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In reply to the discussion: Dear mother of Gawd, I am tired of arguing with rocks [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Democrats inherited their mommie and daddy's money, and home and businesses. And all of sudden, it was not such a good idea to be on the side of the worker - because paying a living wage to the workers would cut into their personal profit. And they enjoyed the good life, and because they had cried at Bobby Kennedy's televised funeral, they still considered themselves Dems.
They don't realize they act ever so much like Republicans, well, they couldn't be a Republican, could they - they voted for a man who is an African American so that must mean they are Dems, right? Even though they would no longer know an old school, truly democratic principle if it came up to them and bit them on their arse.
And you can hardly blame them for mortgaging the company they inherited to play with that money on the dot com bubble or housing bubble, and if the money got lost and they had to declare the company they inherited a bankruptcy, which of course ruined the workers' pensions, while they got their Golden Parachutes, well, what else could they do? They are not of the worker's class, so they shouldn't be the ones who suffer.
Under Obama, their investments and financial holdings are way way up. Because they can benefit from the Wall Street give-aways and transfers of monies from Main Street to the Financial Firms, that just proves even more so how their voting for Obama was a wise and wonderful thing to do. Which further cements in their hearts and minds the idea that they are Democrats. Although I doubt they think about it all that much - too many vacation places to go and too many swell places and stores to spend all that money.