New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg warns of the dangers of government by community organizer:
Class warfare as leadership is a hard sell. It seems that this fact has not yet found resonance in the Obama White House. In a historical context, there have been governments formed on the basis of class warfare. Their success rate as a form of governance, however, is highly suspect. It is simply difficult to build prosperity based on envy.
Of course, if you are conditioned to the ideology of the left and especially to the experiences and purposes of a community-organizer mentality, class warfare is perfectly justifiable not only as a political tool but as an actual purpose. The community organizer almost by definition does not need or want the productivity or economic well-being that is created through entrepreneurship.
Rather, their purpose is to take from the producers and pass to the less fortunate, as they define them. Thus when you elect a government of community organizers, as we appear to have done, governing becomes an extension of their purpose of redistribution of wealth.
Gregg's editorial is worth highlighting for its pure distillation of Ayn Rand's ideology; the spoils of economic growth belong to the "producers" of society (read: rich people), and any attempt to redistribute gains to lower-income people is both a moral outrage and an assault on capitalism itself.
When considered in this light, Republican economic policies are perfectly understandable: The rich are unfairly burdened by high tax rates, and so tax cuts are a necessary corrective. The less fortunate are beneficiaries of an immoral system that robs producers of their labor, and as such, we must eliminate food stamps and dismantle policies like Medicaid to restore the proper balance. The list goes on, but the key thing to remember is that this is the ideology that has taken hold among large swaths of the GOP, including elites and activists. As long as that's the case, there is little Democrats can do to satisfy Republican demands.
