Welcome to the new Serfdom...

Recent political events concern me.

To the extent we try to bring the lower class up to the level of the middle class, we actually take the middle class down to the lower class.  Oh, and by the way, due to the governmental power necessary to implement these "reforms," both classes become the new feudal serfs to the new feudal lords, a condition of bondage or modified slavery, or "Serfdom." Look it up on Wikipedia.

We now have the newly emerging, elite, professional American politicians, coming to rule by pure political force, offering greater (but soon) lesser and lesser benefits for greater (but soon) lesser and lesser protection (just like the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or Venezuela), rather than providing any true and lasting benefits to society as a whole such as the following fine following persons have: George Washington, Bill Gates, Ben Franklin, Vinton Cerf, Abraham Lincoln, Anita Roberts, or Albert Einstein, to name a very few important ones.

Which direction do you support? Pure political force? Or individual freedoms leading to true and lasting benefits to society?

Beality