Drew the line. The interests of the idle wealthy and the interests of the people of the country. I suspect some of the comments so far could have been written last week, last month or last year, and others are waiting for Limbaugh’s take on things.
We’ve seen the agendas. Do we want to head into a place where 1% of the people control 99% of the wealth, or are we a country “of the people, for the people and by the people”? Oddly enough, your basic middle-class conservative will be thrown under the same bus as the rest of us, but somehow think they’ll be spared if they can only screw the impoverished hard enough. The Conservative agenda played out has a banana republic as THE ideal, and why that appeals is not within my understanding.
I think it has to do with “Rambo” and John Wayne movies. Some people identify with Rambo or Wayne, and think they’re going to survive and be heroes. All those people who get shot are fools, and they are worth ten, or twenty or thirty of them, and immortal besides. In reality everyone is cannon fodder, there is no Rambo or John Wayne, and that adolescent idea that they are immune to that which affects “common” people hasn’t faced any sort of test.
And yet there are people out of work, living off of their families, mortgaged to the hilt still believing they are independent, self-sufficient and smarter than yer average bear. Ayn Rand is their ideal, and Ayn Rand would sneer at them. Did sneer at them. Had no regard for them. Regarded them as parasites.
I know Romney has to be a bright guy, I know he’s accomplished some things, and I don’t have any problems seeing him as the MC on “The Price is Right”. He certainly doesn’t have any respect for the American middle class and I guess that’s my test. Do people have the right to benefit from the resources of the State, or is that reserved for the mega-wealthy and large corporations? Obama and Romney certainly epitomize that difference, one rising from relative poverty, the other never experiencing what it is like for most Americans.