Doc Sowell hits another one out...

There are many I would like to have had for a teacher, Dr. Thomas Sowell one of them. From his column;

Today, in America, many denounce the black-white gap in economic and other achievements, which they attribute to the same kinds of causes as those to which the lags of Eastern Europeans have been attributed. Moreover, the persistence of these gaps, years after the civil-rights laws were expected to close them, is regarded as something strange and even sinister.

Yet the economic disparities between Eastern Europeans and Western Europeans remain to this day greater than the economic disparities between blacks and whites in America — and the gap in Europe has lasted for centuries.

Focusing attention and attacks on people who have greater wealth-generating capacity — whether races, classes, or whatever — has had counterproductive consequences, including tragedies written in the blood of millions. Whole totalitarian governments have risen to dictatorial power on the wings of envy and resentment ideologies.

Intellectuals have all too often promoted these envy and resentment ideologies. There are both psychic and material rewards for the intelligentsia in doing so, even when the supposed beneficiaries of these ideologies end up worse off. When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. 

Read the entire column. It's not too long. His point is well made. Engaging in class warfare is as old as time. It's not about lifting people up out of poverty. No, it's not that altruistic. Class warfare is about one thing. Power. If you can convince the ignorant that it's someone else's fault for their situation, you can harness tremendous energy. The problem, is that it's negative energy that is used for evil purposes. Look at the French Revolution. If you don't want to go back that far, look at the Arabs. They've always blamed the Jews for their problems. They even sided with the Nazi's so they could kill Jews. They keep their people illiterate and ignorant for the early portion of their lives, so by the time they're older, most are beyond redemption from the brainwashing. 

The same happens here in the US. The far left, for the most part, has control of the public schools. From earliest childhood, kids are programmed. The media, mostly propagandists for the left, feed this. Most parents are too busy, or don't care that their kids are being indoctrinated instead of educated. It's amazing what kids aren't being taught. They are, however, being taught who is to 'blame' for all the ills of the world. Class warfare leads to some very nasty outcomes. It won't stop, however, because of the lust for power. Because 'We the people' allow it.