Why Mitt Romney does not "get it", and why he never will:

[riqster]

People need to know this about Romney and Ryan, this year’s Bull Elephants: they are both rich men; born rich infants, raised as rich boys, grew up with their paths greased by wealth and privilege, and act today as one might expect them to act, given the lavish amounts of money available to them both. (Yes, Ryan, too, for all that the media can’t tear themselves away from Mitt’s millions long enough to look at the Ryan family fortunes.) They are privileged and have always been so: indeed, they know nothing else.

Neither man knows what it is like to have to choose between food or shelter; heat or medicine; or to be forced to live without even the basics. Neither knows what it is like to live paycheck-to-paycheck, nor have they had to make horrible sacrifices and compromises to keep a job that they loathe, but is all that stands between their family and starvation. Neither “gets” the working class, much less the working poor, even less so the unemployed or unemployable....

(More at the link)


http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/spoiled-rich-boys-oftentimes-grow-into-entitled-men/

[Jim__]

1. Yup - both of 'em - rich men's sons. They don't have a clue.

[rustydog]

2. Bullshit! In college, Willard and Ann had to choose between cashing out Microsoft or GM stock

in order to purchase more champagne for baths in their 65.00 a month basement apt...poor, poor Romneys

[immoderate]

3. I submit that Romney's character flaws do not stem from being rich.

First, there are poor people that believe the same stupid shit.

And then, there are rich Americans who were progressive, Roosevelts, Kennedys, and even Rockefellers (not the most progressive, but really, really rich!)

I think the tendency toward "greedy" over "altruistic" is congenital, but can be influenced either way during human development. There is no gene for being rich, but there are anatomic differences that correlate with the lib vs. con disparities. Note: I am not discounting developmental differences that may discount or override organic structure.

--imm

[riqster]

4. That is covered during the full post at the link

People can choose whether or not to live in a bubble. Both of these men chose to do so.

[immoderate]

5. Whoops! You caught me.

I didn't go to the link.

Thanks.

--imm

[riqster]

6. No worries

I always feel like it's self-aggrandizing to duplicate a long blog post on DU, so I usually put the link and a summary or a partial quote.

[former-republican]

7. You guys don't know nothing

They had to eat their dinner off an ironing board.