High school bully Biff Tannen (‘Back to the Future’ trilogy) was inspired by Donald Trump
Capital is like a bully at school who is supremely dominant. He goes around nicking the other kid’s lunch money. He harasses the girls and litters the place. He doesn’t do his homework but steals the work done by others. The school authorities are aware this guy is a problem for the functioning of a harmonious atmosphere, but, apart from the occasional “ooh you naughty boy”, refuse to expel the bully. Indeed, most of the time, they turn a blind eye to his behaviour, educate the other children that this is just unchangeable ‘human nature’, the only way of running a school. It would take a sea-change in the school authorities to actually expel the bully and create a nice school.
In the real world the struggle between those that want the sea-change and the lying complacent traditional authorities, is manifested as a struggle between political progressives (including the direct victims of the bully who rebel), and conservatives. So beware of the right-ward drift of the Conservative Leadership contest. Your taxes just are what lunch costs. Cutting taxes will not make you richer, it will simply remove any support you have against the bully. You will get less lunch. And allowing the bully to run amok even more will just mean he robs more and more from you. If the bully wasn’t taking part of your lunch money, taxation would not be a problem. Indeed one would see it as good for the school as a whole.
Regime change begins at home, and goal-directed regime change to expel the bully is the only consistent form of humanism. Sometimes, thinking metaphorically can be an aid to truth.
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