The Self-PleasuringFulfillment of the Siege Mentality
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Steven M. suggests that the One Per Cent are embattled in their own minds (even though any objective measure shows that they are completely in control of everything). A nugget (emphasis in the original):
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The rich want to believe that they’re under siege, too. That would make them heroes just for continuing to show up at their offices, and for giving a few people jobs. If the rich are under siege, then whatever they want government to do to the have-nots — cut the social safety net, permanently refuse to raise the minimum wage, transfer even more of the tax burden to the 99% — is justified, because those people are trying to harm them. That makes the millions the rich contribute to pro-plutocracy, pro-inequality politicians the only reasonable response: What? We’re supposed to have a social contract? With these savages who want us dead?
Follow the link, if only to see the title of his post. It is a gem.
Also, see this post, which offers additional support to his thesis.