Posted on 07/15/2021 5:32:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
How often during the last year of wokeness have middle- and lower-class Americans listened to multimillionaires of all races and genders lecture them on their various pathologies and oppressions?
University presidents with million-dollar salaries virtue-signal on the cheap their own sort of "unearned white privilege."
Meghan Markle and the Obamas, from their plush estates, indict Americans for their biases.
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors Brignac decries the oppressive victimization she and others have suffered -- from one of her four recently acquired homes.
Do we need another performance-art sermon on America's innate unfairness from billionaire entertainers such as Beyonce, Jay-Z or Oprah Winfrey, or from multimillionaire Delta or Coca-Cola CEOs?
During the 1980s cultural war, the left's mantra was "race, class and gender." Occasionally we still hear of that trifecta, but the class part has increasingly disappeared. The neglect of class is ironic given that a number of recent studies conclude class differences are widening as never before.
Middle-class incomes among all races have stagnated, and family net worth has declined. Far greater percentages of rising incomes go to the already rich. Student debt, mostly a phenomenon of the middle and lower classes, has hit $1.7 trillion.
States such California have bifurcated into medieval-style societies. California's progressive coastal elites boast some of the highest incomes in the nation. But in the more conservative north and central interior, nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line -- explaining why one of every three American welfare recipients lives in California.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Their other mantra is to always use OPM...that is, Other People’s Money.
Exempla gratia...Joe and Hunter Biden.
Yup! Vigorish. 10 % to the Big Guy.
“The tax would be 2% on the net worth above $50 million with an additional 1% tax on net worth above $1 billion.”
“The wealth tax would raise approximately
1.0% of GDP per year ($210 billion relative to a $21.1 trillion GDP in 2019).”
https://elizabethwarren.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/saez-zucman-wealthtax-warren-v5-web.pdf
Joe Biden and his Democrats like to spend trillions, not merely hundreds of billions. Take a look at the graph in the linked PDF and try to figure out who might also pay an extended Warren wealth tax in the future.
In many major Democratic cities, you have a few areas with well-to-do people and the rest is filled with low taxable income residents.
Some excerpts from Wikipedia about Comrade Patrisse Cullors and her family members:
Cullors was born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother Cherice Foley is a Jehovah’s Witness. Her biological father was Gabriel Brignac, whom she didn’t meet until she was eleven years old. She was raised in the home of Alton Cullors, who used to work at a General Motors plant in Van Nuys before it was shut down, forcing him to work in low-paying jobs. She has three siblings - two brothers named Paul and Monte, and a sister named Jasmine. Gabriel was a repeat offender who was jailed many times on drugs-related charges and died in 2009 in a homeless shelter. Despite his legal issues, Cullors described him as having a constant and caring presence in her life.
Cullors grew up in a Section 8 apartment in Van Nuys, a poor and largely Mexican-American neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley. Her step-father Alton eventually left his family, leaving Cherice to raise her kids on her own. Cullors said that she witnessed her 11 and 13 year-old brothers being needlessly slammed into a wall by police when she was 9 years old. At the age of 12, she was arrested for smoking marijuana. At this time, she was a student at Millikan Middle School, an affluent mostly-white school for gifted kids in Sherman Oaks. Cullors describes that she felt ashamed going there with her mother in a car, borrowed from their neighbor and Monte’s on-and-off girlfriend Cynthia, since it was in a state of disrepair. She also states that it was the white girls at the school who introduced her to weed. However, when she was arrested, she was attending the Van Nuys Middle School, a school consisting mostly of children of working-class families and non-whites, as part of summer school, due to her poor grades. For her the transition was a shock, as the school had a metal detector and was guarded by police unlike her other school.
Monte was arrested in 1999 after robbing his mother’s car and arrested. Later he was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder. In a fight with prison officers, he was allegedly choked, beaten up brutally, and was forced to drink toilet water. Patrisse has cited this as one of the reasons for her activism. Cullors became an activist early in life, joining the Bus Riders Union (BRU) under the leadership of Eric Mann as a teenager during which time she attended a year-long organizing program led by the Labor Community Strategy Center (which organized the BRU). She learned about revolutionaries, critical theory and social movements from around the world, while practicing activism. Cullors also enrolled at Grover Cleveland High School (now Cleveland Humanities Magnet) in Reseda and was admitted into its social justice magnet program. Cullors went onto acquire a degree in religion and philosophy at UCLA, as well as a MFA from the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California.
Cullors recalls being forced from her home at sixteen when she revealed her queer identity to her parents. Raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, but due to her mother’s teenage pregnancy, Cullors immediate family was shunned by both the church and their extended family members; she remained committed to the faith for years, even in exile, but later grew disillusioned with the church. She developed an interest in the Nigerian religious tradition of Ifá, incorporating its rituals into political protest events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrisse_Cullors
Yes. Look at how the runaway Democrat lawmakers from Texas got to DC. They flew on a rich Lebanese man’s private jet.
They lie and claim they are “for the poor and downtrodden” while they personally live the life of fat cats.
Democrats loot the federal treasury while claiming to care about the poor.
Excellent way of putting this. It also is a good explanation for why so many Republicans join them....to become fellow rich elites like the Bushes.
They like a servant class who is powerless against them. That is why they feared Jan 6. It was not under their control like the ANTIFA/BLM riots were under their control.
***Demmocritic***
If you’re going to correct someone’s spelling you should start by spelling their misspelling correctly.
They are now the combo LaRouche, Sharpton, Nader party.
The wealthy elite - not merely “wealth.”
Never seen a poor Marxist leader yet.
Oops, you are correct. My mistake
Just havin’ a little fun.
I’d love to see VDH opposite some of the morons on CNN, MSDNC and the others. They’d be crying for mercy
Don’t tell me you watch CNN, or PMSNBC? I haven’t watched these channels in ages. I neither watch ABC, CBS or NBC, and haven’t for ages. You can probably guess what channel I watch, but I stick with it. Besides they have some new programs which are worth watching. Check ‘em out.
I don’t go near them.... but I would watch if they’d have Victor Davis Hanson on opposite Don Lemon! Or any of the other stooges from those networks.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.