The hysterical response of the RightWingers to Obama's "spread the wealth" comment to the Person Who Will Not Be Named In This Diary Because I'm Fucking Sick Of Hearing About Him is instructive. It tells us much about precisely how much those folks hate the vast bulk of their fellow countrymen.
Spread the wealth. Get everyone involved. Give everyone access to things like decent health care and a good education. Provide the basics of food, shelter, and clothing to everyone who doesn't have them.
What AWFUL, unAmerican ideas, huh?
What's American then, for the Right? Why, it's refusing to spread the wealth, it's keeping the wealth concentrated right where it is presently, that is, in the hands of a tiny little elite of power brokers who effectively use it to run everything and control the lives of the rest of us.
It's support for the largest distance between the wealthiest and the poorest of any country in the developed world. It's acquiescence in the stagnation of income for the majority of the members of society and the celebration of an upward spike in the income of the wealthiest 1% that we have not seen since the days of the Robber Barons.
What's American, for these monsters? The total domination by the wealthy minority of the impoverished many. The haves crushing the have nots into the dust.
The fact that every media source in this country didn't jump all over McCreep's mobilization of "spread the wealth" says something grave and troubling about how widely the thoroughly anti-democratic narrative of contemporary American capitalism is accepted, or at least seen as something that cannot or should not be critized.