The weird thing is that a lot of these people already have a very comfortable “piece of the pie.” A family member who probably earns about $100,000 per years from his union job, and has the Cadillac of benefit plans, announced that he’s voting for Obama because Obama’s going to “give him things.”
This entire campaign has been about fostering a sense of resentment and grievance among people who have no reason for it. If they want to make more money, they can; they just have to work harder and invest in something. If they want to have a happier life by running their own business, they can; they just have to take the risk. But somehow the passivity and resentment of the ghetto class has spread up from underneath like a poison absorbed from the ground. Well, I shouldn’t make it sound so passive: one of the major Alinsky/Ayers/Obama game-plans was to play on resentments, building them where they did not exist, and essentially bring about the “class warfare” that is so important to the installation of Marxism.
When people who have absolutely no reason for resentment start waving closed fists and screaming “I want pie,” I think we can say that the strategy has succeeded.
Read the speculation in the NB story as to why Hillary might be behind the release of this video.