I have to congratulate beefeater for posting this primitive campfire in such an evocative way.
It's long past time Democrats, liberals, and primitives have been called on their hypocrisy, boasting of their commonality with the ordinary people, but actually as rich as Croesus.
One thinks of the wealthy Kennedys, whose social conscience compelled them to spend money on the poor and the downtrodden--other people's money, not theirs.
Or of Alphonse Capote Gore and the Bostonian Billionaire, who were, and are, vastly wealthier than "rich boy" George Bush.
Or the first presidential cabinet of William Clinton, which boasted the richest members ever, of that body, nearly all of whom had become so during the 1980s, the "decade of greed" they so loudly decried.
On Skins's island, you got the Bostonian Drunkard, Pedro Picasso, the now-banned flyarm, the BeHereNow primitive, the tularetom primitive, the Raven primitive, the kaput primitive, the old dude, &c., &c., &c., who enjoy trust funds and spouse's money and bank accounts much larger than those in most of the country, and much much much larger than those of most of their fellow primitives.
It's long past time they got called on it, whenever they (a) trash the rich and (b) allege any bondship with the ordinary people.
One recalls that during the 1984 presidential nominating conventions, CBS and Dan Rather once in a while flashed little "factoids" on the screen, comparing Republicans with Democrats. They were little boxes of text in the center of the screen, and hung there for thirty or forty-five seconds.
During the Democrat convention that year, there was one "factoid" comparing the average income of delegates to the Republican convention with the average income of delegates to the Democrat convention. It showed a vast discrepancy, a discrepancy most certainly not favoring Republican delegates.
That "factoid" however was not there for thirty or forty-five seconds; it was there for surely less than fifteen seconds before it was blipped off the screen. One could almost hear Dan Rather shouting in the background, "Hey, take that thing down; it makes us look bad!"
It's been a very long time now that Democrats on the average have been richer, filthier richer, than Republicans on the average. It's way past time the record's set straight.
