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Leopolds Ghost

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1. Good for him. Assuming "They" haven't gotten to him, lol, anyhow...look at those folks behind Romney
Tue Apr 10, 2012, 01:33 AM
Apr 2012

53%ers, imagining they have something in common with Mitt Romney purely because they have white skin. I wish there was a way to reach out to all of the 99% but it's worse than that -- on top of the folks who won't address the movement because of prejudice, you have center-left professionals who won't address it because of privilege -- we know them in real life, they are considered the mainstream of the Democratic Party now, no need to imagine that they are trolling -- they feel that a society in which the traffic moves on time and their jobs are secure is proof that the system is working -- and folks like Herman Cain who have a pure Horatio Alger attitude, imagining that America = capitalism and that there is no other goal worth aspiring to.

There's a great article in the Post from Feb about said centrist professionals (really, center-right given their unspoken creed that capitalism is the highest virtue in life) and I think I'll repost it now that I found it. Plus two creepy tidbits from otherwise positive news articles...

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