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kpete

(72,038 posts)
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 09:48 PM Jul 2012

ROMNEY Donor: The "Common" People Just "Don’t understand what’s going on."

Romney Donor Says ‘Lower Income’ People ‘Don’t Understand What’s Going On’
By Judd Legum posted from ThinkProgress Election on Jul 8, 2012 at 9:21 pm

Today, Mitt Romney is holding a series of fundraisers in the Hamptons, culminating with a huge event at the home of billionaire David Koch. The LA Time in on the scene and reporter Maeve Reston caught up with a donor on her way into one of the events.

The woman, who wouldn’t reveal her name, said the following:

I don’t think the common person is getting it…my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.


The recommended contribution for the event she was attending was $25,000.

MORE:
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/08/512645/romney-donor-says-lower-income-people-dont-understand-whats-going-on/http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-hamptons-fundraiser-20120708,0,4909639.story?track=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=56325

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Now maybe that very nice rich lady who said that the lower orders are too stupid to understand that Obama is hurting them is donating to Romney because while she's doing well, she's truly concerned about the poor and for some reason thinks he'll be better for them. That makes her pathetically dumb herself, but at least her heart would be in the right place. But I'm going to take a wild shot and say that I would guess she's just another self-centered moron who thinks that Obama is ruining everything because he's taxing everyone too much --- especially her.

