Mitt Romney’s Failed Definition of Success - Bloomberg: “It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.” That’s Gore Vidal, and it’s unnecessarily vicious. The pleasure of success shouldn’t depend on the prospect of others failing, but the reality of success usually does.
But failures are people, too! If success is mostly luck, then so is failure. When a government policy rewards success in a way that actually does lift all of society, that’s fine. But the policies advocated by Republicans, including Romney -- primarily lower taxes on the higher brackets -- would only make success more successful. They would do nothing to distinguish success for the few from success that really does benefit us all.