Screw the Unemployed. Global Warming, too. Got a lump in your breast? Or does Lefty hurt, south of the belt? Are you being foreclosed on? Did your pension disappear?
Too bad.
Those things might be of great personal import to you, and in the aggregate, of great import to politicians. But in the even greater scheme of things, they don't mean diddly to me.
Let me introduce myself: I am the plutonomy. And you are not.
No matter how many votes you have, whatever mandate you think you carry, I can stop it. Kucinich was correct, is correct, but in the end, it doesn't matter. Whether he's one lonely voice in Congress, or a raging majority. It's really too late for people like him, like you, or even for those Teabaggers, with all their misplaced rage.
I am powerful because I can destroy things.
Here's my power: I can destroy forty-, fifty-, seventy-, eighty-percent and more, of what I have, and still be fabulously wealthy to the end of my days. On a standard-of-living basis, I wouldn't even know the difference.
Thing is, I'm not just rich, I'm rich to the point that that forty-to-eighty percent destruction impacts whole economies.
And in doing so, I can knock entire industries, entire countries even, back into the 19th Century. I am that big, me and my homies.
Democracy? Go for it. You can have a million votes to my one, and I can still say no. And make it stick. Just ask Bernanke and Geithner.
I got yer jobless recovery right here -- it's because of me. I am the driver of what you euphemistically think of as the "economy," -- me, and a few hundred of my friends, against you and your millions.
You'd have to work eleven thousand years to match what I make in one.
How quaint of you to think of me as lighting cigars with hundred-dollar bills. Fact is, I light them with the smoking ruins of banks. And I smoke a lot of cigars.
You know, Vonnegut was right: "Everything is going to become unimaginably worse and never get better again." For you, he was right.
So go ahead and vote more and better Dems, for all that it'll get you. All I have to do is tell your wild-eyed, principled newbies in the House is that I'll move a major manufacturer out of their district, and they'll get in line, soon enough. And that's just one of the the little things I can do.
Q: What's the largest thermonuclear device around?
A: Doesn't matter to me. Economically, I've got more destructive power. I'm wearing it in a belt around my midriff, with my thumb on the trigger. Difference is, although I'm wearing the belt, the suicide's gonna be yours, not mine, should you make me hit the switch. The worst thing that'll happen to me is that instead of ten mansions, I'll have maybe only three or four. For you? Well, martial law will be the least of your concerns.
What's that you say, you're gonna regulate me? Chuckle. I am global, you are local. The USA, big as it is, is still local, government-wise. That's the fun part. You could elect the next FDR, and it wouldn't really matter. I'll just tickle the finances of Greece, or Portugal, or Spain, or whomever, and impact you that way. Kinda like beating up your sister if you decide to be stubborn.
Who was that that put the rest of you within 24 hours of a global economic collapse, hm? That was me. Just as a warning.
I'm the definition of Old Money, in a 21st Century way. If the feudal system had computers, the French Revolution would've never happened. Yay for technology. I am so powerful that I can afford what a democracy costs me. Because I can stop the big things, and make you think the small things are actually going to make a difference.
Did I say 'screw global warming' earlier? Why yes I did. You may think I don't believe it, but I do. In the next 50 years, two billion people are either going to be dead, sick, hungry, or on the move. I don't deny it.
But I do pay people to deny global warming for me, as well as other things like Peak Oil. Balancing the Panic, is what it is. Gives me time to invest in industries that will profit from it.
Just thought you might appreciate what you were up against.
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