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The New DU. Reply #51: The Theory of the Leisure Class is satire
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ThorsteinVeblen
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Wed Aug-06-03 11:24 PM
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| 51. The Theory of the Leisure Class is satire |
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Edited on Wed Aug-06-03 11:37 PM by ThorsteinVeblen
Veblen, like Swift, was a misanthropist. The lower classes disgusted him as well because all they did was envy and try and mimic the Leisure Class. And if any of them happened to acheive wealth and entry into the Leisure Class they became just as bad or worse.
All our Democratic candidates belong to The Leisure Class - to dismiss one as untenable because he is a member of The Leisure Class is to eliminate them all. Any candidate that does not belong to The Leisure Class is sick with jealousy and driven only by his ruthless ambition to social climb into The Leisure Class.
President=Leisure Class
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Thorstein
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