MaggieMae
Reality bits
- Apr 3, 2009
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Big Fitz wrote in part:
Are all rich people evil?
What's the sayin'? "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
Rich is not living well, not even if that is "well" by HGTV standards. "Rich" is having so much money that you simply cannot ignore it and must choose how to use your influence. Bernie Madoff was rich (and prolly still is); Ted Turner is rich; Karl Rove is rich.
Obama is not rich; neither is Glenn Beck (yet).
"Rich" is so much money, you cannot escape it even if you try.
I think one impediment to seeing what is happening more clearly is this deep American yearning to BE rich, or at least hang out with them. Look at Lost Soul; so anxious to declare himself a "success". But if you require earned income to maintain your lifestyle, you are not "rich", regardless of how well you live.
editec may be right, and the proper term is "tragedy" rather than "warfare". But we Americans are having our debates and soon, our elections, shaped by rich people we only glimpse at, while we natter on about American Muslims and other bullshit. We are not losing our environment, our jobs, our financial security, our education system to American Muslims, folks.
We are gleefully handing them to the rich in exchange for a pat on the head, for that brief moment's joy of believing we belong with them.
The wealth envy brain washing continues because it works. The left knows it and the dumb masses believe it.
It has zero to do with "envy." But speaking of code words, that's precisely what the right wing pundits want you to keep telling people so that they can escape all accountability for being the party that supports greed.