The lady doth protest too much. Yes, she does. This is, however, absolutely emblematic of the trickle-down, 1%, aristocratic, we're smarter 'cause we're richer, entitled wealthy, vulture capitalist, modern welfare queen mentality.
The right has made a more than century-long battle out of clearing more and more entitlements for themselves at the expense of the less wealthy. We give more in subsidies and incentives to highly profitable oil companies than we are willing to invest in education for those in need. We have been badgered into lower taxes on those who need less on the myth that those in need don't need it and waste it.
The right has succeeded in codifying that those with money deserve more than those without. For those with vast wealth, there must always be an easier way.
I don't wait in line, says the lady dripping gold. I'm VIP. The poor don't understand, says the other lady in the Range Rover. They're uneducated, ignorant.
This is the way of the privileged and this is the way of Mitt. He thinks he can get away with anything, because he always has. Legal documents? Just formalities. Disclosure? That's for those who can't afford lawyers. Truth? It's what I say it is, says Mitt. If you disagree with me, you're anti-American, because anti-me is anti-wealth and that's class warfare because in America we worship wealth. Wealth is not just power, but the power to avoid obligations of citizenship, obligations of leadership and obligations of truth. Wealth not only permits me to get aways with anything I can, it obliges me to try, in the way of the right.
I speak as one of them. I am in the one percent and I've dealt with one percenters my whole life. I quote them because I've heard it over and over and over and over.
They think they deserve privilege.
They will use anyone and anything to keep what they think they deserve. Laws are to be circumvented, regulations are bad, constraints on my ability to plunder are criminal and Communist.
I have non-one percenter friends from growing up who actually buy into this stuff because of all the other garbage that gets wrapped around the the core garbage: Christianist primacy, so-called values, so-called right to life, so-called liberty, so-called common sense and the rest of the excrement.
This is the right.
And it is absolutely dead wrong.
Obama must win, Democrats must extend their majority in the Senate and the right-wing House must be reversed.
This is a cross-roads for the soul of America and it's time to restore our journey down the path that brought us to greatness.