vanden Heuvel: upper class waging war against us (voters, campaign, Republicans)
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Republicans finally settled on a true Plutarch — Mitt Romney — as their banner carrier. Romney has waged a campaign of upper-class disdain for the electorate. He was the “gated candidate.” He didn’t let his presidential race impede plans for a multimillion-dollar expansion of one of his beach homes, complete with elevators for his cars. He scorned revealing tax returns that would reveal the dodges and havens he exploited to pay a lower rate than do the cops who patrol his streets.
For almost this entire campaign, Romney has been described as a nearly accidental candidate - one who, by dint of Herculean shaking of the Etch-a-Sketch, managed to navigate the Scylla of the slavering far-right primary voters and the Charybdis of the no-taxes-ever independents.
Ms. vanden Heuvel has the right of it: he's neither a right-wing nor a moderate candidate. He is, in fact, the candidate of Gilded Age plutocracy. It has been claimed occasionally in the press that, if elected, Romney would take American society back to the 1950s. This is absurdly untrue; his aim is not the Age of Eisenhower, it's the Age of Rockefeller.
For almost this entire campaign, Romney has been described as a nearly accidental candidate - one who, by dint of Herculean shaking of the Etch-a-Sketch, managed to navigate the Scylla of the slavering far-right primary voters and the Charybdis of the no-taxes-ever independents.
Ms. vanden Heuvel has the right of it: he's neither a right-wing nor a moderate candidate. He is, in fact, the candidate of Gilded Age plutocracy. It has been claimed occasionally in the press that, if elected, Romney would take American society back to the 1950s. This is absurdly untrue; his aim is not the Age of Eisenhower, it's the Age of Rockefeller.
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There have always been folks like Romney, who were a good reason for the Communist revolution... and the French Revolution, and the American Revolution, and the Cuban Revolution, and...
There have always been folks like Romney, who were a good reason for the Communist revolution... and the French Revolution, and the American Revolution, and the Cuban Revolution, and...
There have always been folks like Romney, who were a good reason for the Communist revolution... and the French Revolution, and the American Revolution, and the Cuban Revolution, and...
For people like Romney it is inevitable that the public will eventually grow tired and separate their bodies from their heads and their cash. Romney and people like the Koch brothers can do their best to postpone it, but eventually the US is going to have to deal with the uprising of the 99%.
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Anything you say, Comrade.
