hanson: The Demagogic Style  "Under a more skilled practitioner such as Barack Obama, the arts of demagoguery have become somewhat more refined in our time, but they nevertheless follow the same old patterns:"

1) The use of an incendiary, but otherwise unimportant, example to whip up anger against the so-called establishment classes....
2) The demagogic rejection of demagoguery....
3) The evocation of anonymous straw men, sometimes referred to as “some” or “they”....
4) First-person nausea....
5) Inconsistency of position, predicated on the (always changing) perception of 51 percent majority opinion....

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