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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Hedges: Candidates "Forced to Spend Majority of Time With ONE Group - The Wealthy"
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/23/chris-hayes-romney-tapes-reveal-plutocracy-just-whining-about-everythingChris Hayes: Romney tapes reveal plutocracy just whining about everything
By Megan Carpentier
Sunday, September 23, 2012 17:41 EDT
This is what plutocracy looks like, Chris Hayes told his audience on Sunday after viewing the now-infamous Romney 47% tapes. The first thing that jumps out is that a lot of the question (asked of Romney) are really inane.
The folks in the room all but advise Romney to tour around the country reading passages from Ayn Rand novels out loud as his campaign rallies and hectoring the idiotic masses to bow before their obvious superior, Hayes said by way of characterizing the advice Romney got from his $50,000-a-plate donors. Romney, who is many things but not a total fool, gently explains that probably is not the best way to go about attempting to win over the Obama voters he needs to be elected, Hayes added.
Almost none of the advice Romney gets during the tape is very good. Some of it is terrible, Hayes said, but thats not the interesting part. The interesting part, he explained, is that Unlike the millions of other political junkies and backseat drivers, this small coterie of folks by sole virtue of their wealth, gets to impose their invaluable insights on the actual candidate.
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And yet despite the fact that Obama has managed a recovery that has been exceptionally good to them, Hayes said, Wall Street is incensed that anyone would call them fatcats or assign new financial regulations. He added, In almost every way conceivable, they inhabit an alternate universe. And everyones pretty frank about that.
Hayes said that the tape reveals one of the biggest problem with the amount of money thats required to be in politics in this day and age: Its not that lots of money can buy elections, though sometimes thats true. Its not that campaign contributions function as a quid pro quo, chits to be cashed in when legislation is being considered though thats also often true. Its that every single person running for high office in America is forced to spend the vast majority of their time around one group of people, and one group only: wealthy people. Thats who they talk to and listen to all day long, day in and day out, every day for months and years and decades. It has an incredible warping effect.
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Chris Hedges: Candidates "Forced to Spend Majority of Time With ONE Group - The Wealthy" (Original Post)
Hissyspit
Sep 2012
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orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)1. Forced to be a misanthrope? Amount required ? Who
sets the bar, and who pays the cost, we (99%) not the people their " Forced " to ingratiate themselves with.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. Du rec. Nt