The Atlantic: Mitt Romney's 'Them' Problem

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3. That, right there, is the real heart of the matter.

Mittens doesn't think of us - the vast majority of ordinary people - as having anything in particular to do with him, except as a means to getting him elected. We aren't even on his radar otherwise. We are "them" when he's campaigning and nonexistent when he isn't. As alien and essentially irrelevant beings we can only ever be "them" to him.

It's become abundantly obvious that he really and truly does not care. When he said "It's not my job to worry about those people" he meant it. He doesn't think it's his job to worry about, care about, or do anything for, anybody other than the very rich. And that's such a foreign concept to him that he doesn't even know how to hide the fact that he doesn't care.