Exactly How Stupid Are the Obscenely Wealthy? [View All]

[Demeter]

First a definition: the Obscenely Wealthy (OW) are those who have accumulated (by quasi-legal versions of misappropriation of community and personal property, if not outright criminal methods) more cash than even their over-indulged and profligate grandchildren can get through. Not a tremendous number of people, but powerful in their own ways. They put Dubya in power, so as to be clear whom I am discussing.

But in putting Dubya in power, in declaring an open state of Class War, did the OW forget the lessons of the French Revolution? Did they think that they could buy loyalty forever, and forget that it's only rented, paycheck to paycheck?

Are they ready to reap their own personal whirlwind? Because that's where we are heading, and at an accelerated rate. It's become a matter of them, or us, and frankly, even with bare hands, we outnumber them. Iraq will look like a picnic when their personal comeuppance arrives.

So, just how stupid are the OW? Will they see the brink in time, or go hurtling off into ancient history? Will they sue for peace, or find it only in the grave?

This is the Apocalypse they ought to be contemplating.