Editor,
I’d like to thank Donald Gluck and the UNM Republicans. They made it clear at the SUB teach-in that many conservative Republicans on campus think the (un)Occupy movement is “awful,” and that occupation for free speech, after a period of five weeks, must end.
It pleases me because it tells me they do not stand on the side of the 99 percent, or on the side of free speech.
We all know Conservatives are on the side of the privileged and maintain views that money is speech and corporations are persons.
I want to address the disingenuous concept of class warfare promoted by Conservatives. They look at people speaking their minds about inequality and call it class warfare. The real class warfare is Conservative policies which are creating ever greater poverty and material disparity.
Conservatives give corporations a free ride, waste money on trillion-dollar invasions fought by kids who can’t afford college, they want no economic safeguards and try to dismantle pollution controls.
They’re also trying to take away collective bargaining rights — the rights of people like you and me use to defend our interests.
Fortunately, a bill doing this was just rejected by voters in Ohio. What is the real class warfare? You tell me.
Conservatism’s fundamental idea is that where inequality exists, it is deserved. This is why you always hear Conservatives talk about “equal opportunity” and never “equality in reality.” Those who are less able to compete are morally inferior and deserve less.
It’s the reason why, as Gluck says, Conservatives are not on the side of the 99 percent. It’s a fact everyone needs to understand really well, even if you’re not part of the 1 percent, or 10 percent, or 100 percent. Conservatism promotes the fundamental inequality of humanity — it’s bigotry at its worst.
James Henry Thiel
UNM community member
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