03.03.11
What’s it take to threaten the wealthy?
You can recite what’s real for a comedy show. But no matter how damaging, no change occurs. Instead, you get dozens of upper class media type prescribing medicine they and their masters won’t have to take. Like today’s example number one, Fareed Zakaria.
(Along with Tom Friedman and the president, on top of Muammar Gaddafi’s alleged reading list. It’s quite a recommendation, furnished by WikiLeaks, now virtually neutralized by infame, celebrity misfortune and former collaboration with the New York Times.)
Anyway, yYou can threaten protesters with job loss, or try to rig a situation in which they can be arrested.
But suggest the rich need real threats and the gears don’t move a millimeter. It’s just another reason to deliver another sermon on how austerity and sacrifice must be shared.
The Patriotic Class War Song — remastered.
I was a little bitty baby
I was rocked in the cradle
In an old Middle Class-style homeNow that I’m old and broke
I wanna give the rich a poke
In those big places they call homeWe’re gonna invite ourselves to dinner
And shoot ‘em in the kisser
And raze their ritzy mansions to the groundIt won’t be very hard
To piss in the front yards
Of all the shiny houses they called homesWe’re gonna pull ‘em out of cars
And dip ‘em in some tar
Then throw ‘em in a hole and have a laughWe’re gonna find a big ol’ oak
Hang ‘em all ’til they croak
In America, the place that we call home
In America, the place that we call home
In America, the place that we call …