In a week when the President decided to soft peddle the rampant income inequality in our nation in his State of the Union address, one Tom Perkins, a venture capitalist who is a multi-millionaire, wrote a letter to The Wall Street Journal in which he compared the deserved villification of the 1% with Nazi Germany's Kristallnacht.
Because so many of America's 1% have lost their lives and had their businesses destroyed by folks like me who are calling them on the carpet for their willful destruction of the American Dream in pursuit of their own greed.
You know what the real problem for people like Mr. Perkins is? We flat out don't believe their bullshit anymore. We know that they don't create jobs, that their wealth doesn't trickle down to the rest of us, and that frankly our lives are not one whit better because some free market apologist is worth countless billions of dollars (well other than The Wall Street Journal, which anymore carries all the gravitas of Fox News). We know that the man behind the curtain is not a real wizard--that the only thing these people are really expert at is their own unfettered greed.
Kristallnacht? He should be so lucky.
Peace,
emaycee
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