Sometimes you just have to call the baby ugly rather than make people wonder if you were just being nice by saying it’s breathtaking.
Likewise, Matt Miller talks about our incessant need for reassurance and Nicholas Kristoff talks about how us turning into a banana republic is insulting to banana republics. What is striking about Kristoff’s column is he is typically a foreign affairs columnist that focuses on third world issues more than American politics. That is why this particular paragraph gave me chills to read:
“I’m appalled by our growing wealth gaps because in my travels I see what happens in dysfunctional countries where the rich just don’t care about those below the decks. The result is nations without a social fabric or sense of national unity. Huge concentrations of wealth corrode the soul of any nation.”
Hey America, your progressive income tax rates are really breathtaking.
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