01.26.14
Rich Man’s Burden: Progressive pogroms
This is a tune and video that only gets more excellent and fitting in our modern country. And, of course, you should spread it around and hit up the count, helping it toward 1k of big views on YouTube.
From the Wall Street Journal letters page, Tom Perkins, famous tech venture capitalist, sings out his pity the billionaire blues in a most peculiar manner:
Regarding your editorial “Censors on Campus” (Jan. 18): Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its “one percent,” namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the “rich.”
From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent. There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. We have, for example, libelous and cruel attacks in the Chronicle on our number-one celebrity, the author Danielle Steel, alleging that she is a “snob” despite the millions she has spent on our city’s homeless and mentally ill over the past decades.
This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent “progressive” radicalism unthinkable now?
Tom Perkins
San Francisco
For discussion and adding linkage: Pity the billionaire screeds comparing the poor fighting back against inequality to Hitler-ite fascism.
Tom Perkins’ 130 million dollar yacht, the Maltese Falcon, registered to another country and long kept out of frequent American port visits due to “tax implications,” according to the video.
And here it is, escorted by much smaller yachts, dashing under the Golden Gate bridge.
Bill said,
January 26, 2014 at 9:10 pm
” I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its “one percent,??? namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the “rich.??? ”
I have reached the point where my ability to believe in the depths of stupidity has now been permanently and irreparably damaged.
What an incredible load of fatuous bullshit.
And perhaps 1% of the readers will actually take any of that seriously.
Sad commentary on our species.
George Smith said,
January 26, 2014 at 10:40 pm
Satire is obsolete in the US, Bill, to our regret. The man, Tom Perkins, is so wealthy no one says him nay: “Hey, Tom. you need a few gin and tonics to calm down. You’re really making yourself into a weird ogre with this.”
He’s not the first to compare his class to the persecuted and destroyed in the last year. Just another example of the hermetic encapsulation in WhiteManistan tribes, large and small. “Hey, those ‘people’ are looking funny at me!”
Jeff Immelt, General Electric, all bummed on 60 Minutes that more people don’t applaud him.
Pity the billionaire.
Christoph Hechl said,
January 27, 2014 at 1:28 am
We may have to accept the possibility, that money itself and the power that comes with it when amassed in great magnitude do actually corrupt peoples brains and turn them into a mentally unstable state.
Therefore it is our social duty to help these poor creatures along, by carefully removing them from the source of their corruption, while at the same time thankfully acknowleding their personal efforts to keep the majority of us out of harms way.
It’s only for their best really.
George Smith said,
January 27, 2014 at 12:52 pm
If only it could be done. We’ll get a great speech at SOTU tomorrow and then it will be pretty much back to business as usual. Then, later in the year we’ll have an election with the distinct possibility of putting more billionaire-back right wing crazies in power for the acceleration of the reverse-Robin Hood-ism that this country’s become so well known for.
Put up your wagers now on how many GOP Congressmen will boo the president or shout something like “You lie!” More wagers on how many citations of class warfare will be in the Wednesday morning papers.
Bill said,
January 27, 2014 at 9:28 pm
“Jeff Immelt, General Electric, all bummed on 60 Minutes that more people don’t applaud him.”
These guys spent too much of their childhood reading Richie Rich comics.
George Smith said,
January 28, 2014 at 10:19 am
Richie Rich. Boy, that dates us. I remember seeing the title at my comic store but 25 cents a week didn’t go far, two twelve cent comics and a couple pennies in tax and it didn’t seem very appealing.