Begging for pitchforks, I'm telling you.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/our-betters-fretting-in-hamptons.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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ROMNEY Donor: The "Common" People Just "Don’t understand what’s going on." (Original Post) kpete Jul 2012 OP
"Let them eat cake." sakabatou Jul 2012 #1
This woman should get 100% national attention BlueCaliDem Jul 2012 #13
"Cake." tjdanielstj Jul 2012 #43
Indeed. ErikJ Jul 2012 #94
Because no one's posted 'em yet: Adenoid_Hynkel Jul 2012 #96
if this doesn't make... handmade34 Jul 2012 #2
Sadly, it will make no difference in how people see the 1% liberal N proud Jul 2012 #5
She's not common - she's "special" aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2012 #18
it is a handmade34 Jul 2012 #29
Will it get any coverage? flamingdem Jul 2012 #23
I can see Ed covering it... handmade34 Jul 2012 #28
Just saw another post on DU that the LA Times reported this flamingdem Jul 2012 #30
The LA Times is where the story originated. The LA Times reporter got the quote from the woman Tx4obama Jul 2012 #39
Too many "common" people have been duped into believing they'll be as rich as she is deutsey Jul 2012 #54
Imagine, opening up the paper, to find your own mother, referring to use as "common". justice1 Jul 2012 #83
your mother? handmade34 Jul 2012 #93
No, it's Disneyland dwellers like you who don't have the first fucking clue BeyondGeography Jul 2012 #3
This idiot woman is who they made guilloines for. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #4
Yes, she's so much more educated than us common folk intheflow Jul 2012 #71
This is so awesome! I wish this person was given a much larger platform to express her frustrations. Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2012 #6
It reminds me of that old Star Trek episode, "The Cloud Minders" aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2012 #7
I never saw that show, but it sounds like a remake of an HG Wells story. Jackpine Radical Jul 2012 #9
In reverse, perhaps aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2012 #10
This episode ended bad. Archae Jul 2012 #24
Dr Who Had A Similar Episode TheMastersNemesis Jul 2012 #78
The nails ladies? Ah yes, BlueBloods; simply discusting. n/t wandy Jul 2012 #8
She talks to her 'help' and she knows that the common people are simply too ignorant sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #11
If it were JUST a strike, she should consider herself lucky, as this piece of film demonstrates... Volaris Jul 2012 #38
What? They don't get a Concierge Doctor like Royal Pains? hootinholler Jul 2012 #58
heh. SammyWinstonJack Jul 2012 #65
Well, in a sense PatSeg Jul 2012 #12
what she means is that the "common People" Volaris Jul 2012 #40
And as I said PatSeg Jul 2012 #46
Doesn't he though? laundry_queen Jul 2012 #50
"But Ann, they smell funny." PatSeg Jul 2012 #56
Indeed, if the common people DID grasp how the US is run kenny blankenship Jul 2012 #97
What's going on? They are SCREWING the average guy royally Raine Jul 2012 #14
I've met these people. PDJane Jul 2012 #15
"Authoritarian Personality" handmade34 Jul 2012 #31
great post thank you TeamPooka Jul 2012 #37
+1 nt laundry_queen Jul 2012 #51
Wake Up Everybody BeyondGeography Jul 2012 #16
Ask her if she understands this: 99Forever Jul 2012 #17
Wow! Condescending or what! Spazito Jul 2012 #19
Well lady, this is a republic treestar Jul 2012 #20
Yeah we do - it's massive theft on a grand scale. Initech Jul 2012 #21
I'm sending this message to everyone I know. Curtland1015 Jul 2012 #22
And whose fucking fault is that, eh? sofa king Jul 2012 #25
The fuck I don't. Wait and see lady. MichiganVote Jul 2012 #26
She probably speaks for most of them. nt limpyhobbler Jul 2012 #27
Anybody still wondering why I'm a communist? socialist_n_TN Jul 2012 #32
socialist_n_TN Diclotican Jul 2012 #59
... SammyWinstonJack Jul 2012 #66
SammyWinstonJack Diclotican Jul 2012 #70
... SammyWinstonJack Jul 2012 #102
At this point Diclotican, I'd make a united front........ socialist_n_TN Jul 2012 #103
socialist_n_TN Diclotican Jul 2012 #105
Wonder why Ann Romney declined to give her name? bwhahaha. n/t progressivebydesign Jul 2012 #33
Ann Romney is exactly who it sounded like to me JI7 Jul 2012 #36
The woman .... Tx4obama Jul 2012 #41
+1 tallahasseedem Jul 2012 #55
But the propaganda is working mountain grammy Jul 2012 #34
What's laughable and sad.... CoffeeCat Jul 2012 #45
The sooner their heads explode, the better for all of us. My tea party neighbor listens to Beck. SammyWinstonJack Jul 2012 #67
Your neighbor and my neighbor CoffeeCat Jul 2012 #92
"Common People"---- really arrogant of her young_at_heart Jul 2012 #35
i'm a lower income person with a masters' degree in a science. please enlighten me, rich lady? HiPointDem Jul 2012 #42
Move over "Joe the Plumber"... CoffeeCat Jul 2012 #44
I found this at Facebook this morning PatSeg Jul 2012 #47
no... it's wealthy delusional folks like you who need a guillotine to get it. fascisthunter Jul 2012 #48
Range Rover woman.. soccer1 Jul 2012 #49
Things didn't end well for the original Marie Antoinette. hifiguy Jul 2012 #52
Who the hell does the women think she is? These very rich people are the problem because southernyankeebelle Jul 2012 #53
Remember the great, tragic scene in Roger & Me DefenseLawyer Jul 2012 #57
We get it: YOU want to rip US off! Democrats_win Jul 2012 #60
Or to put it another way ... Ganja Ninja Jul 2012 #61
kpete Diclotican Jul 2012 #62
Great Gatsby Meets Gilligan's Island... triplepoint Jul 2012 #63
If Romney is sworn in, the common people sure as hell will "get it." n/t Orsino Jul 2012 #64
The nails ladies? smokey nj Jul 2012 #68
It's class warfare when we fight back and certainly not when the ruling elite draw the class Citizen Worker Jul 2012 #69
I'll gladly compare my education and life experience to hers any day. JDPriestly Jul 2012 #72
we are long overdue for a violent revolution frylock Jul 2012 #73
compassionate conservatism ... napkinz Jul 2012 #74
They have to tell themselves this or face the abyss. raouldukelives Jul 2012 #75
And what is up with the Zambrellis? They think THEY are our economic engine? MissMarple Jul 2012 #76
She's certainly got FlaGranny Jul 2012 #99
The election of GOP candidates proves this to be true. obxhead Jul 2012 #77
It's true I don't understand abelenkpe Jul 2012 #79
It is amazing to me, the number of people Esra Star Jul 2012 #80
Smerconish just had this quote on Matthews show. demgrrrll Jul 2012 #81
This is a very common feeling among the very rich. I have been in the music business for Lint Head Jul 2012 #82
Many of the "common people" don't understand what's going on... hughee99 Jul 2012 #84
I absolutely cannot stand conservatives anymore. Megahurtz Jul 2012 #85
I'm Starting to Wonder if she posts here fascisthunter Jul 2012 #86
Hmm the Hamptons ... YOHABLO Jul 2012 #87
Good one.... soccer1 Jul 2012 #91
This message was self-deleted by its author Dolores02 Jul 2012 #88
Range Rover lady..... soccer1 Jul 2012 #89
We feel your pain? Peaceful Protester Jul 2012 #90
This is the reason for the Estate Tax.. nt Thor_MN Jul 2012 #95
Sounds like some British aristocrat from the 1830s, explaining why the 'common people' cannot be LeftishBrit Jul 2012 #98
There are many different "its" malthaussen Jul 2012 #100
She’s right. If they did understand they wouldn’t be voting for these A-Holes. liberal N proud Jul 2012 #101
I have named her "The Snob Heard 'Round the World." Her story has some good traction this week n/t progressivebydesign Jul 2012 #104

