  Am I the only one who finds it passing strange that in this particular election season we will be subjected once more to the usual rant from the Left about the evils of wealth exactly at the moment they themselves put onto the stage the likes of urlLink George Soros , urlLink Teresa Heinz Kerry , and - in fact - both ends of the urlLink Democratic Ticket ?
Voltaire once said "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere," and this can be applied to us all at one time or another. Make no mistake about that. If I were to list the dogmas I once fervently thought held the final truth for the world and mankind as we know it here on this website... I think the readership would be justified in walking away breathless. Or amused. Which ever came first. Children have a talent for orgiastic spurts of rhetoric, but in my observation (having come out of the 60s) I knew that at the end of my "proprty is bullshit" speech I was at least going to get laid, for cryn-out-loud! Politics was different then... (Sigh)... With the sputterings and failures of socialist statism the world over, and the Free Love Movement now tottering towards a new meaning for the word sixties (ahem), screaming about fat cats really doesn't get you laid anymore.
Not only that, but while the vocal rank and file are out on the stump bemoaning the inequities of wealth in a society that still hasn't corrected the problems of this that and the other, because wealth is concentrated amongst a rarified few who can ignore so forth and so on... the funding for the airwaves for this rhetoric and the figureheads they put forward into public view are - themselves - some of the richest people American politics has ever seen. And the funny thing about it is - they're not going to let you redistribute their wealth either. Because even though they're in the same party; it still isn't yours. urlLink MORE… 
