So I'm a leftist now?
Don't you mean again?
In Obama World, Americans have a sense of community and shared purpose. Those upon whom fortune has smiled -- through accident of birth, educational opportunity, career-enhancing connections or any other kind of "right place, right time" serendipity -- recognize that extending a hand to those who do not enjoy such advantages is not just morally right, but ultimately beneficial to all.
So, let's say I wind up making a decent living off of the degree I'm working on (BS in computer science, w/ a minor in math and another in physics). At what point will I have "lucked out," as they seem to say? :rolleyes:
My wife and I are paying for my education with money we earned and then, by living well within our means, saved up (and continue to do so). Perhaps my wife is my "career-enhancing connection," since I'm able to depend on the commitment we've built through the years for support.
No wait. It must be the "educational opportunity" I was blessed with. I mean, it's not like just anybody can get their GED like I did, after not completing a single year of high school. Only the blessed can then work hard in community college (and before that on their own) to make up for their missed high school classes. That must be why I'm not looking at the prospect of flipping hamburgers for the rest of my life. These 4.0 GPAs are falling into my lap because of fortune, not lots of %#$@ing work.
Ah ha! I've got it! It's "accident of birth." All the money I was born into. It's not like my father worked his ass off, starting as a house painter making minimum wage, working multiple jobs and long hours to get his family a better life. It's not like, after years of effort and long grueling hours in his subsequent career, he slowly but surely took himself from the bottom to $100k a year. It's not like he did all that with a GED, a broken home, and an alcoholic father.
I'm so racked with guilt over all my gobs of “connections” and how I'm just always in “the right place at the right time.”