We’ve been hearing a lot about the evils of the “top one percent” lately as protests against the wealthy are occurring in numerous American cities. I think Anthony Gregory has a better handle on who the real bad guys are, as evidenced by the quote below:
I sure wish the “top one percent” hadn’t slaughtered thousands of innocents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, executed an American without trial, tortured a whistleblowing hero, brutalized peaceful prisoners, ramped up the murderous drug violence in Mexico, and made molestation national policy at the airports. Oh, wait. . . that’s the guy that we’re supposed to have “protect” us from the “top one percent.”
If the protesters could begin to focus in on the real culprits–the politicians who grant monopoly privileges and special favors to their cronies, i.e., the ones protecting those from whom the protesters demand protection–there’s quite a bit of common ground that could be capitalized on (hee hee) in an anti-corporatist coalition.
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