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
13. This woman should get 100% national attention
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 10:14 PM
Jul 2012

so the mindless lemmings who support the 1% will finally see who's on their side - and it ain't the R'money crowd!

handmade34

(22,759 posts)
2. if this doesn't make...
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 09:50 PM
Jul 2012

the "common" people livid... there is something terribly wrong...

time to seriously fight back...

handmade34

(22,759 posts)
28. I can see Ed covering it...
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 11:32 PM
Jul 2012

not really news... but an outward manifestation of how we "common" people realize we are perceived...

class war?? you betcha!

the sadness is that this woman's sentiments are not one of wealth per se... but of small mindedness... and that is an illness that exists within wealthy and poor and middle all alike...

flamingdem

(39,333 posts)
30. Just saw another post on DU that the LA Times reported this
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 11:39 PM
Jul 2012

so that's a start!

Wonder if CNN will follow..

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
39. The LA Times is where the story originated. The LA Times reporter got the quote from the woman
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 02:45 AM
Jul 2012

There's a LA Times link to their article here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101739636

deutsey

(20,166 posts)
54. Too many "common" people have been duped into believing they'll be as rich as she is
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 12:11 PM
Jul 2012

So, ironically, she's right: they really don't understand how it all works.

BeyondGeography

(39,392 posts)
3. No, it's Disneyland dwellers like you who don't have the first fucking clue
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 09:50 PM
Jul 2012

But thanks for the ammo, ma'am.

intheflow

(28,515 posts)
71. Yes, she's so much more educated than us common folk
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 03:20 PM
Jul 2012

she has no need to remember the history of social uprisings. The look of surprise when her head rolls down the block will be priceless. C'est dommage!

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,509 posts)
6. This is so awesome! I wish this person was given a much larger platform to express her frustrations.
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 10:01 PM
Jul 2012

Clearly the person who has to clean her nasty ass coke full nails for a living has no fucking clue how the real world works. Baby sitters? Don't even get me started. They should be grateful they are even allowed to breathe the same air as the over privileged punk ass ungrateful brats they have to raise while this poor woman decides if today feels more like a Maserati or a Porsche kind of day............ You'll have to excuse now while I go drown myself in Grover Douchequist's bathtub.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
7. It reminds me of that old Star Trek episode, "The Cloud Minders"
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 10:03 PM
Jul 2012

The people living above the planet's surface enjoyed a life of leisure thanks to the toil of the workers mining the planet surface who lived a miserable life. The cloud dwellers felt it was their mission and destiny to call the shots and live as overlords.

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aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
10. In reverse, perhaps
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 10:12 PM
Jul 2012

If the Eloi who lived a life of leisure exploited the Morlocks and felt racially and intellectually superior to them, perhaps.

