. black is good...whitey is bad..
..some of the "rich" are terrified of being called a racist, therefore will risk their life, liberty and property in order to avoid being called one (even if they are)
This is about power. It's about perceiving oneself as The Elite. We really are heading into a new age of serfdom, and the people who believe that they can (and should) play the part of Lords really like Obama.
It's Fascism. The government helps the rich, and the rich help the government. The government receives a lot of tax revenue [from the rich] and the rich receive preferential treatment [from the government].
This is also why political parties don't matter. Obama is an Elitist. Romney is an Elitist. They want power above all else. Political differences are pretty negligible.
Feed the beast. Maybe it’ll eat you last.
There’s an easy answer: $40k is a bargain basement price tag when the gubermint is for sale and what better party to sell it than the RATs? Good grief, add it up ... you shell out in the thousands and down rain the billions. It is just the price of doing business if you don’t have any scruples and again, what better party to approach under those circumstances than the RATs?
I agree somewhat with all the sentiments expressed so far. But what a lot of the rich want is to reduce social mobility. Now that they are in the lifeboat, or yacht, they don’t want to have to worry about competing with all the strivers out there. One effect of Obama’s policies is to freeze people into economic castes.
You may have as much money as you need, but your status is threatened when others strive to have even more than you.
Has anyone gone to jail for any part of the 2008 looting of the US. The case of Don Corzine is instructive. Stole 1+ billion, handed a good part of it over to Morgan and still bundles for Obongo. For the rich, what’s not to like?
Easy question.
First, we note that the 1% in some fields are disproportionately supporting Obama. This means that they are supporting the one who promises to discomfort them with higher taxes and verbal attacks, and who will undermine the system which enabled them (and the rest of the country) to prosper. So why?
It is because people hold opinions which have little to do with the plain evidence before their eyes. Even intelligent and talented people do this. Political belief is a form of religion in today’s world, and one become enculturated in it. I know many smart people, very sensible in their own fields, who have a brain disease when it comes to understanding politics and the larger world. You could explain things to them endlessly, and they do not get it. They substitute for thought parroted lines from the NY Times.
This is why the polls show so few real swing votes. The country can go to the devil, and very few people actually change their minds. The swing votes, such as they are, represent people who know even less than the others, and are not even paying attention. We might as well register for voting a gigantic heap of dice, which will be thrown on election night to determine the outcome.
Elections mean very little, and certainly tell us nothing about truth. The electoral system is useless in running a big, complex government. That is why the only real solution is a very restricted, simple government, with most of it decisions made locally. We have long since outgrown the field of efficiency for the electoral system. As an example, watch the French elections this weekend, and see if you think that they will solve any of the obvious problems confronting that country. You will find that it really makes no difference which of the four parties wins.
The Russians give us an example: after some seventy years of horror and irrational, hellish government, still a large number look back on Stalinism with nostalgic affection. You obviously should not put any trust in people like that. They are still human beings, but culturally sick and feeble ones.
The Chinese had a mass-murdering tyrant as their ruler, who killed as many of the best farmers as he could, dressed everyone (male and female) in blue uniforms and sent them out to build backyard smelters and construct giant dams by hand — and yet they keep his ridiculous flag, and his hateful visage appears on their currency, even after they have almost totally abandoned his teachings. There is almost no one in China leading a Maoist life, and yet almost no one opposes his party and its rule.
So, it is not surprising in this country that many smart people (especially those conscious of their intellect) are unable to sort out politics, even those politics is actually a very simple game, when you get down to the fundamentals.
It's all spelled out in 'Atlas Shrugged'. '
What John Q. Public sees is just the tip of the iceberg. Few are aware of the vastness of waste, mismanagement, lack of accountability and duplication of effort. This is due in large part to a liberal media that is loathe to report on the failings of their beloved big government even though information is routinely available on the topic.
It's all spelled out in 'Atlas Shrugged'. '
What about the rich doctors...they do not like or trust Obama. Mine are seething over obamacare. I’ve never seen such anger from them.
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I think it was Michael Medved who described this attraction well. The rich and powerful who want to stay that way and prevent others from reaching that level want big government to stymie others and bail them out. Those trying to work their way up cannot buy votes and don’t want government to constrain them.
Because they (the really rich) understand the game and know most of anything Obama says is pure BS, that it won't happen that actually Mr. Obama is one of them - worth millions now if not billions....there is a middle class and that group of Americans are not getting any dividends from their investments because of the Obama rape of their economy....Mr. Obama became mighty powerful and mighty rich in just a few years...and not from playing golf.
