If you think tha Attila the Hun and Alexander the Great and more modern conquerors like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were good, then yes, greed is good. It’s what drove them. If you think that the Medieval Lords were right to tax the peasants to starvation so they could have vast palaces and be surrounded by luxury, then greed is good. If you think an America where wealth and privileged are family assets that are handed down generation by generation to a tiny oligarchy while the vast majority are excluded from any participation, left to eek out starvation diets or die in the cold streets, then greed is good. Banana Republics are societies set up on greed. So if Haiti is your cup of tea, then greed is great.
Greed may seem good to the Gordon Gekkos of the the US. They are among the wealthiest 1%, and they know that with their brains and position, greed will serve them admirably. Who cares if we waste the talent of hundreds of equally brainy children born to poor families in the Banana Republic they yearn for? They are on top, and their children and grandchildren will be too, for as long as the family survives. But they have a problem. In a democracy, you can’t win elections with 1% of the people. And so for the last 40 years, a handful of billionaires have been funding right-wing think tanks and PR firms to convince more and more average Americans that trickle-down is the only answer. And that effort has given us the caustic partisan divide we have today.
Nancy Pelosi didn’t lurch far to the left ot Tip O’Neill. John Boehner and Paul Ryan are far, far to the right of Howard H. Baker. Take an inventory of the Great Republicans of the 1960s, through the 80s, None of them could survive a Republican primary today. Those that want an oligarchy here declared class warfare on the middle class and the poor. Their biggest Big Lie to cover that up is bellowing class warfare (as in the poor stealing all the nation’s wealth) whenever anyone points out what their greed is doing to the America we once knew. But that’s just projecting.
It is those who would be the perpetual oligarchs that declared class warfare, and they have used clever talking points and PR to turn a sizable percentage of the American middle class into their dupes, out shaking their fists at the very people who are fighting for a viable middle class instead of a banana republic.