Archae

(46,368 posts)
24. This episode ended bad.
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 11:11 PM
Jul 2012

The original script had the two sides finally talking, but McCoy asks "How many children will die in the meantime?"
And Kirk had no answer for that.

In the televised version, Kirk just gave the miners gas masks.
"And they'll be good little darkies and pick all the cotton we want..." -David Gerrold

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
78. Dr Who Had A Similar Episode
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 05:13 PM
Jul 2012

I believe in the Tom Baker era Dr Who had a similar episode. In fact they had many episodes about such situations in their history.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
11. She talks to her 'help' and she knows that the common people are simply too ignorant
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 10:13 PM
Jul 2012

to vote. Lol, I know people like her, having worked in the Hamptons for several summers.

They are not the brightest, and it is always fun to watch them try to figure out the 'little people' without whom they would not be able to get into their own securitized homes. Many of them do not even know the codes to their gated homes.

If the 'little people' all went on strike, this poor woman would not survive for a day without them.

I bet she pays her 'help' off the books also. Many of them do. And I would be willing to bet that she does not pay for HC for the 'help' either. If she does, she is unique among the Hamptons crowd.

I also would not be surprised if she hires 'illegals' to do her lawn maintainance, while at the same time, railing against illegals invading the country. You cannot find a Lawn Maintenance Co. in the Hamptons, or a big Contractor, that does not hire undocumented workers.

But wealthy Repubs while utilizing cheap labor, never see the hypocrisy of their opposition to those same people being in the country.

Volaris

(10,276 posts)
38. If it were JUST a strike, she should consider herself lucky, as this piece of film demonstrates...
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 02:40 AM
Jul 2012

(WARNING NSFW)

hootinholler

(26,449 posts)
58. What? They don't get a Concierge Doctor like Royal Pains?
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 12:24 PM
Jul 2012

I would have thought HankMed to the rescue so the help can get back to work faster.

PatSeg

(47,695 posts)
12. Well, in a sense
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 10:13 PM
Jul 2012

the so-called "common people" often DON'T get it. They keep getting ripped off by the very wealthy and they still vote for republicans.

Of course, that probably isn't what she meant, though I'm not really sure what she meant. Guess that means I am common!

Volaris

(10,276 posts)
40. what she means is that the "common People"
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 02:50 AM
Jul 2012

don't understand the debt, interest-on-currency, and Monetary and Financial systems that keeps people like HER from being among the Common.

Fuck this lady, her name should be plastered across every screen in this Nation.

And the above poster is right, this is why guillotines were invented. And the ONLY reason it isn't still being used is because the IMPARTIAL, cool-headed Justice system that was INVENTED in America forbids their use. I bet she's grateful for that bit of "Common&quot sense), though isn't she? The Bitch.

PatSeg

(47,695 posts)
46. And as I said
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 10:05 AM
Jul 2012

the people she may consider "common" often do NOT get it, which is evidenced by the fact that they keep voting for people who keep them oppressed, sick, under educated, uninformed, etc.

The woman is like a character out of a Dickens novel. Hard to believe someone is so clueless to actually say something like that out loud, though I have no doubt people like her think it all the time. I can see it in Romney's eyes whenever he has to mix it up with the masses. He almost looks like he's in pain at times.

PatSeg

(47,695 posts)
56. "But Ann, they smell funny."
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 12:16 PM
Jul 2012
"And they expected me to actually sit down and eat cookies with them."





"Think I'm going to be sick!"

kenny blankenship

(15,689 posts)
97. Indeed, if the common people DID grasp how the US is run
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 09:59 PM
Jul 2012

people like her wouldn't dare return from their tax havens in the Caribbean isles. They'd be running to save their filthy hides, not their loot. And unless they were rich enough to purchase Swiss citizenship preemptively, they would all live in perpetual fear of the day the US Marines hit their beaches to bring them and their bank accounts to justice.

PDJane

(10,103 posts)
15. I've met these people.
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 10:23 PM
Jul 2012

Most of them are too damn dumb to do anything but regurgitate their college professors and follow along like good little sheep. Self-absorbed and greedy, for the most part. They need a good swift kick into their own little corner of the world, where they can tell each other how wonderful they are.

