America's Idiot Rich [View all]

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From Salon.com.

The 1 percent is complaining louder than ever. There can be no reasoning with people this irrational

Here’s a brief list of insane things that are apparently common knowledge among the billionaire class:

That President Obama and the Democratic Party have treated wealthy finance industry titans maliciously and unfairly.

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That poor people, and not the finance industry, are responsible for the financial crisis and subsequent recession.

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That the ultra-wealthy in general, and finance industry executives in particular, are the victims of widespread prejudice akin to that faced by ethnic minorities.

There can be no reasoning with people this irrational. Any attempt to do so will fail, as Barack Obama, whose main goal is to maintain, not upend, the system that made these people so disgustingly wealthy, is learning. It’s growing harder and harder to pretend that the fantastically wealthy have a sophisticated understanding of politics — or math, or economics, or cause-and-effect.