CNN gets owned Bernie sanders break up banks

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123. Thank you for sharing that, chervilant.

I've been picking up bits and pieces of information about this elevated class of individuals and of course have read the cold statistics on their outsized share of the planet's wealth, but about ten years or so ago I caught part of a BBC late night show that was covering what life is like within their ranks. At the time I was distracted and didn't pay close enough attention -- and didn't record it, didn't take notes, get the name of the program and the date it was run -- but some of what I saw and heard was shocking, and even as I watched it, I sensed that those people would not want this information out there. I only remember parts of it, but there were scenes of a social function of some sort where they were talking amongst themselves about how rarely they ever have to interact with the "lower" people, how they have their own transportation that takes them anywhere in the world, their own communication networks, medical care, ways of shopping and vacationing, places to stay, that never bring them into contact with the rest of us. They were smug and giggly about it, so very pleased with themselves, so glad to be away from us. It was hard to believe.

When I see photos of Hill and Bill smiling in that wide eyed delighted way with Trump, Kissinger, Blankfein and other famous personages, I am reminded of those completely separate people. Just so happy to be who and what they are, happy to be of and among the privileged.

Occasionally there is a news article about specially built safe rooms in the residences of some in this set, luxuriously appointed spaces with extremely thick, impenetrable walls where they can go to be safe from whatever may be occurring outside, supplied with sufficient food, water, and whatever they would need to survive in comfort during a cataclysm in the external surroundings.

One gets the impression that they couldn't care less about the rest of humanity.

When you think of what Bernie is up against, what he is taking on, it is sobering, almost frightening. As long as there is the pretense of democracy, Hillary's campaign simply needs to do whatever it has to do to manipulate public opinion in her favor and against Bernie.

But there must be some people of conscience and means who don't choose to be part of the privileged set, who have some loyalty to the human race and other creatures who populate the planet and the planet itself. And then there are mysterious groups like Anonymous and wikileaks. So it's not all bad.