If they actually had to live the lives of normal people, they'd be the first to vote for increases in the minimum wage, universal health care, and regulations on big business.

Disgusting.

handmade34

(22,759 posts)
31. "Authoritarian Personality"
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 11:39 PM
Jul 2012
http://www.simplypsychology.org/authoritarian-personality.html


"Those with an authoritarian personality tended to be:

• Hostile to those who are of inferior status, but obedient of people with high status
• Fairly rigid in their opinions and beliefs
• Conventional, upholding traditional values
Adorno concluded that people with authoritarian personalities where likely to categories people into “us” and “them” groups, seeing their own group as superior. Therefore, the study indicated that individuals with a very strict upbringing by critical and harsh parents were most likely to develop an authoritarian personality...."

Spazito

(50,556 posts)
19. Wow! Condescending or what!
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 10:48 PM
Jul 2012

I could see either of the Romneys saying exactly what this woman has said. It IS how they look at anyone who is not of their 'ilk'.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
20. Well lady, this is a republic
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 10:52 PM
Jul 2012

Not an aristocracy. Maybe you can move to England. Well that is no longer literally an aristocracy.

Curtland1015

(4,404 posts)
22. I'm sending this message to everyone I know.
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 11:04 PM
Jul 2012

Everyone needs to know what these people really think of us.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
25. And whose fucking fault is that, eh?
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 11:14 PM
Jul 2012

Who made sure low income kids struggle with nutrition, go to shitty schools with underpaid teachers, and are fed a steady diet of fear and bullshit from the bought media?

Whose goddamned idea was that? Do we get to blame those people? Do we get to restrict their right to vote? Do we get to hunt them like animals and jail or deport them if they're found to be breaking the law?

Do they have papers?

Diclotican

(5,095 posts)
59. socialist_n_TN
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 12:28 PM
Jul 2012

socialist_n_TN

Not an Communist - but dam close - a social-democrat, on the left political speaking. And I think I got influenced by my late fosterfather who defently was on the left political speaking (even though he allways was member of the social democratic party in Norway)

Diclotican

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)
103. At this point Diclotican, I'd make a united front........
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:08 AM
Jul 2012

with the Devil himself. That seems to be the only way we're going to change the paradigm in the world.

Diclotican

(5,095 posts)
105. socialist_n_TN
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 01:45 PM
Jul 2012

socialist_n_TN

It looks more and more like we have to stick togheter, rather than to be swallowed one by one by the other side.... That be communists, socialist, or socialdemocrats...

We need to change the paragim of the world... Or else we are into a lot of turbulence for a long, long time

Diclotican

mountain grammy

(26,663 posts)
34. But the propaganda is working
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 12:13 AM
Jul 2012

and many of the common folk (Bill's people) do get it. Do you think a teabagger would "get it" if it heard this woman's remarks? Of course, rush won't say it and it won't appear on fox, so chances are the teabagger will never see it anyway.

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
45. What's laughable and sad....
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 09:35 AM
Jul 2012

...is that the tea party folks ARE commoners. In the eyes of the Koch Brothers, right-wing radio blowhards and also Mitt Romney--the tea-party folk are just ignorant fools who will unwittingly carry the talking points for the rich.

I think the biggest bamboozle ever--is how the top one percent has convinced middle and lower-class folk to be happy mouthpieces for legislation, deregulation and policies that benefit only the uber rich.

It's simply mind blowing. And if you try to talk some sense into these tea party people (and believe me, I have tried) they
will rip you a new one for even suggesting that billionaires and millionaires need to pay their fair share.

I once had a debate--that turned into a screaming match--with a tea partier. Two weeks after the housing market imploded, he insisted that this economic disaster happened because the banking industry was too regulated. Those talking points didn't come from his own brain. Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity injected them into his oh-so-open mind. How can these tea partiers not see that they are being played, and used?

When the truth about what is really happening in our country emerges--it will be these tea partiers who will be out in the streets protesting like rabid weasels. We "get" what is happening. They're so blinded by Glenn Beck that they can't even see what's happening. When they figure out that they've been pawns in the destruction of our democracy--their heads will explode. It's not going to be pretty.

