Melting Pot, My Ass....The Separation of the Classes is *By Far* Our Biggest Problem as a Nation....

[Junkdrawer]

Mitt Romney is the PERFECT representative of his class. Born into wealth with a profound sense of entitlement, he forms (or probably more accurately, figureheads) a company which blithely destroys the lives of the classes beneath him. And he has next to no awareness of the pain he inflicts - all he knows is that he NEEDS to do these things to maintain his position in HIS class.

I despise war. Any sane person does. But, unlike the made-for-TV War on Terror, WWII was a very real existential threat to the nation. People from ALL classes pulled together and rubbed shoulders. They had to. Class distinctions were not destroyed, but for a while, they were blurred. So Mitt's dad, like so many of his generation, had a very different view of the classes "beneath" him.

I watched this nation as we've moved from the "George Romney"s to the "Mitt Romney"s. Every chart on wealth distribution will tell you the result. We've allowed a new, privileged, predatory aristocracy to form. And it is tearing America apart at the seams.

[Bluenorthwest]

1. George was an idiot and he did not serve in WW2 at all.

So not sure why you think he was some egalitarian expamle. Like the rest of his family line before and after, George refused to serve this nation, even during WW2.

[Ikonoklast]

2. The Wealthy Class can almost totally isolate their lives from the Untermensch now.

They don't have to live anywhere near them, go to the same schools, worship at the same places, eat where they eat, work at jobs like they do, serve their country in any way except that to line the pockets of others just like them, or allow their children to marry outside of their class, unless they see the union as a step up for their progeny.

The time is long passed that this country is one of a shared experience, or sacrifice.