Indeed.
It is an especially offensive condescension that comes from those hypocrites who, laying their head down on a hill of hundred-dollar bills, preach to us about how unimportant money is, how we should be happy with what we have, not strive for material gain, that we need to find an inner, spiritual peace and balance. It is especially egregious when they use that wealth to alleviate their own sense of hyper-materialism by backing and imposing upon the “little people” legislation that strips them of their material possessions even as we struggle to maintain our jobs, our homes, and give up any dream of retiring and face the grim possibility of working until we drop dead in order to maintain this “too extravagant existence” of ours.
While I’m not a fan of the French Revolution and view it as diametrically opposed to the American Revolution in that it ushered in France’s age of socialism, we are witnessing in this phase of U.S. history a near repetition of France’s history with the flagrant collusion of the governing aristocracy/oligarchy to make the richest even richer and more powerful and doing so at the expense of the middle class.
While I loathe that aspect of French history that was marked by the guillotine, I can understand how people can be pushed into that decrepit level of blood-lust.
Obamacare is one signal signpost on the way there. Will the ruling class submit to the same austerity that it wishes on the little guy for the sake of some kind of medical care equality? [Expletive] no!