Pointless Polarisation of the Universe

Is one’s morality predicated solely on one’s wealth?  If it is then maybe, as a nation, the U.S. should get rid of the plaque on Liberty Island and its poem, written by Emma Lazarus which includes the lines ‘With silent lips. Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free/The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,/Send those, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/I lift my lamp beside the golden door.’

And it’s almost certain that many of the commenters in the linked thread would strongly disagree with this: (written by Ronald Reagan in the aftermath of the assassination attempt made by John Hinckley, jr.):

 

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