The most idiotic quote ever

I found it. The most idiotic quote ever.

"I think that with Occupy Wall Street there was a sense of the heat getting turned up and a feeling of vilification and potential danger," said Jamie Traeger-Muney, a psychologist whose Wealth Legacy Group focuses on counseling the affluent. "There is a worry among our clients that they are being judged and people are making assumptions about who they are based on their wealth."

 

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[Janicket]

If they don't smarten up and stop grinding everyone else into poverty, they may have more to worry about than hurt feelings. History is littered with examples of elites being slaughtered by the downtrodden when they'd had all they could take. And American exceptionalism is no defense to such waves of underclass fury.

[Turgidson]

agreed, Janicket

These idiot bajillionaires seem bound and determined to turn their irrational bedwetting hysteria into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

What I puzzle over is that these billionaire rightwing yahoos spend their money on GOP candidates who will make this "progressive Kristallnacht" fever dream MUCH MORE LIKELY. The biggest reason nothing like that has happened in modern history, is that the mostly FDR/LBJ-installed safety net exists and provides enough basic assistance that even the very poor mostly have a high enough quality of life that they aren't going to band together and grab their pitchforks.

They want their feared war on the rich to actually happen? Electing Romney/Ryan and giving the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver free reign to torch as much of the safety net as he can would have been a good start. Hollow out Medicaid/Medicare and slash basic welfare programs, and it won't be long before the poor and even lower middle classes will become desperate enough to lash out at the people holding the boot to their necks.

I don't go out of my way to have political arguments in real life, but one of the things I say nowadays is that even the rich should be deathly afraid to vote for today's GOP. The short-term windfall the rich might get from some tax cuts will be a trifle compared to the ruin the teabaggers would inflict upon the entire nation's societal fabric, and this includes them. Maybe they think they can do the Elysium thing and leave the planet to its demise from the safe distance of a luxury space yacht, I dunno.

[AnneJ]

You would think that with such great financial wealth, it would be harder to get so butthurt over comments people make about you. Maybe it's a symptom of affluenza.

[Jason]

"I don't understand why my son never calls, and why he's always bad-mouthing me. I mean, I gave him a place to live and put food on his plate. Sometimes I'm not even sure he loves me. It really hurts my feelings," said the violently abusive father.