The Warren Warning
The Other 'Dead Broke' Democrat
By Mark Alexander
PatriotPost.us
“Be not intimidated … nor suffer yourselves to be
wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of
politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are
often used, are but three different names for
hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.” –John Adams
(1765)
The most despised political constituents in
America are rich liberals, the self-anointed
“intelligentsia” who lord over the Leftist
proletariat, and are tolerated only for the graft
they dispense to all manner of
liberal causes and campaigns.
Though they imagine themselves held in high esteem
by the recipients of their largess, they are utterly
loathed by the populist
99
Percenter Demo-Party base. Of course, they are
equally reviled by
conservatives, who object to their smugness and
their abject hypocrisy among other traits.
If there is one generalization that approaches a
universal truth about the
Left
Elite, it is that they are
chronic hypocrites. And there is no better
example of this than
B.
Obama, who constantly rebukes “the rich,” “the
wealthy,” “millionaires,” “fat cats,” ad infinitum,
all in the name of “redistributive change,” while he
basks in the profligate lifestyle of the most
rich
and famous.
For example, recall if you will Obama’s incessant
vilification of “fat
cats in their corporate jets.” Despite a slew of
policy meltdowns, both domestic and foreign, Obama
spends most of his waking hours jet-setting around
the countryside for political stump speeches and
fundraisers. Indeed, even the liberal Washington
Post has taken notice, criticizing Obama for
attending more than 400 fundraisers since taking
office – nearly double the amount attended by George
W. Bush at this stage of his presidency.
Thus, Obama is racking up hours on the most
expensive luxury jet on the planet in order to hang
with his Left Elite benefactors – all at taxpayers
expense. And when he’s not flying off to hobnob with
one percenters in places like the Hamptons last
week, he’s off on vacations at wealthy playgrounds
like Martha’s Vineyard, or taking his entourage on
$100 million “family” trips to Africa.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, “Suppose you were a
liberal, and suppose you were a hypocrite. But I
repeat myself.”
Fact is, most rich liberals are “upstairs people” –
the Dukes, Earls and Barons of Downton Abbey, Lords
pretending to identify with Commoners, but washing
their hands twice after contact with any of them.
They only drop down from their exclusive clubs and
gated communities to toss larded pork at the masses
in order to ensure that the commissars who do their
bidding will protect their estates.
Of course, the 99 percenters suspend their deeply
held
prejudicial classist convictions when rich
liberals are on ballots. They tolerate them in order
to form Faustian bargains necessary to advance their
statist “dependency” agenda.
Thus, while the nation languishes through the sixth
year of
economic stagnation, the fulfillment of Obama’s
promise of “fundamentally
transforming the United States of America,” and
as the population numbers of his urban
poverty plantations set new records, there is
also another record set under his watch.
There are now 268 millionaires in Congress, and as
you might have surmised the net worth of Democrats
exceeds the net worth of Republicans…
But I digress.
Like most rich liberals, those with presidential
aspirations make every effort to cast their identity
as card-carrying proletariats, who are thoroughly in
touch with the “struggling middle classes.”
The most ridiculous example of this charade was
Hillary Clinton’s recent effort to portray herself
as “dead
broke,” when in fact she and her serial
sex-offender husband converted their White House
tenure into wealth that now ranks them among the
tiniest fraction of the richest One-Percenters.
Now, it appears Hillary has an equally disingenuous
contender for the 2016 Democrat presidential
nomination who may well send her packing in the
primary: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
So, just who is Elizabeth Warren?
Well, for starters, she’s another limo-liberal
hypocrite. Like Clinton, she recently attempted to
deceive her supporters into believing what she
isn’t: “I realize there are some wealthy
individuals,” she said. “I’m not one of them…”
But according to her Personal Financial Disclosures
filed in advance of her 2012 Senate campaign, she
has something in excess of $14.5 million in
accumulated wealth, had income in excess of $700,000
in her last year before being elected, and lives in
a house valued at more than $5 million. But as for
the wealthy, she’s “not one of them.”
Recently, lamenting the plight of the poor, Warren
noted, “My brother lives on his Social Security.
That’s about $1,100 a month. $13,200 a year.” Well,
perhaps she should split her income with her
brother, and donate the rest of her assets to
charity.
In another fine example of deceptive rhetoric,
Warren regurgitated her own version of Obama’s “You
didn’t build that” insult to entrepreneurs
across the nation. According to Warren, “There is
nobody in this country who got rich on their own.
Nobody. You built a factory out there – good for
you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to
market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired
workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were
safe in your factory because of police forces and
fire forces that the rest of us paid for. Now look.
You built a factory and it turned into something
terrific or a great idea – God bless! Keep a hunk of
it. But part of the underlying social contract is
you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next
kid who comes along.”
Of course Warren, like Clinton and Obama, has never
built anything but her investment portfolio, and
refuses to acknowledge that successful entrepreneurs
already pay 80% of federal and state taxes – a
violation of “the underlying social contract” which
should imply flat taxation. Additionally, America’s
corporations pay the highest tax rates among the 33
industrialized nations. But Democrats never let
facts get in the way of their classist political
agenda, because their only real power is the ability
to redistribute wealth to their constituents. And
look what their so-called “Great
Society” has gotten them.
So, why does it matter that Warren is as
hypocritical about her wealth as Clinton?
Because she is a far smarter and more articulate
Leftist than Clinton, and her
policy positions mirror those of Obama, falling
well to the left of Clinton.
She is the ideological heir apparent to Obama’s “Imperial
Presidency,” and like Obama, she is a
certifiable socialist – a rising star among the
New
Democratic Party statists, who have infested the
once-noble Democrat Party. Obama ran to the left
of Clinton in the 2008 Democrat presidential
primary, and Warren will do the same in the 2016
primary.
This doesn’t mean Warren is a presidential shoo-in.
Indeed, she has said that she’s not running at all
in 2016. But her performance at the “Nutroots
Nation” convention last week certainly resembled the
launch of a presidential bid, as she laid out her
11 Commandments of Progressivism.
If Warren runs, she would be a more formidable
general election opponent than Clinton. She would
also do a better job of rallying
female voters – and female voters have elected
every Democrat president since Kennedy.
In 1797, John Adams wrote, “If an election is to be
determined by a majority … procured by a party
through artifice or corruption, the Government may
be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of
the nation for the national good.” And that
describes the
Democratic Party today.
Leftist Leading Ladies
P.S. Despite Warren’s reassertion in an upcoming
book that she has “native American ancestry,” that
lie is still just that. Honest Injun.
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