YAY! Let's further deregulate the banks!! Because this crazy, deregulated environment that allows credit-default swaps, mortgaged backed securities that are worthless junk and billion-dollar bailouts is just tooooo darn stifling for these banks!! We need more of this...riiiiiiiight.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
67. The sooner their heads explode, the better for all of us. My tea party neighbor listens to Beck.
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 02:36 PM
Jul 2012

He thinks Beck is a good and truthful man.....

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
92. Your neighbor and my neighbor
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 07:47 PM
Jul 2012

Should go bowling. I can always tell when Beck's hair is on fire. My neighbor becomes obsessed with Obama's socialist-Marxist ways, and you can just tell that he's spent a great deal of spare time buying more gold and vacuum-sealed lasagnas and beef stroganoff.

young_at_heart

(3,774 posts)
35. "Common People"---- really arrogant of her
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 12:25 AM
Jul 2012

She said this with such ease---just rolled off her tongue without thought. Maybe she needs a course in manners and critical thinking!

 

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)
42. i'm a lower income person with a masters' degree in a science. please enlighten me, rich lady?
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 02:54 AM
Jul 2012

what the fuck *is* going on that you have $25K to hand out to politicians without missing a beat?

what did *you* do that makes you so fucking smart?

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
44. Move over "Joe the Plumber"...
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 09:26 AM
Jul 2012

Debbie the Debutante is making her way toward the spotlight.

Oh how I wish this pseudo-elitist viper had made these comments on camera. She encapsulates what
Romney is all about.

I mean seriously...a fundraiser in the Hamptons. LOL! With the Koch Brothers in attendance. LOL!!!

Romney makes the case that Obama has failed middle-class Americans.

I'll bet you $100 that Mitt Romney has NEVER had a conversation with a middle-class American, except on the campaign trail.

"Look honey! A middle-class American in the wild! When can we get back on our luxury campaign bus...flannel gives me hives."

soccer1

(343 posts)
49. Range Rover woman..
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 11:40 AM
Jul 2012

Last edited Mon Jul 9, 2012, 06:54 PM - Edit history (1)

apparently believes that if Mitt could only connect to the uneducated and the lower income folks, he'd be able to convince them of why Obama is bad for them and educate them on how the systems work and the impact it has on their lives. Of course, after being "enlightened" they would vote for Mitt. No wonder she wouldn't give her name...her "help" might quit in protest. Don't think Mensa will be recruiting her any time soon. I would love to hear her explanation of "how the systems work" and the impact it has on lower income and uneducated people.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
52. Things didn't end well for the original Marie Antoinette.
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 11:56 AM
Jul 2012

They won't end well for this latest version either. Time to get out the tumbrels and the National Razor.

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
53. Who the hell does the women think she is? These very rich people are the problem because
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 12:08 PM
Jul 2012

they think they are entitled. She maybe some little lower middle class beauty who hooked up her wagon to some rich guy. You know like the Countess from NY on the Housewife show who thinks putting Countess in front of your name makes you some royal. Well people in the lower middle class are not stupid as they think. We know damn well whats going on. While they are sitting there eating their cake a revolt might help wake them up.

 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
57. Remember the great, tragic scene in Roger & Me
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 12:24 PM
Jul 2012

After showing us what a decimated, dying city Flint had become, he took his camera to a local country club where the local rich folk went on and on about how great everything was, capped off with a rich old lady on the golf course who said that the unemployed don't really want to work anyway.

Ganja Ninja

(15,953 posts)
61. Or to put it another way ...
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 12:51 PM
Jul 2012

You can fool some of the peasants all of the time and you can fool all of the peasants some of the time. But you can rob the peasants anytime because they're peasants. That's what they're there for, to maintain the rich.

Diclotican

(5,095 posts)
62. kpete
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 01:25 PM
Jul 2012

kpete

At least they are honest about it - they honesty do believe, (and have for many decades) that the common man and woman are not educated enough to be able to understand what is happing - and that we in their mind, do not deserve to get a vote, because we are not educated enough to understand...

