"Zero-sum"
Not a term that I was unfamiliar with, but one which I had not connected to a train of thought I'd been working on.
I had commented on a post at Autonomy For All wherein I had used the awkward phrasing "finite-ist" and "infinite-ist".
"Finite-ists" were those bratty little five-year-olds at birthday parties who were always whining that somebody else's piece of cake was bigger than theirs.
They grow up to be petty, greedy, angry right-wingers: the cake is finite, so if some body's piece gets bigger, theirs, by definition, has to get smaller.
(Compare and contrast with "infinite-ists" -- those kids who didn't care in the least how big everybody's piece of cake was: everybody had some cake, so it was all good.
In the adult world: something good happens to you, and I'm not damaged in the least. In fact I receive joy from the fact).
"Zero-sum" -- one characteristic of the right wing worldview.
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