2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you know a really rich person? [View all]NNadir
(33,527 posts)If you are handling "prized possessions" you are by definition working with people who are by nature absorbed by material considerations.
Overall this rote attack on Hillary is specious, and very typical of the "guilt by association" logical fallacy which has become very fashionable here, to the detriment, I think, of addressing the exigency of the real emergency before us all.
These continuous attacks - the one I heard that Hillary is in favor of slavery being the most stupid - serve no purpose at all. It is not enough to say that everyone else is bad; it is far more important to say why and how you are good. More importantly it is important to show why you are good.
I have known a number of rich people, some very, very, very well and I would say that in my experience, those who are born rich tend to be the most clueless, although there are obvious exceptions, like Seward Johnson who built the wonderful Grounds for Sculpture near where I live.
Now my wife's uncle was not born rich, but is rich now and is still an asshole. My cousin got rich, and proved to be a compassionate helper for many members of his extended family.
Just last week I met with an extremely wealthy guy with a passion for engineering and for saving lives. He's demanding, driven, hard working, but totally devoted to making the world better. He could sit on his ass and live wonderfully, but he's not.
I once worked for a guy whose father gave him control of 100 million dollars when he graduated college and he treated people like plastic toy soldiers.
I don't really like Bernie Sanders. I think if he is elected he will end up flailing, an ideological Don Quixote who will prove ineffective in doing anything but making the world safer for reactionaries: And let's be clear. We are facing a strong and completely unscrupulous reactionary movement right now, a terrifying movement.
But this is not to say that Bernie Sanders is not a thoughtful and decent man. I'm sure he is.
But I am tired of these silly statements that "Hillary is like so and so, or supports so and so" that is based on tortured associations, with one's own pedestrian life is making me begin to despise a large portion of the Bernites I see here. They are not making Sandersism show in a positive light.
What is your point here? You're going to hang rich people? Throw them in prison? Nationalize their assets?
Are these your positive statements? What do you want to do? Smash the "prized possessions" of the assholes for whom you worked in order to exorcise your personal demons?
Or do you have some positive thing to say? Do you know how to say a positive thing about your candidate rather than negative things about Ms Clinton?
Grow up.