NYT Editorial: What They (Republicans) Don’t Want to Talk About (Income inequality. Class warfare)
What They Dont Want to Talk About
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The more President Obama talks about narrowing that gap, the more his popularity ratings have risen while those of Congress plummet. Two-thirds of Americans now say there is a strong conflict between the rich and the poor, according to a Pew survey released last week, making it the greatest source of tension in American society.
That makes Mr. Romney and his party vulnerable, as he clearly knows. He said on Wednesday that issues of wealth distribution should be discussed only in quiet rooms. And he accused the president of using an envy-oriented, attack-oriented approach, entirely inconsistent with the concept of one nation under God.
Mr. Romneys image of a country where workers have nothing but admiration for benevolent, job-creating capitalists (and no one is so impolite as to mention jobs destroyed) bears very little relationship to reality. But his suggestion that it is un-American to talk about rising populist resentment is self-serving and hypocritical. Republicans, in particular, have eagerly stoked such resentments against minorities and the poor...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/what-they-dont-want-to-talk-about.html?_r=1&src=tp
via:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/15/1054927/-NYT-Editorial:-What-the-GOP-Doesnt-Wanna-Talk-About?via=siderec
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you, SHOCKED!
PEACE!
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)It is the ordained role of the 1% to do whatever the hell they please to the 99%, and it is the ordained role of the 99% to submit without complaint to the will of their overlords.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Only more so - he gets to fuck all of us.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)NYT actually ventures to take a stand and tell the truth? Maybe is there is some hope for them.
Neoma
(10,039 posts)One of the more obvious facts in this world...