Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ...
by googletazer on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:14PM
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> The wealthy hold the wealth not because they deserve it, but because they have used their power to take it.
Who did JK Rowing rob to get her money?
Choosing to talk about what the rich pay, rather than how they have siphoned wealth from society (i.e. how much of their ill gotten gains should they be allowed to keep, rather than how much do they give) is not a "fact" even if it is a true statement, it is a political position, a rhetorical strategy, and a framing device -- it is an assault on your brain, an attempt to trick you into accepting a conservative frame covertly without being honest about it: "I'm just stating facts, what's wrong with that?" Well, everything is wrong with that. There are trillions of facts yet they state this one. For a reason, obviously.
You can reconstruct perfectly an ideological argument (of any ideology) based only on the sequence of facts they choose to present.