Liberalism is a religion. Obama is the high priest of liberalism. One needs go no further than that.
With a bit more elaboration - just about everyone has a natural tendency to do what’s good and what’s right, and most of us lesser beings use our religious beliefs to try to figure out how to do that.
Those too sophisticated (and often too proud) to accept the sovereignty of a Supreme Being tend to look to fulfill that longing of the human spirit in other ways, the most common being humanistic utopianisms, of which various flavors of liberalism are the most common.
Like any sort of belief system, liberalism can lead to otherwise intelligent folks acting in a totally stupid fashion. Academia is full of people who actually are quite smart - and still they commit themselves to a completely failed ideology like Marxism, despite manifest evidence of its continual failure in practice, and what’s more, its detachment from anything resembling actual reality.
Reports about fewer people wanting to work have been dismissed as “right wing spin.” Yet it was none other than the Congressional Budget Office that predicted this phenomenon, after the Obamacare bill was signed in to law.”
All of the posts above mind ring so true.
All I can offer is the quote above and remind everyone of the two ladies who said they didn't need to work, pay their mortgages, pay for anything. It was going to come out of “Obama’s Stash.”
Of course they don't worry, Papa Obama will be there for all things necessary, needed, or wanted. Why work.
One of the reasons is because the rich historically enjoy slumming.
A BLAST FROM THE PAST (Lest We Forget)
Years ago I founded, published and wrote my own conservative newsletter which was circulated nationally. Here's an article from the May, 1970 issue:
"Mrs. Leonard Bernstein, wife of the composer/conductor, recently gave a party in her plush Manhattan apartment to raise defense money for twenty-one Black Panthers and other militants indicted on charges of plotting to kill New York policemen and to dynamite midtown department stores, police stations and railroads.
"Mrs. Bernstein, who founded the womens' division of the New York Civil Liberties Union, invited a group of Panthers to the party to talk and mix it up with her elegant leftist society friends.
"The Panthers, who openly despise the wealthy socialites, nevertheless accepted their monetary contributions to aid in the revolutionary movement. During the party, Donald Cox, Panther "Field Marshal" gave a little speech outlining his organization's goals, which include violent overthrow of the government and the imposition of a communist economic system in the U.S.
"Then everyone had a good time amidst the expensive furnishings, the elaborate flower arrangements, the cocktails and the hors d'oeuvres."
The salon party gave me the inspiration to compose a poem to accompany the article:
THE ELEGANT SLUMMERS
Mrs. B. sat on the floor, clad in pantsuit by Dior
As she welcomed all the Panthers to her upper-crust soiree
It was a social plummet for Mrs. Sidney Lumet
But one must admit the whole affair was charmingly chi-chi
Dear Mrs. Peter Duchin learned gobs of revolution
As she nibbled pate d'foie gras dipped in rare imported cheese
Noveau Riche and Broadway Star stuffed themselves with caviar
As they ooh-ed and aah-ed at all the Marxist theo-ries
Midst the cocktails and canapes, chandeliers and velvet drapes
The Panthers knocked the Country and the System and the Pigs
Socialistic plans were told, Communism was extolled
And the ones who cheered the loudest were the wives of rich big-wigs
Then somebody passed the hat and out came the wallets fat
And the guests donated to the rev-o-lutionary crew
Mrs. Lumet gave a sigh, "Oh, these fabulous Masai
"I haven't had so darn much fun since making my debut"
They do have fun and games, these addled New York dames
As they undermine the system that provides them with their dough
But there is a shining ray - if the Panthers get their way
The fortunes of these dilletantes will be the first to go
Peter Duchin was a piano-playing entertainer to the rich and famous. He was the son of Eddy Duchin, the famous band leader. His mother was a rich NY socialite.
Mrs. Lumet was heiress Gloria Vanderbilt. She was the wife of Hollywood film producer, Sidney Lumet who was her fourth husband. Her next marriage produced her son, CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper.
Today the same old New Black Panthers patrol the streets of Sanford, Florida, issuing threats of violence and extortion with impunity. In 1970, the well-off Hillary Rodham was a law student activist in support of the Panthers. Today, the wealthy Eric Holder openly supports the Panthers.
Why do the decadent wealthy support Obama? I guess the more things change, the more they remain the same....and the rich still love to slum and feel superior to the riff-raff they mix with......and whom they support with donations.
Leni/MinuteGal
Remember: most of the rich inherited that money. They lack the talents of their forebears and they know it. They need the government to assure that they maintain their station and rid them of competition from those pesky middle class wannabes.
Our rich liberal elites are the same type found in South American banana republics. They keep their power by paying off the criminal class...