But you knew that right? No Democrat could aspire to lead a charge by the 99% or represent the working classes or discuss wealth inequality if they happened to have obtained a measurable amount of material success themselves because that would mean they are an insincere, posturing phony, correct?
We Dems will have to come together to agree on exactly how much personal wealth and the trappings thereof we will allow our class warrior leaders - certain conservative/Republican groups seem to have identified wealth hatred as a collective Achilles heel that can be exploited to divide us. For details see below
While doing my usual morning ramble of the Intertube headlines this morning I happened to stumble across this editorial gem from Investors.com and Investors Business Daily -
Liz Warren: Class Warrior With Heap Big Wampum which leads off with:
2016: Liberals hope that the populist-sounding Elizabeth Warren will run to the left of Hillary Clinton, whom they fear is now too rich and out of touch. But Sen. Warren's financial records may dash their hopes.
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OMG! What could it be? Does Liz secretly own a Third World sweatshop? Does she run a unicorn abattoir? Does she remake sweaters snatched off the backs of the homeless into afghans to be distributed in Business Class?
Uh, no. The problem seems to be that she has financial records in the first place. Financial records mean that a person has finances. Finances mean someone has money, or as the comedian editorial writers at Investors Business Daily put it - "wampum".
Wampum! Did you get that? Isn't that the most f-king hilarious thing you ever heard? because you know, that is a secret reference to her being "Fauxcahontas!" You know, her 'fake Cherokee' background that she parlayed into her Harvard job? That big non-issue that failed to resonate with anyone and did doodly squawt (did you see what I did there?) towards saving Scott Brown's Senate seat in Massachusetts. But some folks never tire of Elizabeth Warren/ Native American asperagus - funny the first time, funny the three thousandth time.
Ok, now back to those records - what exactly is the revelation that will make us proles recoil in disgust and jab at Liz herself with our torches and pitchforks? Friends, excuse me, I meant Comrades, our champion, our own fearless Boadicea has amassed dollars of her own during her working life! She owns a home and a condo! She invests! In stocks! She qualifies as a Millionaire herself!
Let's take a moment to collect ourselves, shall we? Imagine the subterfuge and the machinations that must have been involved in her decades long masquerade of concern about the working class. Consider that sham of an artifice of a facade of a Potemkin village she has constructed around herself as she creates Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus and the like to make us think she cares. Fulminate her winning that Senate seat and using her bully pulpit to embarrass and shame the 1%. And all the while hiding fried humming bird tongues in her brown bag lunch - I could cry.
Actually no, I'm not crying anything except tears of laughter at the Investors Business Daily editorial. It is a masterpiece of unintended hilarity and cynicism. It makes me think that they think Democrats and angry 99%ers are as dumb and malleable as they want to think we are, which really only shows how dumb they are. Imagine someone actually writing that piece of drivel and thinking it would resonate with anyone except perhaps children of Republican voters in Massachusetts who rotate between playing Fauxcahontas and Scott Brown in the schoolyard.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed that detour into how the right thinks the left thinks. Oh wait! I forgot to touch on the part about how we also now fear that Hillary is too rich and out of touch. I happened to see a really funny little video from the RNC about "Poor Hillary" which is yet another attempt to push all the rabble's (that would be us) wealth-hating buttons:
Poor Hillary In this video it is revealed that HRC demands hummus and crudities and fresh lemon slices at her speaking engagements! Is Hummus a secret signal to indicate her sympathy with Middle Easterners and their ilk? Why can't she eat Cheeze Doodles like normal Amurricans?
This RNC video by the RNC is, if possible, even dumber than the Liz Warren Op-Ed. If people are supposed to loathe Hillary and Liz for their earned (not inherited) wealth, how are we supposed to feel about Mitt and Jeb who were both born into families of privilege and can and do out house and out condo Hillary and Liz combined? What kind of food do they ask for in their speaking engagements. Do they fly economy and eschew private jets?
What the hell is the RNC thinking? If they want to promote class war against the wealthy, something they pretend to be against, what makes them think that only wealthy Democratic women will be targets of the hate they are promoting? What about Carly Fiorina? What about Meg Whitman who keeps trying to buy California? What about wealthy men of either Party?
They are thinking the same thing that Investor's Business Daily is thinking - that people who hate wealth inequality who tend to be Democrats hate wealthy people in general and simply saying that someone has wealth is a dis-qualifier without any further thought or analysis. Again, how dumb do they think we are? They seem to think that we are Tea Party dumb. No one is that dumb except . . . . well, you fill in the blank.