John Thune (R-SD) said today that he worries about "class warfare", which is what the plutocrats and their fellow travelers always say whenever somebody talks about the fat cats paying their fair share of anything. (Conversely, when people spend more on bank fees than they do on vegetables, that's not class warfare, that's just our Glorious Free Market at work.)
“I think they think if they can create enough animosity toward Wall Street and corporate America, they get into this traditional sort of Democrat rhetoric and tap into the populist anger out there,” Sen. John Thune, South Dakota Republican, told The Daily Caller. “For Democrats to be successful they’ve got to create a sense of class warfare and an us versus them mindset.”
Or, to put it a different way, when Democrats are properly Democrats--that is: when they stand up for the regular Joe who works for a living--they win. Yep, he's right about that.
Thune said that the White House is “misinterpreting” grassroots anger, which he said has been provoked by “Washington’s wasteful spending and borrowing.”
That's what they say about everything. Suffering gout, lumbargo, and the heartbreak of psoriasis? It's all because of "Washington's wasteful spending and borrowing."
Yes, some people are probably worried about spending--I know a few--but, considering that 80% of the national debt was run up by Republicans, and considering that Bill Clinton handed George Bush a budget surplus, John Thune should not be one to raise his voice on the matter.
Besides, he's wrong on the over-all point. People are angry at ponying up money to bailout Wall Street plutocrats followed by Wall Street plutocrats shelling out $150,000,000,000 in bonus money to themselves when unemployment is at 17% and the very geniuses getting the bonuses are the same ones whose monkeying around with "credit derivative high-five swaps and a pig in a poke" wound up sinking the housing market and causing their mortgage to be under water. That's what they're mad about, and quite properly so.
First person to figure that out wins the next election.
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