But at one time - she would not be able to vote herself - in fact going less than one hundred years back in the past, she would have no right over her own body, no less able to put a vote - or to have an opinion on her own - it was the job of her man, or her father, and brother to have an opinion, on her behalf... And hopefully marry her to another wealthy family so she would breed another generations of privileged children - men for the business - and girls for be married off to others...

But they do forget the fact, that not many decades ago,they was scared about the "red scare" coming from USSR.. And they kept their ideas for them self, to after USSR broke down in 1991.. After that, it have been drip-drip attitude to the whole seas of disdain for the commons you look at today - They either do not care, or have no clue about the facts, who ended in the revolutions, who toppled the great empires in Russia - the empires of Austria-Hungarian - and the kingdom of France in the 1700s... They tend to forget, that if enough "commons" is tired about how they are treated, it could end in revolutions, one way or another..

But then again - they do the same fault, that everyone who believe they are better than the rest do - goes to a limit where everyone who able to look, is understanding what is happening. And then they discover that the "commons" are not just friendly baby sitters - but also an angry mob who could make them run for their life....

And guess - if they do not have had the "commons" to do their job, baby sit their children, cocking their food, and make their bed, they would have to do it them self - and then suddenly be "common" themself...

But then again - this is what the "elite" have always have spoken about the commons - even 2000 year ago - in writing no less, the roman elite was writing about the commons as beast who had to be kept in shackles - so they do not try to eat their masters... So this is Not exactly news for everyone who have studied history - in one way or another...

Diclotican

 

triplepoint

(431 posts)
63. Great Gatsby Meets Gilligan's Island...
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 02:21 PM
Jul 2012


Lovey: "I don't know how we're going to explain to our friends that we
spent several years with people who aren't even in the social
register."





smokey nj

(43,853 posts)
68. The nails ladies?
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 02:50 PM
Jul 2012

Anyone else find it funny that this wealthy, "well-educated" person couldn't come up with the word manicurist?

Citizen Worker

(1,785 posts)
69. It's class warfare when we fight back and certainly not when the ruling elite draw the class
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 02:51 PM
Jul 2012

boundary lines.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
72. I'll gladly compare my education and life experience to hers any day.
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 03:53 PM
Jul 2012

We'll see who is poorly educated.

That goes for a lot of Democrats who are better educated than many Republicans. As for life-experience, that's what common people have in abundance.

This woman needs to leave her protected environment and get real.

raouldukelives

(5,178 posts)
75. They have to tell themselves this or face the abyss.
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 05:08 PM
Jul 2012

They have gone too far. They know it but are afraid to look back at the trail of destruction they have left for future generations. Better to shred what is left of the social safety net now before the effects of climate change run up the tab tremendously. Before they might have to start helping foot the bill for the hell on earth they have created.

MissMarple

(9,656 posts)
76. And what is up with the Zambrellis? They think THEY are our economic engine?
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 05:08 PM
Jul 2012

Also from Reston's article:

"Sharon Zambrelli voted for Obama in 2008 but has been disappointed with his handling of the economy and leadership style. "I was very disenchanted with the political process and he gave me hope," she said, but ultimately: "He's just a politician," she said, an "emperor with no clothes."

The Zambrellis scoffed at attempts by the Democrats -- who mocked Romney in an ad Sunday as "great for oil billionaires, bad for the middle class" -- to wage class warfare. "Would you like to hear about the fundraisers I went to for him?" Sharon Zambrelli said of Obama. "Do you have an hour? ... All the ones in the city -- it was all of Wall Street."

"It's not helping the economy to pit the people who are the engine of the economy against the people who rely on that engine," Michael Zambrelli said as the couple waited in their SUV for clearance into the Creeks shortly after the candidate's motorcade flew by and entered the pine-tree lined estate. "He's basically been biting the hand that fed him in '08. ... I would bet 25% of the people here were supporters of Obama in '08. And they're here now.""

It is no wonder that these people are confused. They really believe the GOP political hype about the "job creator". How...ignorant. Didn't they go to college?

