What HBO’s smash series ‘Succession’ Gets That AOC Doesn’t...Americans don’t want to hate the rich. We want to feel sorry for them.

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What ‘Succession’ Gets That AOC Doesn’t

Americans don’t want to hate the rich. We want to feel sorry for them.

www.politico.com

it's sad how wealth can dominate your life basically

 

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The Roys might be myopically powerful; in the most recent episode, they hold court in a hotel room at a conservative confab and presume to choose the next GOP nominee for president. But the real point of the show is that they’re powerfully miserable. Every episode finds them clawing for love that doesn’t come, undercutting each other at every turn, embarrassing themselves in front of people who are eager to see them fail. The show is a cautionary tale — or maybe, to viewers, a happy fable — about how wealth is a ticket to misery. In a world where money talks and policy isn’t certain to change, at least the Roys offer a kind of catharsis. They’re still on a teetering elephant ride, and those of us who will never reach those heights are eagerly watching the struggle — and finding it as delicious as the fall.

Even the kids’ shows on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon have long peddled the dream of a rich kid’s life: tweens living in a luxury hotel, on a yacht or in a New York penthouse, where every material wish is at their disposal.

class warfare has always been a difficult thing to legislate. Despite polls that show a majority of support for it, no lawmaker has succeeded at turning the idea of a wealth tax into law. Earlier this month, Sen. Ron Wyden (D) of Oregon became the latest to fail when he introduced a billionaires’ tax to President Joe Biden’s spending package. It lasted a day in the bill.

 

[odanny]

This should probably be in the "Reviews" forum, not the politics forum, even if you highlighted one sentence about a billionaire tax. The well written article reviews the HBO series "Succession", not politics.

 

[Grumblenuts]

It really is a shit show. After enduring the first three episodes we're done.

 

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The Roys might be myopically powerful; in the most recent episode, they hold court in a hotel room at a conservative confab and presume to choose the next GOP nominee for president. But the real point of the show is that they’re powerfully miserable. Every episode finds them clawing for love that doesn’t come, undercutting each other at every turn, embarrassing themselves in front of people who are eager to see them fail. The show is a cautionary tale — or maybe, to viewers, a happy fable — about how wealth is a ticket to misery. In a world where money talks and policy isn’t certain to change, at least the Roys offer a kind of catharsis. They’re still on a teetering elephant ride, and those of us who will never reach those heights are eagerly watching the struggle — and finding it as delicious as the fall.

Even the kids’ shows on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon have long peddled the dream of a rich kid’s life: tweens living in a luxury hotel, on a yacht or in a New York penthouse, where every material wish is at their disposal.

class warfare has always been a difficult thing to legislate. Despite polls that show a majority of support for it, no lawmaker has succeeded at turning the idea of a wealth tax into law. Earlier this month, Sen. Ron Wyden (D) of Oregon became the latest to fail when he introduced a billionaires’ tax to President Joe Biden’s spending package. It lasted a day in the bill.

Libs--always suffering jealousy and envy.. and when real life doesn't prove their feelings valid, they make up shows and films to substitute for facts of real life. The Series is really rather sad and says a lot more about the writers and communists fantasies than it does about the Murdocks.

 

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"The success of a show that revels in the sorrows of being rich might even hold a lesson in political messaging for the likes of Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). If “Succession” leaves Americans feeling that they don’t want to be quite as wealthy as the Roys — that it’s better to occupy some comfortable but less excessive spot on the prosperity spectrum — then scolding, “soak the rich” rhetoric might not carry the day."

 

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"“Succession” lets us revel in the Roys’ exquisite misery, savoring every insult and rant and self-inflicted abasement. It's not the poor punishing the rich, or the less-rich punishing the very rich. It's the rich punishing themselves. Maybe that's their tax."