The Entitlement Society 1
Ably represented by Mitt the Flip, as Robin Wells comments at the Guardian. A nugget (emphasis added):
If this research is accurate (as it seems to be, replicated in various ways by several researches), the synergies between it, the increasing concentration of wealth and the Citizens United ruling, have striking implications for the future of the Republican party. As Newt Gingrich, the uber-southern politician, plaintively explained how he lost the Republican primary: “Romney had 16 billionaires. I had only one.” The domination by the super-wealthy means that Republicans not only have no interest in the welfare of the rest of the 99.9%, they have no understanding of why this is a problem. The noblesse oblige days of the old money, such as the Bushes, the Kennedys and the Roosevelts are long gone, replaced by the new mega-money of hedge funds, corporate raiders and global industrialists.
July 13, 2012 at 11:35 am
Oh, you should have put the a-holes part in. I’m convinced the only way Obama can beat Romney is by getting right down to it and showing Americans that Mitt Romney is, indeed, very real when he’s on tv, that he’s the oily and easy to dislike rich guy he appears to be.