What the American OverClass fails to understand is that the more they get their way, the more they lose in the longterm. They are, quite literally, destroying the middle class in proportion to how much and how fast they get what they want put in place.
Musing on the possibility that the very Foxified traditional media might not even notice that the Wisconsin Democratic Party actually won the state Senate majority during last night's 'Let's all form a circle and Jerk Off Scott Walker' hell.
Recently, Las Vegas casino mogul (and big Citizen's United fan) Sheldon Adelson lost $2.2 Billion dollars from his personal fortune in 48 hours on Wall Street. Jesus and a chorus of angels Wept.
What Shady Shelly needs more than any quick uptick in his battered stock portfolio is a thriving middle-class. He needs that more than anything, but Shelly is apparently a pretty slow learner. Still all-in on all the circle-jerking myths about the Job Creator Class, still refusing to see that a crock of bullshit is a crock of bullshit even as his fortune pisses out billions, he's still too fucking busy playing around and cutting big checks to the wingnut welfare crowd to see he's not really winning. When you are in the middle-class screwjob business, middle-class poverty starves your beast. The poor don't have a choice about 'Going Galt', they are broke.
You aren't going to like things when the middle class joins the poor in being forced to "Go Galt" against their will, Sheldon. You and Steve Wynn are going to be in the deep shit even deeper.
Nobody who's broke because of Rightwing economics is going to go to Las Vegas if Mitt Romney wins the White House and immediately goes and doubles down on what made them all so broke in the first place, Shel. The popular culture's media fantasies about "Whales" flying on into town and spilling wasted millions into your kitty is pretty much as bogus as the idea that your brand of economics is about "building" the middle class and "restoring" the nation's economy. It's only a thriving middle-class, one that allows for regular people to have some disposable income, that really feeds your beast. The rare Saudi Prince or Japanese Whale is your frosting not your cake.
What does every rich asshole in the world need?
The same thing that every decent small business owner who doesn't think he or she is a King or Queen because they were born into the Lucky Sperm Club. Customers. Lots of somebodies who just don't have a fleet of 150K cars have to be able to buy your shitty fast food, see all of your cliched movies, or run to your overpriced resorts, or you'll have a really huge longterm problem. It may be comforting to think of me, and the millions like me, as all a bunch of lazy loaf-arounds who don't actually want to work, but there is this problem with that theory: it's a lie. A lie that is killing your profits as much as it is grinding down on me and my family.
While you, and the Koch Brothers, and Steve Wynn, and the Dominos Pizza Guy are thinking of this nation as your Chess board, I haven't gone into a casino in two years, not even for a meal. Not even at one of those suburban Locals Casinos run by your pals who think bragging about all their various successful attempts at union busting is oh-so-very appealing to oh-so-many of us people struggling to just barely get by. As far as I'm really concerned, you are all the same kind of gold-plated parasites and you can all pound the same dry old sand. Nobody is boycotting you and your pals on the Strip, Shel, you and yours have gotten your way, and we're all broke now.
You eliminate the middle class, you have essentially economically slit your own throats. So what do you and your peers do? You get a shiny brand new law that lets you and yours fix election easier so you can do more fail, bigger, badder, faster, and more. Genius.
You know what Citizen's United doesn't stop?
I call it 'The Sheldon Adelson Equasion':
No Middle Class = No Suckers.
No Suckers = No Casino.
No Casino = Casino Mogul is fucked.
You might just end up merely rich, Shelly.
Or you and your dumbass pals might very well destroy the greatest experiment in human history out of your stupid spite and greed. But that's just it, because if there's no us, there is no you.
At some point, Movement Cosnervatism's fails mount up and mount up to the point where the reality that they can now outright buy an election now won't save them from their own policy poison. Destroying organized labor doesn't fix the problem that you are destroying the middle class, oh great moneyed class, you will feel that pain no matter how much Citizen's United is destroying our democracy because it's your policies, and not those standing in their way, that will be crushing you in the future.