Others have noted the story that John King told about his family. I strongly
agree that very, very few Americans like to admit it when we are in trouble,
both men and women. Most of them will suffer through poverty, worries about
being able to pay the rent and other personal crises. Romney is outside and
above the hard-scrabble reality of most peoples' lives. No one hands us big
stacks of money on a plate, though we'd love it if they would. When things are
tough many Americans tend to become quiet, very focused and very, very worried.
They don't feel "entitled" and they don't feel like "victims". They are too
worried to indulge themselves in such fantasies.
I guess when you live in a big house on a hill, oh sorry, on three or four
houses on hills or lakes, the facts of many Americans' lives are a kind of
never-never Land. Never been there, never will be there and never cared about
those who were.
I'm afraid that it is official now: Mitt Romney truly is an elitist
dumbass. Money can buy a lot of things, for example a really shiny GOP
Nomination, but it can't buy you the respect and love of the American
people.
As Clint Eastwood explained: "I
figure if somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and
say something, they're gonna have to take what they get."
Arthur
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