What a big Romney donor said tonight about ''common people''

[ljm2002]

30. "my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies -- everybody who's got the right to vote"...

...and again, there you have it: their chagrin when they realize that their nanny actually has the right to vote.

Oh, the horror!

Of course they're trying to take that away too. They really don't get it: take away the sense of active participation in the system, and people will drop out of it entirely. When people don't have a stake in it, they have no reason to try and preserve it. Yet their filthy riches are predicated on maintaining the system.

$75K to meet Romney and have his ear for a few minutes. That's what she's talking about here -- that's "how it works", and that's what we should understand and aspire to if we want to be more like "our betters".

Oh well, history is full of examples of the high and mighty being brought down. It is inevitable when the system becomes too unfair, too hard on the masses -- the "common people". We're getting there.

So far the elites have been quite successful at getting us to fight with one another and leave them alone. But people are becoming aware of how corrupt the system is.

What is needed now is for us common people to see our common interests and pursue them together as a united force. That is the trick, isn't it? Unfortunately, history is also full of populist movements that are mean-spirited and divisive, and revolutions that devolve into anarchy or worse.

Here's hoping we are able to devise new and better systems. The ones we have now are rotten to the core, and are due to collapse under their own weight. When that happens, no one is safe.