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http://www.alternet.org/culture/crybabies-1-percent-rich-complain-while-getting-away-everything***SNIP
All this brings to mind the recent controversy over Tom Perkins remarks, comparing animosity toward the rich to the kind of hatred that eventually culminated in the genocidal persecution of the Jews by the Nazis. Perkins absurd exaggeration elicited a storm of condemnation, and rightly so.
Perkins remarks (which have been echoed by various other 1 percenters) point to the real affluenza, rather than the fake syndrome conjured up by an expert witness to help get a rich kid off the hook for four homicides. The real affluenza is the failure of the rich to appreciate that their special privileges such as the privilege of operating under what is, from a practical perspective, a substantially different justice system than everyone else must come at a price.
That price is paid in the form of the growing contempt of their fellow citizens, a contempt that grows in proportion to the ever-increasing gap in America between the children of privilege and everyone else.
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Crybabies of the 1 Percent: The Rich Complain While Getting Away With Everything (Original Post)
xchrom
Feb 2014
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Laelth
(32,017 posts)1. k&r for exposure. n/t
-Laelth
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2. There's two numbers these clowns need to think about. 1789 and 1917.
the first one got them shortened and the second one got them shot.
If they want to act like modern day Bourbons and Romanovs then they need to remember what happened to them.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)6. They have rewritten history and don't even know what these dates refer to. When you are that rich
you think you do not have to learn about history. One idea they should learn though is "History repeats itself."
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)4. DU Rec
Gothmog
(145,839 posts)5. The 1% are hurting their case
They need to shut up
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)7. Well, to be fair, in the USA there are 3.14 million people in the 1%.
And we really don't hear anything from the vast majority of this number.