How do the 1%-ers feel about all us 99%-ers out here in fly-over country?

[Philosoraptor]

How do multi-multi-millionaires really feel about us, those not fortunate enough to have been born into a family of multi-millionaires? How can they possibly relate in any human way to the suffering we are all experiencing? How can they possibly know what it's like to live from pay check to pay check? How can they understand we underlings who are struggling?

What is in the hearts of the 1%-ers when they want to take away SS and Medicaid from those less fortunate than themselves? Are they just plain mean and stingy? Haven't they read the Bible they always quote? How can they claim to be Christians when they would deny help to the least among us?

What if they were forced to live on food stamps for a year? What if they had to work for the minimum wage they force on the rest of us? What if they actually had to WORK for a living?

To me, voting for romney/ryan is the same as voting for two creatures from Jupiter because I can't relate to them in any way, and they can't relate to me or you in any way either. Right wingers and tea baggers seem totally disconnected from the reality of living in the real America.

All the gop has to offer is the usual, hate, hate, division, insults, paranoia, jingoism, uber-capitalism and hate. How can you run an election based on screwing the poor AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME?

What to romney and ryan and their ilk really think about us out here in the cheap seats?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I'm convinced that to them we are the equivalent of farm animals.

We're just livestock. They don't imagine what life is like for the 99% any more than they imagine what life is like for a dairy cow. They get the milk from the cow, they get whatever we produce, and that's all they care about.

[Philosoraptor]

2. Parasites

Leeches, vampires, living off of our life's blood, riding in limos, living in mansions with car elevators, how can they possibly understand WE THE PEOPLE?

[RC]

10. They get their milk from a refrigerator.

They hired help buys it from the grocery store, or they have it delivered with the rest of the food. Cows are for Ameristar commercials or somethin'

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. I think they have a vague understanding that cows exist

and that they are the ultimate source of dairy products. In the same way, they vaguely understand that there are a whole lot of other people out in flyover country who do things and make things for their benefit. But they have no concept of the actual lives of cows or of the other kinds of livestock (like us) who exist only to supply their needs.

[durablend]

3. Oh that's easy

They're up in the private plane merrily clinking glasses and sipping champagne.

"Oh look out the window...somebody's house is on fire"

(plane bursts into laughter)

[Odin2005]

4. I'm a rural American and I approve this thread!

[nanabugg]

5. They really don't think about us except as war and voting fodder. nt

[Philosoraptor]

6. We're awfully good sports about it

I just can't remember repubs being so blatantly hateful to the poor and the not like them crowd. 'Screw the poor' is just a strange election platform.

[HubertHeaver]

7. They flush their toilets as they fly over.

[Enrique]

8. it varies

actually Mitt Romney is a particular type of rich person. He is a greedhead and it is amazing to me that he ended up as the GOP nominee.

[Zorra]

9. Their thoughtless, destructive, wasteful lifestyle indicates a profound lack

of consideration for anyone or anything but themselves.

At a time in history when we desperately need to be protecting our resources and environment, these greedy little devils are wantonly using up our resources and defiling our environment with their luxurious lifestyles and corporate practices at warp speed.

It is imperative that we bring these greedy little children under control before we reach a tipping point where the planet can no longer sustain abundant physical life. It's possible that we have already reached this tipping point, but since we don't really know if we have reached this tipping point, it behooves us to make a concerted, steadfast, united, sustained, and unstoppable effort to prevent these selfish, thoughtless 3 yr olds from causing further harm to our lovely home, our beautiful planet earth.

IMO, a possible way to begin to solve this problem is for a critical mass of us to formulate and generally agree upon a viable plan, and begin a direct action consisting of a worldwide general strike/boycott, and then surrounding the offending members and enablers of the status quo with sheer numbers of resisters.

We then, as kindly as is possible, remove all of their apparati of control from them, and prevent them from doing any further harm.

The bottom line is, we the people are going to have to confiscate the factors and means of production, eliminate all vestiges of 1% media and media propaganda, and then implement an uncorruptible genuine working democracy, reorganize and restructure systems of resource allocation, and restructure and reorganize the factors and means of production in such a way that everyone is well provided for, and that our industries are as gentle on people and the environment as possible.

People, not profit. ~ It is the only way that this planet will be able to continue to sustain us, and our descendants ~

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002579714

[NNN0LHI]

12. I found the answer to that question during the 1980's

I discovered my family and I were dirt under their feet.

Don

[pinboy3niner]

13. Oh, you people!

[n2doc]

14. "Chump" "Stooge" "Useful Idiot" "Extractable" n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. I'll elaborate on my farm animal analogy.

A dairy farmer buys cows because he can sell the milk. He has to feed and care for the cows up to a certain standard because otherwise they won't produce enough milk for him to make a profit. Cows would probably prefer just to hang out in a pasture and eat grass rather than get crammed in stalls and have the milk sucked out of them by machines and keep having calves to ensure they keep producing milk, but the farmer wants to make a profit. And when they stop producing enough to justify the expense of feeding them, well, they won't be kept on the payroll any longer...

In any event, a farm isn't an animal refuge or a zoo. It exists to make money for the farmer, and the cows are the means by which that happens. Likewise, we are the livestock that produce the necessary goods and services for the 1%. They will provide us with nothing beyond what we need to stay alive and productive for them.

Moo.

[Philosoraptor]

16. and THERE'S the beef