So Much for Elitists Being Out of Touch — Massachusetts Senatorial Candidate Professor Elizabeth Warren Gutted Republican Arguments (which Solely Favor Plutocrats) in Two Simple and Logically Irrefutable Populist Paragraphs — at Last, Someone Who Actually Thinks

© 2011 Peter Free

 

22 September 2011

 

 

Even Fat Cats should watch this video — it represents the train of thought that’s eventually going to flatten them, if they keep stealing America from ordinary Americans

 

I write this as a political moderate.  As someone concerned about this nation’s increasingly distorted economic and military direction.

 

The United States’ chief problem today is its inability to recognize that democratic institutions cannot possibly survive in a meaningful way, when they are completely dominated by the top 1 percent of wealth-holders.

 

Eventually, if history is a guide, the other 99 percent of the population will erupt and strip the martini-sippers of their undeserved excesses.

 

 

Why I use the word, “undeserved” — Elizabeth Warren says it well

 

Massachusetts senatorial candidate (Professor) Elizabeth Warren brilliantly articulated why excessively-retained wealth is undeserved.  The wealth that Fat Cats own cannot be made without taxpayer assistance and ordinary Americans’ labor.

 

Effectively, we’re all in this together.  No matter what the divisive and destructively-brained twits at both political extremes would like us to think.

 

Warren may come from the “elite,” but she spoke simply, persuasively, and in beer-drinking language.

 

The video segment of her talk is embedded in the following editorial by the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent.  The embedded video was taken by a spectator at one of Warren’s campaign stops.

 

 

Citation — to the article with Elizabeth Warren’s video segment

 

© 2011 Greg Sargent, Class warfare, Elizabeth Warren style, Washington Post (21 September 2011)

 

 

When extreme politics separate the engine room from the crew, the People’s ship is going to drift — rudderless — into harm’s way

 

We may not like Elizabeth Warren’s populist message.

 

But its core principle is true — a democracy and economy that cannot (inclusively) bridge its assorted socioeconomic wealth-producing components is going to fail.

 

By seeing the economic and political Whole, perhaps we can pull together enough to keep American dynamism from twisting too far in extreme directions.

 

 

Elizabeth Warren has (perhaps inadvertently) defined the American Necessity

 

The American Necessity is about accurately seeing where progress comes from and on whose backs it’s carried.

 

Seeing only some components is equivalent to being blind.