Mind-Controlled

One reason that Levin is the great one is that he and Rush understand the liberal mind, our opponents, about as well as anyone out there. In his books, Levin warns us that class labels are an artificial category meant to capture the the economic range of millions of people. He denies that these labels are meaningful and apply as strictly, precisely or permanently as the Left claims that they do. I for one accepted these class labels from the Left as reality because I have been told them for over 60 years.

He basically argues that Americans should be regarded as individuals and just taxed at a flat rate. The Left has convinced all of us that we are in economic groups: the poor, the middle class and the rich. The Left has us believing it--me included that we are identifiable as in a certain class. Once people are in groups, they are easy to refer to as victims, requiring expanded, "compassionate" federal laws to be based to soak the rich to transfer wealth illicitly from the rich to the poor and middle class as part of a progressive wealth redistribution scheme. Of course, an unconstitutionally vast and ever-expanding federal beast is required to intervene in private economic affairs to equalize livings between these different classes that they invented.

There is a vitiating influence on those that are poor and in the middle in two ways. First, as lower class people, and being wards of the government receiving federal goodies in exchange for their loss of freedom and independence, lose their personal drive and initiative, these fatalists no longer dream of escaping their poverty or modest means, breaking into upper class status or rich living. To be grouped is to deprive each group member of her dream to go it alone and become whatever she dreams of being. Class assignment is one more killer of dreams dreamed up by the Left.

Second, as the state grows, tyranny and selflessness grow. As class identity becomes a life destiny as wards of the state, people are cut off from the life that God demands that they live: as capitalists, free, operating from the motive of enlightened self-interest doing their thing and amassing their life of liberty in a republican society of small government and astounding dreams being routinely imagined and then made real.