It is not difficult to divine. Like food, it can be broken down into four distinct groups:
1. The Undeserving Poor: These are the tens of millions of people who once had jobs, and money, and homes and pensions, but no longer do. Most of them are pissed off because they know they didn't lose their money because of some Act of God but because they were swindled, and they want someone to do something about it. The better-informed among them realize they've been swindled by banks, insurance companies, globalized trade policies, etc., while the lesser-informed among them blame Negroes and labor unions.2. America's Job Creators: These are several thousand people who have money, and who have amassed a great deal more money over the past decade, primarily by swindling the people who no longer have money. They are also pissed off and want someone to do something about it, but the reason they're pissed off is because the people who have no money are being greedy and ungrateful for asking them to give them their money back.
3. America's Leadership Class: These are several hundred of our elected officials, corporate and media barons, etc. They also have a lot of money, but they divide ideologically along two distinct lines: Those who think the people who swindled lots of money from the people who don't should have to give a little bit back to the commonweal, and those who feel that the people with no money are morally deficient and in need of further abuse. Both sides agree, however, that the people who have no money will need to accept their penury for the foreseeable future as part of the social compact and in the spirit of shared sacrifice.
4. The Serious Persons: These are a few dozen people who formulate and articulate policy for America's Leadership Class. While they also have a lot of money, they're basically sympathetic to the people who no longer do, but what concerns them most is the need of the people who were swindled out of their money to cease their needlessly divisive class warfare and unite in a spirit of bipartisanship to move America forward into the digital age by investing in education, science and infrastructure, all without ever raising anyone's taxes. How to accomplish? By requiring the people who no longer have money to submit to fiscal discipline.
The has been another episode of State of the Electorate. Everything else you read on the subject from now until November is just a lot of redundant blather.
---Vitelius
Comments