Felonius Ax of the Billionaires here, reporting from Charlotte.
We are the smallest, most beleaguered minority in America today, and here at the Democratic Convention, it feels like we’re even smaller and more beleaguered. All of us were out in force in Tampa last week, but there aren’t enough Billionaires in Charlotte to fill a clown limousine. It’s mostly our entertainment and media moguls who are here. But just like Mitt and all the other Republicans who were running, President Obama has a Super Pac, and I and those of my class can make humongous, unregulated donations to it, if only as an insurance policy, should the billion dollars we’re pumping into the Republican side of the equation this Fall somehow fail.
It’s too bad more of us aren’t here, because Charlotte is a wonderful place to be. Mainly because it’s smack dab in the middle of a Right-To-Work state. Workers in North Carolina can’t be forced to join unions, which means lower wages and wimpier benefits for them, and bigger profits for us. I am basking in schadenfreude as I watch hundreds of union members, the meat of the Democrats’ coalition, circulating through Charlotte with an air of unease while non-union workers clean their rooms and direct them around the convention hall.
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