All Entitlements are Bad
Among the fascinating aspects of entitlements in America is the downstream effect they have on culture, politics, society – virtually everything we do in interacting with one another. These downstream impacts are overlooked by most, perhaps all of us, yet are detrimental to a functioning society.
When people are entitled by race, for example, thereby told by society for generations that their needs outweigh the desire of any mature society for equal treatment of all under the law, the consequence that the entitled will decide anything they want is more important than anything desired by others should not be a surprise. If we’ve told people for three generations that their desire, often – usually – un-earned, is more important than the desire of another to be treated fairly in access to education or jobs, fair treatment in the job market goes by the wayside.
When people decide an entitlement must always be there, regardless of the reality behind it – such as Social Security, from which nearly everyone receives more than they pay into it, making it an entitlement – and then ignore the reality that it is a Ponzi scheme utterly reliant on fertility – bad decisions are made regarding its future, the future of the population, the future of civilization, itself.
And when people are led to believe by media and their peers that they, somehow are entitled to their ideology, regardless of the need for censorship to spread, promulgate and inculcate that ideology against all reason and history… expecting to be entitled to the election result desired translates into being perfectly entitled to steal any election.
If we want to have a truly fair society rooted in logic, law and rational dealings with one another, entitlements must be ended. Not ending entitlements and expecting government based on fairness and delivering earned results is naïve foolishness. It can’t happen.