I concur that calling socialism the politics of envy is small-minded and usually self-serving horseshit, Richard.

I have to add that there is a subspecies of human who survives mainly by draining the efforts of other people, and who will do almost anything to avoid exerting any effort themselves; such beings exist more surely than vampires do. And often, they end up cloaking themselves under far-left politics. But, on the other extreme, purely destructive psychos often cloak themselves under far-right diatribes. Both extremes are sorry rationalizations or projections. And that does not change the merits of either socialism or meritocracy.

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