Do you hate all rich people?

[woo me with science]

68. This is clearly the corporate talking point of the week.

So many threads about "hate." Hate, hate, hate.

HATRED of Obama. HATRED of other corporate politicians like Hillary Clinton. HATRED of rich people.

But never, ever, ever any mention of POLICIES. It is as though the billions of corporate dollars flooding Washington and driving POLICY direction in both parties don't even exist. There is never any mention of the funneling of money from the lower classes to the top One Percent as a result of the POLICIES these billions purchase.

Never any mention whatsoever of the fact that the wealth of the top one percent has doubled since Obama took office. Never any mention that even the milquetoast Dodd-Frank regulations were attacked and many of them gutted by bipartisan vote and with Obama's signature earlier this year. Never any mention that the banks still are not being held accountable. And never any mention that our Democratic President is seeking more austerity and cuts in Social Security, and is deliberately hiding and seeking to fast-track what will probably be the most predatory, devastating free trade agreement in US history. And never any mention of the systemic problem, the corporate structure and the corporate contributions that explain it all, in both parties.

Never any mention of the millions driven into poverty as a result of corporate POLICIES purchased by billionaires. Never any acknowledgement of the millions foreclosed upon and struggling to afford food, shelter, and medicine. Never any acknowledgement that child poverty in the US now falls just above that in Romania, and inequality continues to skyrocket. Never any mention of the millions of Americans who now live in a surveillance state and are watching their futures being traded away.

No, the corporatists express shock and dismay that it's just pathological HATRED, out of the blue, and so very concerning. It must be some weird personality issue....not principled opposition to government corruption or predatory POLICIES. No, we're to believe that it's just some bizarre, mass psychological eruption of HATRED, like a seizure, arising from who knows where, for who knows what reason.

So manipulative, so predictable, and so pathetic.