David Harsanyi on Overestimating ‘Inequality’

Some Democrats seem to think that the very fact
“inequality” even exists should be enough to lure the entire nation
to the progressive cause. New York
Times columnist Paul Krugman, in a recent piece imploring
President Barack Obama to put emphasis on social justice in his
State of the Union speech, argued as much, writing that “to focus
on inequality is political realism.” David Harsanyi says this kind
of rhetoric sounds as if we don’t believe that anyone in any of
those groups can help himself anymore. This is a perverted view of
the American experience. 

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