JoeB131
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Wealthy venture capitalist Tom Perkins says the 1% in America are treated like Jews in Nazi Germany - Salon.com
Tom Perkins, super wealthy investment capitalist, writes....
Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its one percent, namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the rich.
From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent. There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these techno geeks can pay. We have, for example, libelous and cruel attacks in the Chronicle on our number-one celebrity, the author Danielle Steel, alleging that she is a snob despite the millions she has spent on our citys homeless and mentally ill over the past decades.
This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent progressive radicalism unthinkable now?
Speaking of Hitler, there's that scene in Mel Brooks The Producers where they do the opening number "Springtime for Hitler" and the audience's jaws are on the floor.
I think that's the only appropriate response here.
Tom Perkins, super wealthy investment capitalist, writes....
Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its one percent, namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the rich.
From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent. There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these techno geeks can pay. We have, for example, libelous and cruel attacks in the Chronicle on our number-one celebrity, the author Danielle Steel, alleging that she is a snob despite the millions she has spent on our citys homeless and mentally ill over the past decades.
This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent progressive radicalism unthinkable now?
Speaking of Hitler, there's that scene in Mel Brooks The Producers where they do the opening number "Springtime for Hitler" and the audience's jaws are on the floor.
I think that's the only appropriate response here.