(10-20-2017 11:43 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(10-20-2017 09:29 AM)JustAnotherAustinOwl Wrote:  I hear a basic defense of the role of government in reaction to what many of us on the center-left and left perceive as a fairly strong rightward lurch against things like basic services and infrastructure, etc. in the Republican party.

1. What lurch? Specifically what "basic services" do you see on the defensive? Or "basic infrastructure"?
2. The point at which he says "you didnt build that" is one of two things. One is a falsity. The "you didnt build that" is a strong misdirection (a falsity) because in a strict review of the federal tax income that "buil[t] that", the people who are the object of his 'teaching' actually probably did "build that", since the vast majority of income tax revenues came from the evil greedy capitalist mfers that he is supposedly 'teaching to'. Bummer about that fact.
So why else state that?
Yeah, has *nothing* to do with constant chorus of "pay your fair share" scolding that is so incessant from the liberal camp. Nothing at all. He just laid a whopper of msidirection for ***** and giggles I guess....

Exactly. Unless the statement is some kind of dog whistle calling for a collectivist/socialist/communist massive redistribution scheme, what is the point of making the statement?