Thumbs up as Rudy exits the hospital after receiving rare treatments after weeks of running around trying to steal a free and fair election, wiping his snotty handkerchief all over his hands and face and shaking hands with Republican co-conspirators. Meanwhile tens of millions of Americans sat through the loneliest Thanksgiving of our lives as we sacrificed travel and gathering to eat stuffing with our loved ones over video chat.
We’ve seen this all before. After months of denying the very real virus, Trump got flown in our Marine One helicopter at our expense to the nation’s best hospital to receive literally $Millions worth of rare and experimental therapeutics, just so he could put the Secret Service in mortal peril by throwing himself a little victory parade before flying back to the White House to make a campaign video while we all stood in the line at the grocery store in a mask waiting to buy our rations of rice and toilet paper.
Why should the elites get better health care than the rest of us for something they have treated as a hoax from the very beginning?
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Of course you are right. I grew up in medium size city but it had one of the biggest high schools in the state. Our basketball team did not have anywhere near the best players. The boy who ran the mile was not the best in the school and the quarterback was not the best quarterback available. We were told “its not just about winning and losing its also about training the leaders of tomorrow.”
The sons and the daughters of the elite were assumed to be the “leaders of tomorrow.” When I went to the 35th anniversary of my High School class the Vietnam Veterans were asked to stand up. I refused to stand but the others did and I noticed something very clear. None of the “leaders of tomorrow” had went to Vietnam. Elitism has been around my whole life. It was very prevalent in my home town and it is now even more disgusting.
It’s pretty much the way it’s always been since the beginning of civilization, sadly. Perhaps this is why Jesus said that the first will be last and the last will be first – it’s the poor folk who are getting into Heaven (ahead of the rest if Universalism is to be believed). Maybe the elites just go to the outer darkness. Hmm. As far as I’m concerned, even if there is no hearafter, it still stands that the common people are actually the ones with SOULS while these smug elites have essentially sold their souls for wealth and power. I honestly think of them as a little less human – burning away their ability to feel love, compassion or decency and therefore they are poorer than the rest of us in the most dire way.
That’s not to say that all rich people are shit, though. There are a few that haven’t completely sold themselves (they tend to be those who could be, but refuse to be billionaires because they actually give away enough of the money they / their intellectual properties happen to make to charity that they bump themselves out of the billionaire-bracket. There was a meme I saw recently citing Dolly Parton in this regard). But yeah… they that chose to be elites… I think they have diminished souls and so I tend to console myself that me and my own are actually richer.