Dreamers dreaming about their dreamworld

[USA4ME]

Armstead

Maybe we're envious. I gotta admit...If I were really rich, I'd do the same as the Koch Brothers
 
A thought struck me after reading yet another article about how sophisticated and effective the Koch Brothers (and their peers in the Right Wing Millionaire Activist Club) are at getting their way and steering the national dialogue and policies in their direction.

If I had a gazillion dollars-- or even an extra billion or million or two -- I'd be doing the same things they are doing. I'd fund think tanks and lobbying groups, and create or support "grassroots" organizations like the Tea Party that advance my agenda. I'd buy air time to sponsor issue-ads and I'd give money to candidates who shared my views....Maybe I'd invest in a cable network that expressed propaganda.

Of course, my goals would be totally different. I'd be pouring my slush fund into the hoppers of people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. I'd be lobbying for a raise in the minimum wage, a return to regulation of big corporations and the financial markets, support state politicians who want extend voting rights, fund progressive populist think tanks and movements like Occupy...etc.

I'm not wealthy. Just scraping by, barely. And too few of the people who have Big Resources share those views. Some do, but not nearly enough.

So I gotta admit. I'm envious of the right wing. They have a lot of Sugar Daddies (and Mommas). And they're getting the things they espouse, while the progressive side of the spectrum is getting its clock cleaned.

All we have is millions of people, most of whom are struggling to get by. Yes, we try to mobilize that and (like me) give a little bit when we can afford it. (yes I'll have a paid-up star on DU again once I get my own finances cleared up enough.)

But it would be a biog help if there were more truly progressive rich folks who were willing to ante up big bucks to advance a liberal populist agenda.

The sad thing is that human nature is such that we tend to support what is in our self interest. The Kochs have an obvious stake in shrinking government so it won't pester their enterprises. And keeping people ignorant and desperate so they can exploit consumers and workers.

But maybe, someday, enough people with money and clout will see that the Public Interest is also in their own self interest. That would be one way to level the playing field.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024372323

Yammering from a bunch of lazy butts wishing they were magically rich, and then claiming if they were they would behave differently than liberals/progressives have in the past. Being a slave to big gov't is the opposite of why the US Constitution was written. Primitives are such fools.

What I see are a bunch of nobodies who wish they were somebodies hoping anybody will listen to them.

But they are only laughed to scorn.

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[Bad Dog]

Normal folks give up dreaming like that in their early teens.

[Carl]

Soros...one of the most greedily evil people alive.

Warren Buffet...lectures that the rich should pay more while he fights the IRS to not pay money they say he owes.

Chomsky...biggest hypocrite to ever live.

Kerry...nuff said.

**** you DUmbasses,you worship them and then want to rob from me.
Go die in a ditch you useless parasites.

[obumazombie]

Normal folks give up dreaming like that in their early teens.

After a short diatribe in semantics, or maybe even polemics, you might be inclined to ask...How dare you ?
I view a dream as something worth working for and fighting for.
If you have a dream, and you don't lift a finger to make it come true, then I would call that a fantasy. I would compare it to a lib fantasizing about winning the lottery.
But, before you ask...How dare you ?

[movie buff]

Soros...one of the most greedily evil people alive.

Warren Buffet...lectures that the rich should pay more while he fights the IRS to not pay money they say he owes.

Chomsky...biggest hypocrite to ever live.

Kerry...nuff said.

**** you DUmbasses,you worship them and then want to rob from me.
Go die in a ditch you useless parasites.

Don't forget the innumerable ultra- rich, ultra-liberal Hollywood celebrities.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Not my favorite version, but it works:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHacDYj8KZM[/youtube]

[DumbAss Tanker]

If those schmucks spent as much time in productive work as they do writing up daydreams for the New Socialist Utopia, they'd be too busy and too invested in capitalism to be posting on DU.

[Karin]

But it would be a biog help if there were more truly progressive rich folks who were willing to ante up big bucks to advance a liberal populist agenda.

What the hell are you talking about, DUmmie?  You have all of Hollywood, all the music industry, all the filthy rich people in Manhattan, including *gasp* Wall Street. 

All we have is grass roots.  Koch Brothers are an anomaly. 

[Wineslob]

If I that kind of money, I'd be RICH, BITCH.

[Gern]

Armstead (31,866 posts)


I'm not wealthy. Just scraping by, barely. And too few of the people who have Big Resources share those views. Some do, but not nearly enough.

The very fact that you see yourself as a product of your present circumstances is evidence enough that you will never move up the socioeconomic ladder.

Everyone is where he or she is, because that's really where he or she wants to be, whether they will admit that or not.

[obumazombie]

The very fact that you see yourself as a product of your present circumstances is evidence enough that you will never move up the socioeconomic ladder.

Everyone is where he or she is, because that's really where he or she wants to be, whether they will admit that or not.

That kind of unvarnished truth is intolerable to libs.