"Injustice" replaced by "Inequality" as the Socialist Crusade

He who controls the language, controls the argument and the agenda . . .

The War on Misfortune

By: John Hayward  |  December 9th, 2013 at 03:28 PM  | 

It’s always wise to assume the worst when you hear politicians declaring war on a vague notion, such as “inequality.”  Inequality is replacing “injustice” as the eternal socialist crusade of choice.  ”Injustice” had too many connotations of actual law enforcement – something the Left generally dislikes.  They really hated it when their quest for cosmic, redistributive “social justice” was conflated with the mundane business of arresting thieves.  Also, the public was beginning to wonder how much unjust treatment of decent, law-abiding people they would be expected to swallow in the name of achieving centrally planned “social justice.”

“Income inequality” is a far better dragon for aspiring socialist knights to slay.  It’s open-ended and entirely subjective.  There will always be a lot of people with low incomes, and a much smaller group of people with higher incomes… who are, in turn, easily conflated with people who are asset-rich.  You’ll notice the Left’s jeremiads against the Evil Rich make no distinction between the businessman who earns a million dollars, and the trust-fund kid who inherits it.  Their policies tend to be far more effective at soaking the former, but they pretend they’re really angry at the latter.  And of course, special exceptions are made for the deserving rich – people who earned their millions fair and square, like entrenched incumbent Democrat politicians and entertainers.

There’s no way to carve up and redistribute the pie enough to make “income inequality” disappear.  It will always be large enough for collectivists to declare it unacceptable, and demand new compulsive powers to do battle against it.  It’s a problem the government can easily make worse – as Barack Obama’s Wall Street-oriented economic policies have done – while foisting all blame on whatever remains of the “private sector.”  It’s the global warming of politicized economics. . .

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