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The amount of contempt and entitlement this asshole aristocracy has for the rest of us is staggering. This isn't just about them despising the usual socioeconomic targets - the poor uneducated inner city black kid, the mexican immigrant, etc... these people hate and despise the fat white middle income, probably christian midwesterner... who probably owns a hardware store, and his wife goes to PTA meetings, and they spend their weekends going to soccer games and their nights awash in the glow of football and american idol on the big screem, or surfing facebook and pron on the net. They know they are "better" than all of those people, and that entitles them to steal from them... not just one or two, but every fat lazy slob who is too stupid and/or preoccupied to do anything about it, even as the value of their biggest asset (home) plunges, and their retirement and investment accounts are wiped out - years of hard work just wiped out overnight, and with more brazen, "f*** you" efficiency than the best burglar, car thief or con man, ever.
but...
#2 Nothing is going to change until it gets as bad as things are in Egypt, etc. As long as we are A) comfy and happy in our mid level sedans, warm houses, cable TV and internet, and eating cheap fast food and collecting useless doohickeys made by near slave labor on the other side of the world, and/or B) we have something to lose (kids, etc)... And they're counting on that, which just ratchets up their entitlement and brazeness even further.
The amount of contempt and entitlement this asshole aristocracy has for the rest of us is staggering. This isn't just about them despising the usual socioeconomic targets - the poor uneducated inner city black kid, the mexican immigrant, etc... these people hate and despise the fat white middle income, probably christian midwesterner... who probably owns a hardware store, and his wife goes to PTA meetings, and they spend their weekends going to soccer games and their nights awash in the glow of football and american idol on the big screem, or surfing facebook and pron on the net. They know they are "better" than all of those people, and that entitles them to steal from them... not just one or two, but every fat lazy slob who is too stupid and/or preoccupied to do anything about it, even as the value of their biggest asset (home) plunges, and their retirement and investment accounts are wiped out - years of hard work just wiped out overnight, and with more brazen, "f*** you" efficiency than the best burglar, car thief or con man, ever.
but...
#2 Nothing is going to change until it gets as bad as things are in Egypt, etc. As long as we are A) comfy and happy in our mid level sedans, warm houses, cable TV and internet, and eating cheap fast food and collecting useless doohickeys made by near slave labor on the other side of the world, and/or B) we have something to lose (kids, etc)... And they're counting on that, which just ratchets up their entitlement and brazeness even further.
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