FlaGranny

(8,361 posts)
99. She's certainly got
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 07:54 AM
Jul 2012

a screwed up message. Working, productive people are the engines of the economy, definitely not Wall Street. Poor, deluded woman.

Edit: Of course, to her, "the economy" means making money, not producing anything of value (except for more money for people like her).

abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)
79. It's true I don't understand
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 05:27 PM
Jul 2012

How we can afford to give profitable multinational corporations subsidies while simultaneously claiming we don't have enough money to fund social programs. Will the corporations go without needed healthcare or starve if we cut subsidies like the people forced to go without due to cutbacks in social programs?

How can we afford to spend more than every other nation on defense while simultaneously claiming we don't have enough money to fund social programs? Will the MIC collapse if we care for our own citizens?

How can we willfully let our infrastructure rot and decay when millions of people rely on that infrastructure and more when millions of workers are idle looking for work? Wouldn't hiring those idle workers benefit our society by rebuilding our infrastructure, taking pressure off of strained social programs and improving the economy?

How does weakening civil rights help our economy or improve our society? Is it the mark of an advanced culture taking away rights for women and minorities? Cause that would be a new one for me.

How does shipping good paying jobs here in America to countries where workers have fewer rights, where corporations don't have to care about the environment help the local economy here?

Think she can help me understand? Do I need a doctorate? I only have a graduate degree....



Esra Star

(2,167 posts)
80. It is amazing to me, the number of people
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 05:35 PM
Jul 2012

who think that the words "education" and "indoctrination" are interchangable.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
82. This is a very common feeling among the very rich. I have been in the music business for
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 05:58 PM
Jul 2012

decades. As a union AFM working musician I have rubbed elbows with many extremely rich and powerful people. I have heard these comments more times than I can count. They are not all like this but most feel privileged. They feel they can get away with just about anything and deserve to be pampered because they are better than "common people". In society there is good and bad but throw into the mix being rich and the greed, privilege and condescending attitude shows up in spades.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
84. Many of the "common people" don't understand what's going on...
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 06:24 PM
Jul 2012

That's what the repukes are counting on. It's their "base".

Megahurtz

(7,046 posts)
85. I absolutely cannot stand conservatives anymore.
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 06:26 PM
Jul 2012

I see them on other forums shooting their mouths off at the unemployed, people who got laid off from their jobs by no fault of their own. They say to them "better support yourself instead of relying on freebies" and they cheer and celebrate that Pennsylvania cut their cash benefits and cut workers to minimum wage. They keep calling people losers for losing their jobs and say they are soaking off the system. God I just hate these people now, I've never been so mad at stupid conservatives before. I sincerely hope they lose every last penny that they have so they can get a taste of their own medicine.

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
87. Hmm the Hamptons ...
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 07:11 PM
Jul 2012

we need a nice big hurricane to come along and wipe that part of Long Island of the map. Sort of like a colonic cleanse.

Response to kpete (Original post)

soccer1

(343 posts)
89. Range Rover lady.....
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 07:30 PM
Jul 2012

I almost feel sorry for her and others like her. I see them as "wanna be royalty". The airs that people like this put on make them look absolutely ridiculous. Their noses are so far in the stratosphere they suffer from oxygen deprivation, no doubt the reason for the asinine comments they make about what's best for the American "peasants" and society at large. No doubt some of the politicians they donate to see them as ridiculous. However, Romney and his wife can probably relate to them. Maybe Mitt and Ann are "wanna be royals". Maybe.....

LeftishBrit

(41,212 posts)
98. Sounds like some British aristocrat from the 1830s, explaining why the 'common people' cannot be
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 04:31 AM
Jul 2012

trusted to vote.

malthaussen

(17,230 posts)
100. There are many different "its"
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 08:53 AM
Jul 2012

We common folk don't get hers, and it's sure-enough obvious she doesn't get ours.

-- Mal

liberal N proud

(60,349 posts)
101. She’s right. If they did understand they wouldn’t be voting for these A-Holes.
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 09:23 AM
Jul 2012

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I know the 1% doesn't equal 47%, so why do people still vote in their own worst interest?



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